Last Duffer meeting in October was held at Pat's - it should have been here at Ty Nant, but unfortunately the river Teifi decided to pay us a call a couple of weeks ago, so access was a bit difficult... Compare this picture with the heading photo.
 This was mid afternoon - by six it had reached the house, but too dark to take pictures.

 Next morning:

This was taken the morning after the flood, when the water had receded. You can see the watermark on the garage wall... We are normally 25 foot above the river level. Car and carpets written off, but we were much more fortunate than a lot of other residents.

Back to ChufferDuffers - this blog is about model railways, after all.

The diesel loco that you saw in the last post now boasts a cab. Pat has been busy cutting and glueing Plasticard this past week, and showed us his efforts in place on the  Maes y Gof layout. It has yet to have a roof and a paint job, but it runs superbly, and can be seen in action on Sunday November 18th at the Hermon Model Exhibition.

 Dai the guard is a bit non-plussed, wondering how the engine arrived without a driver

One other victim of the flood was the Teifi Gorge layout - never thought the Teifi would affect it!
The two village boards were stored standing on end on 2" battens - not enough - the water came up a foot. I dried them off in the sunshine 'apres le deluge' and they don't look too bad. I'll test the electrics in the next week or so and hopefully we can show it at Roger's Expo on the 18th.

Hope to see you there,
Shaun.

Time, as ever marches on, and before you know it another month has kicked the bucket... October already...
This Chuffer post would seem to be devoted to Colin, and the Herrington Light Industrial Co., as he seems to be the only one producing stuff at the moment - though Pat is in the proccess of turning out a diesel loco for Maes Y Gof (more of that in a moment)

At our last get-together Col opened up his model box (A margerine container that he uses to hold the latest masterpiece):

  to reveal a water tower for St Dogmaels station, on the Teifi Gorge:

It contains realistic water, and all the necessary controls and valves that are required to dispense water to thirsty locomotives.
Around the back is an array of fire irons and shovels:

I forgot to include something for scale comparison, but I just measured the wooden handled spade, and it is 3/4" high...
The tower is yet to be placed on the layout, but we will be meeting here next week, so I hope to have the layout up here in the workshop for a trial run prior to Rogers Exhibition at Hermon in November.

Other products from the HLI factory - this loco finally came out of the paint shop:

Yet another one to join Colin's stable of 009 motive power. He is threatening to build an 009 layout of his own, as there is no more room on the Teifi Gorge!

Pat brought along the Diesel engine that he is constructing (no photos yet - maybe next week) for Colin to have a go at constructing a cab for it. So to finish, here is a pic of the master at work...

Hwyl Fawr.