Good evening everyone. I can say that, as I'm writing this in the evening. You may be reading at some other time. It matters not - at least you are reading it...

Last blogs featured castle was of course Picton Castle - not a castle in the true sense, but a fortified home. Called a castle nevertheless. Mind you, it was originally built as a defensible building around the time of the Flemish occupancy of Pembrokeshire, but when the Phillipp's (that's their spelling) inherited it from the wogans it became residential.

Lets move across to Carmarthenshire again and give you an easy one:

No prizes for guessing this one!

The ChufferDuffers held their first meeting for several months here at Pentrecagal - after a quick tour of the work-shop above the garage we moved up to a spare bedroom where I had the Teifi Gorge layout set up.

With Pat and Colins help we moved the layout further into the room so that we could try out the Llechryd extension for suitability

Quite successful, although we still have to work on connecting the boards together for us to get a continuous run of track.

A couple of pictures of how the completed layout will look:

With a bit of persuasion we managed to get a short video of the little train rounding the rather tight curve and pulling into the station:

Colin had brought along his 'Dolgoch' 009 scratch built:

and we gave it a run from Cilgerran through the Gorge down to the quay-side at St Dogmaels:

The latest developments on the Lynton and Barnstaple (Login version) were sent through by e-mail from Pete.

He bought a laser cut kit of a stable/barn which turned out to be low-relief. Copying the basic carcass onto card, Peter made up a most commendable building that will be a smithy with attached stables.

Here is the kit:

 

 

 

Which made up into this:   

 

 

Pete then fettled it and gave it stone cladding, courtesy of Scalescenes printed papers, and here we have the finished article:

 

 

The Chuffer meeting concluded in the time honoured fashion with a Thai green chicken curry and suitable liquid refreshment to accompany it.

If no further lockdowns appear, the next meeting in two weeks at Patricks.

Cheerio,

Shaun.