Good afternoon everyone... slight dusting of snow last night - 2 or 3 inches, but it's fading fast. Better than the torrential rain we had at the start of the week. Llechryd bridge under water once again, and a lot of flooding in Carmarthen too.

Anyway, that's not affecting the Chuffers, I'm happy to say. Pictures have arrived this weekend from both Pete and Colin. 

Before that, I've changed the heading picture, continuing the castle theme. Anyone know it? (still in Pembrokeshire) The last one was easy - Cilgerran.

I've noticed that when I change the picture, it's changed historically, so the new picture appears in all previous posts for some odd reason...

Back to the Chufferduffers. Over in the Taf Valley at Login, Pete has been busy with the static grass, and the snow is rapidly disappearing from Woody Bay:

Additions to the farmyard, which is in the top left-hand corner are a chicken coop:

(this in a scale of 1:87 but blends in well)

To give you an idea of the size, each division on that cutting mat is 10mm, so the coop is a shade over one and a half inches long!

It is a Czech kit, laser cut, the same as this next model that Pete has made of a pig sty:

Also for the farm, Pete has scratch built a barn, using card and printed paper overlay, and has modified a Hornby resin chapel.

The paper overlay sheets are downloaded from Scalescenes, and the Czech kits come from a company called 'Model Scene' found on Ebay.

Colin has not been idle during lockdown either. He's been busy making loading gauges for his N gauge layout, based on GWR prototypes:

Once again we are looking at 10mm squares...

And here are the gauges pictured against a magazine photo of the originals:

The works overhead gantry crane has been completed, and is shown below in action above a scratch built Class 517-

Which is pictured here during its construction on a Dapol 14xx chassis, prior to going to the paint shop:

To illustrate the difference in scale of Colin's scratch building, he took a picture of an N gauge Locomotive on the same piece of track as a 009 scale engine that he built:

The one on the left is a modified Farish large prairie tank, while the right hand one, the 009 is called 'Enfys', Welsh for rainbow. Here she is during construction, and then following on a shot of the completed engine.

I guess that's about it for this edition - two in quick succession. My goodness me...

 

Cherrio, Shaun.