Good morning. Well, it is morning as I'm writing this, though 'good' is exaggerating things somewhat.
Storm Ellen is currently rollicking her way through the county and already has hit the Login marquee that Peter hired out to the Shire farm. Pete is going to inspect the wreckage today...

I went over to Login last week with the plans for re-vamping the Cardi-Bach Museum and took the opportunity to keep in step with Peter's progress on his Lynton & Barnstaple layout.
It is still covered in snow, but contours are gradually appearing.

Here is a shot of Woody Bay:

And an opposite view of the goods sheds and siding:

You will notice that the backscene has been renewed, as the previous one developed wrinkles (like so many of us do) and nothing could be done to eliminate them. However all is now well.




Moving around the layout there is the start of a farm, made from a Scalescenes kit. Ignore the barn and the terrace in the background, they are just there to get some idea of positions.

Further around we get to Lynton, yet to receive a coating of 'snow' but already the infrastructure is in place and shaping up nicely :

A couple more vehicles have appeared on the scene - an AA van and a traction engine with caravan:

Being confronted by a belligerent ram, by the looks of things....












I mentioned at the start of this post a plan to revamp the Cardi-Bach Museum. We have had a chat amongst ourselves, and this is what we have come up with.
An end to end depiction of the line from Whitland to Cardigan running around the walls - in N gauge, and not quite as detailed as the present layouts, which although authentic representations were more model railway orientated than historic exhibits. These will be preserved elsewhere.

Below is a scale model of how we envisage the new arrangement to look:

ChufferDuffers convened at Colin's this week, and we enjoyed pork pies, sausage rolls and Marianne's excellent salad
A visit upstairs to Colin's workshop to see the latest 'Dolgoch' locomotive:

Another view of Herrington Light Industries incredible workmanship, this time with a coin of the realm included to give an idea of the size of this model.

Colin had also made a small slate flat to go behind the new Hudswell loco that has joined the Teifi Gorge stable.

And as we like shots of work benches, I could not resist a couple of pictures of Colin's!!!

'Order comes out of chaos' - supposedly said by the philosopher Nietzsche...


Nothing more for this post, so I'll bid you good-bye...
Thanks for logging on,
Shaun.