Met at Charles' house last Tuesday and had a very convivial evening, as we usually do. Very good pizza with a lot of green chilli, aubergine stuffed with mince, and amongst the tracklements was a very good lime and chilli pickle - from B & M, we think.
For 'show and tell' Colin produced another of his excellent locos, this time on a Minitrix chassis that I picked up at Shepton Mallet back in February.
Whilst at Colins a few weeks ago, I managed to get a quick shot of his array of scratch built 009 locomotives - these are extra to the stable of engines that he built for the Teifi Gorge layout (another six, at the last count)
Last week a forum friend, Ben Newland paid a quick visit - Ben models in both 009 and 00, and presently lives in Dresden, but is a Cardigan boy. He got married a year or so ago in Mwnt church, on the outskirts of Cardigan
This is Mwnt church, taken just as the sun was setting last Saturday.
As a bit of nostalgia, and a thank you present to his wife for tolerating his railway modelling, Ben constructed a model of the church, and incorporated it in his layout (still under construction, as all layouts are...)
Here is a snapshot of Ben's model that I grabbed from Photobucket. I'm sure Ben wont mind me sharing:
Back to business in hand - Crymmych Arms.
Pat has made a model of the goods shed, but has to glaze the windows before letting me take pics of it. Colin is forging ahead with the signal box, and I finally got around to sorting the station out:
Next meeting we have we hope to set up and test Cardigan and Boncath, as we are taking them along to Cilgerran School in May for an exhibition that Emyr is organising.
Until the next time,
Shaun.
(Who sang that? - Daniel O'donnell, to save you pondering. Sad or what...)
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