Hi everyone.

First blog of 2022, and I'm combining it with the last one of 2021 - as we didn't really have enough from our final meeting in December to make it worth while going on line. We met here at Pentrecagal, but apart from eating, drinking, and watching some DVDs, there wasn't a lot to report ( Hungarian goulash and Chilean Merlot - but that is by-the-by )

Now into the New Year, we convened at Patrick's last night, and had a bit of a show-and-tell, as we usually do to kick the evenings off.

My efforts were to add a bit more to the Cardigan Station for the N gauge layout that will be down at the Heritage Centre in Login.

Engine shed is a bit out of proportion, but the idea was to just give a representation:

Taking a break from railway modelling I had a go at building a 1/24 Kenworth truck, from a plastic kit that was a bargain on Ebay. White plastic, so a lot of black spraying was involved...

Still a remove away from railways, Colin is progressing rapidly with his 2mm scale fairground attractions, and the steam Yachts are beginning to look really good.

Here we've got the basic structure with the steam engine in place:

and it has a canopy over it:

The maestro has also been busy with the 009 scale stuff, and produced this lovely little 0-4-0 locomotive - 'because I had a spare chassis'...

I just don't know what to say. There are not enough superlatives left to describe Colin's talent (though he does tend to fall asleep halfway through the evening!) (which last night at Pat's was homemade pizza, salad, stuffed olivs and hot sausage rolls. Oh, and a Fitou, and a  Cabernet-Sauvignon...) 

Pat is continuing with the 3mm layout, and has refurbished and weathered a couple of mineral wagons, one shown below:

As an aside, in the last post I showed you how we spent Christmas Day out in Saudi-Arabia. I shaved off my beard, as it was too itchy in the heat (having won the bet) and the following week we had a day off, so had an afternoon snorkeling off the reef in the Red Sea.

It was a harsh life in the oil industry back in the Eighties...

 

 

 

We finish this post with a video of a 3mm Brittania going around Pats 'built from the box' 3 millimeter layout. Mike, this ones for you!

Thanks for watching.

Cherrio'

Shaun.