This Tuesday we descended on Pats, and managed to catch the Chief boiler-maker hard at work in Chessboard Engineering's workshop. Our lensman was quick on the draw with his trusty Brownie and managed to snap Patrick hard at work putting inside detail in his Railbus:
The Railbus now sports seats along each side and at the back:
Plus there is a dashboard for the driver (no steering wheel, obviously...) Yet to be fitted is the drivers seat, and an appropriate person sitting in it. Also a variety of passengers.
Some of the aforementioned people can be seen here in various states of colour, and some waiting for limbs to be fitted (the limbs in question can be seen on the left of the picture, and to the left of the figure lying down):
After loosely fitting the roof Pat put it into service on the Maes Y Gof layout to give a demo of its running ability. I still haven't mastered the art of adding movies to the blog, so you'll have to be content with still photos:
The jury is out on whether the guard is talking to a small cat or a large rat... He appears to be admonishing it for infringing some railway bylaw.
I took the opportunity to grab a photograph of Pats weathered tank wagon, tucked up in the top corner by the goods shed:
Also while the camera was out and the layout lights were on I took a close up of Evans the smithy hard at work in the gefail:
No 'show-and-tells' from either Colin or myself this week, so we retired to the works canteen to view a few DVDs and indulge in some home-made duck pate with hot french bread and salad, plus a tincture of French red.
All in all a most pleasant evening!
Toodle-pip,
Shaun.
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