It's been a busy week for the Chuffers. On Sunday Patrick, Mary and I went up to Machynlleth to the Annual Corris Model Railway Exhibition. Not as many layouts as there have been in previous years, but entertaining all the same.
I didn't take any overall views, just a couple of engine pics and cameos.
Some 009 locos to start:
On to bigger stuff.
This was rather a good depiction of an engine cab and crew:
7mm scale (0 gauge) of course.
The same layout had some interesting cameos - one in particular was of a photographer conducting a shoot for a gentlemans magazine. Taking place in the privacy of a walled garden...
You can just make it out to the left of the yellow cottage.
For the older and more lascivious amongst you, here is a closer view:
Moving swiftly on...
There was a good exhibition of steam driven radio controlled engines and trains.
Here we have one of the locomotives:
Going back down the scale, our friend Martin that we met at the Bala expo was showing one of his 009 layouts, so I took a quick movie:
Thats it for the Machynlleth show!
The following day I took a trip to the Internal Fire museum at Tanygroes, a few miles outside of Cardigan. Dozens of static diesel engines on display, many of them working, and displayed as if they were actually in their original environment.
Large and small - here are just a couple:
Being a bank holiday, the steam engines were working, and here is a short video of a triple expansion pumping engine:
On to last nights meeting.
Met at Colins, and we start as usual with 'show-and-tell'.
Pat kicked off with the latest edition of the funeral bier and coffin. The corpse has now been painted, and the coffin and lid lined with satin:
Stiff as a corpse...
Colin then showed us some wheels that he is in the process of making for another of his Showmans Steam Engines, one of which is pictured here together with the partly built wheels:
And a final view of the back of the engine, complete with driver:
(Note the pound coin to reference the size...)
Finished the evening with a supper of pork pies and Mariannes superb salad whilst watch some of the old 'Railway Roundabout' DVDs.
Most enjoyable evening.
Nos da,
Shaun.
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