First Cardi-Bach Society meeting of the New Year will be next Wednesday, January the 15th, 7pm in the Museum at Login Station. John Ewart is coming to give a quick chat on the latest equipment he has for helping group publicity, and then we will be having a railway evening, showing DVDs and slides relating to aspects of GWR operations.
Hope to see you all there.

On to Chuffer business - its been quite a while since the last post, but quite a while since the last Chuffers get-together, but some chap's 2019th birthday celebrations and an alteration in the calender warranting even more celebrations sort of interrupted our gathering...

No matter - all that's in the past (at least for another eleven months, anyway).
We met here at Llechryd last night. Still a bit too cold and dark in the conservatory to do any serious layout work, so it was just show-and-tell really.

First up was Colins contribution - not to the new layout (still to have a name) but something towards his 009 efforts - an open workers truck, complete with workers, who all look related in some way...

I think they are wearing safety helmets, rather than similar hairstyles!


My efforts were altered 'Matchbox Yesteryear' vehicles which I mentioned in the last post. Taken apart, paint stripped, and then resprayed and put back together.
Still a bit more detailing yet to do. :-

And:

I have deliberately left Pat until last, as he has been the most prolific of us. Before retiring he never had a lot of time for modelling, but by George (who was George...?) he is making up for it now.

As a new edition to the 7mm Narrow Gauge layouts, he is making a travelling 'Greasy Spoon' van, complete with interior.
It is still work in progress, but here is a taster:

When you remove the front, this is what is revealed:

Closer inspection shows the tea urn and the stove:

Quite what the GPO mail bag is doing there we have yet to establish...


Finally, after having seen the 'Gravity Run' on the Ffestiniog show that C-B member Phil gave to us a couple of months ago, Pat was so impressed that he made his own!
A small motor is hidden in the leading slate wagon, and is complete with a brake man sitting on the slates.
We managed a circuit of the layout, at rather more than prototypical speed!!

As it was Llechryd, that meant only one thing - curry night!

No Chuffs next week, but Pats the following Tuesday.

Hwyl fawr,
Shaun.