Bank holiday looms, and as usual the weather changes! Hopefully it won't be too bad in North Wales as Pat and Mary have headed that way to exhibit 'Gorsaf Gof' at the Bala weekend exhibition - and incorporate a weeks holiday in the area.

We had the final Chuffer's May meeting on Tuesday at Colins, where we had a test run of different controllers on part of Col's N gauge layout, though the test locos were 009.

No definitive conclusions were reached, though the commercial Gaugemaster scored quite well.
We decided in the end that our home-brewed controllers were more than adequate...

This is the smallest that Colin has built, using just one transistor!

The loco that I had pictures of but didn't know what it was in the last post is a Hunslet. Further work has been done, and Colin tells me it is loosely based on 'Lady Jane', one of the Hunslets that saw service on the Velinheli narrow gauge quarry network in North Wales

Here is a more detailed close-up, still a bit more to add.

On the 'Teifi Gorge' layout, a small terrace of cottages and a Merchants store have been added to the Cilgerran end of the layout:

Meanwhile, down at Login, our worthy Society Chairperson returned from his holiday in foreign parts, and wanted to make up for not being around to help with the building - so he and myself went down to Login and together with Pete started on insulating the inside walls:

We almost completed, but were three panels of insulation short. However Pete started to apply the ply-wood covering and had done three-quarters of one wall before we called it a day.

Many thanks to Dawn for the egg and bacon rolls, shortbread biscuits and tea and coffee that she provided for our lunch - also thanks to Marianne for the pizza and salad at Chuffers on Tuesday.

Off to Bala on Sunday to see how Pat is getting on. Hopefully pics of the event in the next blog!