The weekly meeting of Chuffers - We convened here at Llechryd last night, just Colin pat and myself. We are sorely missing Chas, hopefully his health will improve and he can once again attend our little soirees.
No time last night for niceties, it was into the conservatory and crack on with the Login fiddle-yard. We had enough track and space to have three stock tracks. Here are a couple of shots of the lads hard at it:

The conservatory is great for the space it affords us, but unfortunately the lighting is limited. We have to rely on table lamps and a twin lamp pedestal fitting. We managed though, and we were more than satisfied with the result:

The missing sleepers are not going to be an issue, as this section will not be on public view (and quite frankly we could not be arsed bothered to stick them back in...) Next job is fetch the Login Layout from Login and have a trial run.

Other highlight last night was a 'show and tell' from Chessboard Engineering Works. If you recall from the last post (scroll down a bit if you've forgotten) Pat was making a rail-bus from a donor Lima chassis. Grafting non-stop until the small hours, Pat has done stirling work to produce this:

Still work-in-progress, the roof has to be finished and dummy mudguards added. More pics:

There is actually a fan behind that radiator grill...

I trundled over to Login today to visit our associate member Peter, as he had lots of progress to report on his portrayal of the Lynton & Barnstable Narrow Gauge Railway.
One of the stations he is depicting is 'Woody Bay' and he had a Bachmann resin model. However it looked under-sized, so he made a card mock-up to 4mm scale:

The difference is obvious!
Here it is roughly in place on the embroyo layout:

The line leaving Woody Bay drops off to the right, and true to scale Pete has tried to match this, with his line terminating in a fiddle yard:

The fiddle yard is seated on rolling shelf castors, and slides back and forth holding several lines of stock. This is the tray (without any track fitted, of course )

Peter had set up a loop of track to act as a running in circuit for the new L & B locos, and so far they have all behaved very well, though the track has to be perfectly flat to avoid wheel slip. Immaculate slow running, but they are sensitive to the slightest gap in the track. More updates from the Login branch of the ChufferDuffers as and when. 

After our evenings work we repaired to the dining room for railway videos and Mexican enchilladas that I had made, together with the usual embrocation. Unfortunately we lost track of time, so my abject apologies to the Chuffers respective wives for keeping the menfolk out til gone eleven...
Sorry!

Next week at Pats - by then he will have probably started another loco...

G'night,
Shaun.