Nothing to report regarding the Cardi-Bach, though I did spend Saturday and Sunday afternoons doing curator duties in the Heritage building, so that Peter could help Dawn in the teashop without having to go backwards and forwards showing people around the Cardi-Bach displays.
Two entertaining afternoons, fielding numerous questions about the old railway lines that served West wales.

Tuesday evening we had a Chuffer meeting at Patricks, where he showed off the finished Kerr Stuart diesel. I managed to take a short video clip (complete with Colin chattering in the background...)

 After a successful run around Pat brought it to a halt and I was able to take a couple of pictures of the inside of the cab - a strange feature of the K-S loco was the radiator - inside the cab...

Staying with the 7mm NG, the mobile crane was tucked into a siding:

And Pat has finally done a poster showing the animals that are in various places around the layout.
This has proved a big hit with young and old alike, trying to spot them!

A pizza and a glass or two to finish the evening while we watched a couple of VHS videos on the Great western Railway. Apparently there were other railway companies, but we try to avoid talking about them!

'Til next week,
Shaun.

The blog is now incorporating the Cardi-Bach Society - more than obvious from the totem or hotdog heading!

With regard to the C-B, we went down to Login last Thursday to help Pete put up the marquee ready for block bookings at the Teashop, and also in readiness for the Gala Weekend.
Couple of pics of the marquee coming together:

Gradually we got there:

and finally finished:

Yesterday I 'borrowed' the layout lights from the Teifi Gorge layout and tried them out on the layout displays in the Museum:

They look better in reality, as the camera is compensating for low light, and I couldn't be arsed bothered to adjust it. Definitely the road to go down, so that is something for us to look into. Also ordered 20 small T-shirts for junior customers. They should be available for the big Weekend.

On to Chuffer jottings
We met here at Llechryd last Tuesday, project for the evening was to fit the electric turntable to the StDogmaels end of the Teifi Gorge layout. Proving a little more difficult than first thought, so there are no pictures of the ensuing mayhem...

Instead a couple of 'show-and-tells'. Colin had made an overhead gantry for engine overhaul, to go somewhere in the Kilgerran yard:

Whilst Patrick showed us the progress on the new 7mm NG diesel loco that we highlighted in the last post:

We repaired to the dining room to finish the evening with chilli-con-carne and the usual embrocation, and watched a collection of silly videos from Youtube...

Next week at Pats, when no doubt the loco will be finished!

Hwyl fawr,
Shaun.

Nothing to report on the Cardi-Bach front this week, it's all ChufferDuffer modelling.
We met at Colins last night, and he had a couple of things to show us.
First of all he has finished the Herrington Light Industries Patent Electric Turntable No.2, which is scheduled to be fitted to the StDogmaels end of the TGR next week.
Here is a very moving image of it:

and fresh from the paint shop, a very pristine tram loco, which for the first few months of its life was looking very dishevelled, due to my botched attempt at painting. Colin however resurrected it:

Moving up a couple of gauges, Pat had brought along his 7mm NG crane, which you may remember in last weeks post trundling around 'Gorsaf Maes Y Gof'. It has now been suitably weathered, and acquired a name plate and horn:

There is also yet another embryo addition to the 7mm motive power stable. Here shown in its infancy:

The motor being used to drive it is a Mashima, now as rare as a hens tooth, as they have stopped manufacturing them (motors, that is. Not hens teeth...).

 

Our last image for this week shows a couple of oil drums on stands, once again the work of Pat, to be placed on the new &mm NG layout... (still being discussed)

We repaired to the lounge for video entertainment, with Pork Pies and excellent salad prepared for us by Marianne, Colins wife.

Another enjoyable Chufferduffers evening draws to a close...

Nighty-night,

Shaun.

No ChufferDuffer meeting this week, as we had a Cardi-Bach Society meeting last night, and we thought two evenings in one week was taking socialising too far.
So - a brief report on the C-B meeting. There will be a more fullsome report going out to members via e-mail later, but here below is a little taste of our meeting.

We had a good gathering of members, with a head count of eleven, which is good for our meetings!

Picture below of members around the table, as it were:

To the left hand side of the picture is our latest member, Michael. We can only hope he found the evening entertaining, if not bewildering!
Empty platters at the end of the table bear witness to the popularity of Dawns chiabatta pizzas...
Derek brought along a map showing the water course that supplied Glogue tower and tank. We did have an evenings walk last month to locate it, but some members got lost, and only Roy, Derek and Roger actually found it, the rest of us wandering round in ever increasing circles...

Derek explaining to Roy the route they took:

To end the evening we had a couple of slide shows of stations and engines on the Cardi-Bach line, taken over a wide spread of years, some pictures several of us had not seen before.
Roy providing a very knowledgeable commentary, and Thomas expertly operating the slide show.

Next meeting will coincide with the Login Festival, July 6th and 7th - hope you can make it!
And if you would like to join our little Society, please talk to one of us at the Festival - you would be more than welcome.

To end with, a little bit of Chuffer modelling news - I went over to Llangadog to visit Mike, our distant member on Tuesday, when he and his wife Judith were kind enough to share their evening meal with me. Mike showed me the progress that he has made on the mega-layout - you may remember it from a previous post:

This is the state of play at the present moment, photo taken from a similar position:

Mike assures me we will have it up and running without any problems, as soon as we can all get over there to assist...!

Thank you all for visiting,
Shaun.