A week or two has gone past - I have to think what has happened...
We met here at Ty-Nant a couple of weeks ago, and managed to do a bit to Crymmych arms.
Cleaned up the mess that was left on the rails after my ballasting, connected up the two side boards, and had a test run with a pannier and a coach:

Colin at the controls!
The layout is still in bit of a state - hopefully we will have it in some presentable order in a couple of months, as we have promised to show it at several exhibitions this year.

I acquired some Foamex board to create a backscene, and this is roughly how it will be placed. Not fixed at the moment, as I am hoping that Annie will paint a suitable North Pembrokeshire landscape for us.

Underneath, the board looks like this, with most of the wiring and the point motors protected by removeable panels.

The following Saturday Patrick and I went to Shepton Mallet where the South West Narrow Gauge Club held their 25th and final exhibition. Over 70 narrow gauge layouts were on display! Several good videos are on Youtube, one of which has a very brief shot of Pat and yours truly.
Excellent day out, and I managed to acquire three second hand loco chassis for Colin to work his magic on.

The latest examples of Col's work are pictured below, when he produced them for show-and-tell when we met at Charles house last Tuesday.

They are now off to the paint shop!

Tarra,
Shaun.

Couple of weeks to catch up on. I can't believe how quickly time seems to go - first month of 2017 gone already...

Last weeks meeting was held at Charles' house, where we were treated to an eclectic collection of videos gathered from the internet, followed by a delicious home-made pate and salad:

For 'show-and-tell' Colin brought along his latest Glyn Valley style tram loco:

 

Pictured below being admired by Pat:

 

Moving on a week, Tuesday saw us gathering at Colins - if you can call three people a 'gathering' - Chas had to take a trip to North Wales with his son.

Col had set up his N gauge layout. No name for it yet, and we are desperately trying to get him to exhibit it. It really deserves a wider audience.

A couple of shots showing the overall layout:

Moving in closer, a few close-up scenes:

 

Leighton hall has just pulled in with a passenger train from Paddington:

 Whilst outside the station a couple of taxis wait for passengers:

Two steam engines make their way to a local rally:

and a couple of pilot locos are on shed, with the coaling tower in the background:

For 'show-and-tell' the latest progress with Colins scratch built locos:

We finished the evening in the time honoured fashion...

No Chuffers next week, as we have a Cardi-Bach meeting.