Met here again last night, as we need to crack on with Crymmych Arms. Pat had invested in a pair of 'Xuron' rail cutters - we had always ignored these in the past... "Ten quid just to cut a bit of rail? Pah!!"
What a revelation they turned out to be. Cut rail like a knife through butter. No more struggling with the Dremel, bits of disc going everywhere, ragged edges. Well done Pat!
He also put some crew into his 3D printed locos:
Colin put his hand into his bag and pulled out the finished Glyn Valley look-alike:
The only trouble is he told me that I have to do the painting!!
Not a task I'm looking forward to - it seems such a pity to spoil something so exquisite.
Preliminaries over, it was down to a bit of grafting. I had put up the Crymmych boards all ready to continue with the track laying, and managed to join the three boards together. Work progressed quite quickly, with, to come up with an old cliche - 'many hands make light of work':
After a couple of hours things were coming along swimmingly - we even ran a test loco along the points to check, and it all passed with flying colours.
The layout towards the end of the evening:
Shortly after this we called a halt, and repaired to the social end of the room for some light refreshment.
All in all a productive session.
This morning after clearing up the scene of mayhem and chaos, this is Crymmych Arms so far:
No Chuffers next week, as we have a Cardi-Bach Society meeting.
Bye for now,
Shaun.
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