Three of us met at Colins on Tuesday, Charles couldn't be with us as he was feeling under the weather - he's going to miss next week too, as it's a Cardi-Bach Society meeting instead of ChufferDuffers, but we wont have Patrick either, as he is shrugging off all responsibilities and swanning off to Ireland...
Anyway - last Tuesday. All centered around Colin really - I had a controller that wouldn't control, and I didn't know why, so Colin attempted to fix it. No quick fix... He is going to try and get it ready for the next exhibition. Bronwydd Village Hall on October 8th, it's the Carmarthen '0' gauge Societys show, and we have been invited to exhibit, even though we are 009 rather than 0.
With that coming up the Teifi Gorge loco stable is undergoing a clean-up, as they picked up quite a bit of dust and detritus from the six hours of operation the other day at Llwyncelyn Exhibition.
Mentioning gauges, Colin has yet another light hiding under his bushel (should be a Tun really, the amount of talent that is hidden)... He has been quietly beavering away at an N gauge layout, and I managed to get off a couple of pictures of it. We are trying to persuade him to exhibit when it's completed.
Practically everything you see has been scratch built, from card, paper, plastic... the tree foliage is bits of scouring pad, real coal in the coal bunker...
The roof lifts off the signal box down in the bottom left corner, and the picture below shows the interior. I put a Bic pen in front to give an idea of the scale:
We finished the evening in the time honoured fashion - wine, pizzas, sausage rolls and crisps (me on non-alcoholic lager as I had to drive home - roll on the next meeting at Llechryd...)
Thats all folks, more in a couple of weeks.
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