COLINS IN PRINT!!
Several weeks ago Colin penned an article on constructing narrow guage locomotives from scratch, and sent it off to the 009 Society Journal - they duly published it in the December edition - not only published it, but put one of Colins photos on the front cover!
The picture is a lot clearer than shown here, as this is a photo of a photocopy. Two page article inside with lots more pictures.
Unfortunately the Monthly magazine is only available to members of the 009 Society, but the exquisite little engines can be seen on our Teifi Gorge layout, when we exhibit it at various venues around West Wales. No more this year, regrettably, but this segues cleverly on to the next bit of reporting - The Modeling Exhibition put on by Roger Howells at Hermon last weekend.
Chufferduffers attended with no less than four layouts (three of our own, and the fourth belonging to Emyr)
The line-up on Sunday morning:
Here is the line up from the opposite end:
'Kilgerran' was purely static, as Emyr had to be elsewhere during the morning. Once again a lot of local interest was shown in the Cardi-Bach interpretation, particularly Crymych, with a lot of people from the area unaware of the history.
We had to convince audiences that the other two layouts were fictitious...
Here is 'Maes Y Gof' - Caught just at the moment when no train was in sight!
And 'Dyffryn Y Tyllau' having its public debut...
Pat and I were kept quite busy all morning, as Colin was doing organ duty at the church in Cilgerran, but joined us later in the afternoon.
Lots of familiar faces and friends, including Pete, Chris, Howie, Ken, and Tony, amongst others.
An excellent day all round, and thanks go to Roger and Ann for making the show a success.
Lots of superb modeling throughout the venue - too much really to post on here, but one item caught my eye - can you believe that this is a mere 8" long?....
Thats all for this post - I'm sorry to leave such a gap since the last one. I shall have to try harder!
Shaun.
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