Hello everyone - welcome to the blog. We are now well into November, and I've skipped past a couple of Chuffers meetings. Sorry! I shall try to catch up.

First though, we have had two Cardi-Bach Society meetings, the first for several months. Good to get together with members after all this time, and they were quite positive meetings. We are now on the way to Having a Cardi-Bach website. The template has been set up by John Ewart of PLANED in Narberth, and the youngest of our members, Thomas, has agreed to be web-master. More news as it develops...

In the Chuffers world, a little bit of progress has been made on the N gauge model of Cardigan, to eventually complete the layout in the museum depicting the line from Whitland to Cardigan. A much simplified rendition of  Cardigan with just a run-around loop and a siding off to the turntable.

Colin meanwhile has been beavering away at his 2mm scale fairground.

The moon-rocket ride is as good as completed, as can be seen in the following pictures:

The next attraction is going to be the 'Steam Yachts' - several pictures of this ride can be found ont'net - here is just one example:

So far Col has made the frame, basic yachts, and started on the steam engine that provided the power:

Here is a closer view of the start of the steam engine, together with a plan showing roughly how it was set up (Bic pen providing a scale)

My bad. The Bic pen is in this next picture showing the detail that Colin has put into this tiny engine:

Patrick, meanwhile has been busy making up kits of 00 gauge GWR wagons - in the last post I think I showed a picture of the white metal components - just to refresh memories, here they are:

And this is the wagon those pieces went together to produce:

Pat also put together a plastic kit of a similar wagon, and here we have the two of them on display:

For the Teifi Gorge layout, we have a rake of 3D printed slate wagons, purchased at a ridiculously low price on Ebay. Lacking wheels, but Colin found some spares, so we were able to get a rake of five wagons. Five more to go when we get wheels!

The bare wagon:

And here they are painted and fitted with rudimentary couplings:

 

That about winds up the chuffers activities for this month.

Thanks for following,

Hwyl fawr,

Shaun.