Hello fellow inmates! Welcome back - it's blog time once again, and unfortunately still nothing to report on the Cardi-Bach Society.

But the Chuffers have been active in their own quiet way.
If you remember Patrick was beavering away at building an Airfix Railbus in the last blog. I made a slight mistake - the seats were not part of the kit as I first thought, but ones that Pat had to make.

Since then he has fitted the 'bus out, complete with passengers; sent it to the paint shop, and got it up and running; albeit on a short length of track. Photos below.
Getting the pictures was quite a procedure, involving a clandestine exchange of files at the Berlin Wall Llechryd bridge, away from the prying eyes of PC plod.

Here they are:

A full frontal:

And an atmospheric evening shot:

Colin meanwhile wanted a Churchward Mogul engine for his N gauge layout.
(This is a real one....)

As there wasn't a reasonable kit available, and not wanting to waste valuable 'French Laughing Water' pennies on a commercial model, our lad decides to build his own...


Starting with the boiler,

Adds a body and a footplate:

Then all the necessary bits and bobs:

Makes a tender for it:

And after running it through the painting booth and adding transfers, it can be seen gently simmering outside of the layouts' engine shed...

Meanwhile I got on with preparing the extension to the Teifi Gorge layout, cutting out the contour for the river, and lining it:

and today I started making some of the hillsides:

I can't do much to it until we finalise a track plan, and the Gandy Dancers can get together and lay track.
And when, we wonder, in this current state of affairs will that be???

No movies this week, so I'll leave you with a picture of Colin spinning away at his lathe...

Cheerio for now,


Shaun.