Good evening.

Just one lonely post for this Month. We've had two Chuffer meetings and a Cardi-Bach Society get-together, plus we exhibited!!  more of that later.

The Cardi-Bach meeting went well, with a station PowerPoint presentation, and a couple of old movies including a never-seen-before 16mm film of the Ffestiniog. A very enjoyable evening all round. Next one will be on Tuesday May the 3rd, 7:30 pm at the Pen-Y-Bont in Llanglydwen. Everyone welcome!

Chuffers met here at Pentrecagal last week, and we packed up our Teifi Gorge layout into Pat's VW van ready for transporting down to Pembroke Dock the following Saturday.

Not a lot of show and tell last week, just the horse-drawn carts that Pat has been making. After finishing the scratch-built '0' gauge that we featured in our last post, he then decided to build the original '00' one that he used as a guide for the big one.

Here they both are:

A closer view of the commercial 'bought' kit:

For the larger one Pat went to the trouble of making luggage to go on the roof of the carriage, using off-cuts of Plasticard and modelling putty.

As well as a monogrammed gun case, there is also a tapestry carpet bag, and believe it or not, the large trunk even has a padlock:

There are going to be passengers, but at the moment they are still being painted, as is Colin's latest loco, that we have shown in the last couple of posts.

Up to the spare bedroom, and we played for a while on the 7mm NG layout, still not named yet. I have done a bit more to the scenics, with a bit of undergrowth, a couple of walls and a fence.

Also there is a plan to have a road running above and behind the houses at the back.

Couple of pictures of progress:

Two taxis waiting in the station yard:

The layout operates really well, and we are considering the possibility of exhibiting it, should any venue crop up, hopefully next year.

Which segues nicely on to the next subject of this post - Saturdays exhibition put on by Penfro Modellers, at the Heritage Museum in Pembroke Dock. We left Cilgerran at 7:30, to get to the 'Dock for an 8:30 setting-up time.

All went well until we powered up... nothing moved! twenty minutes later however, and it was all sorted. The Teifi Gorge then ran impeccably for the rest of the day, and proved really popular - possibly because apart from Dave Howarths trams, we were the only exhibit that moved (and the only railway layout) the Penfro boys are mainly boats, planes, and military models.

 

Here we are set-up:

 

 

Another Cardi-Bach member was also there - Roger Howells from Hermon came along with his model planes and military layout:

The TV behind him is a bit disconcerting, as it was showing a continual loop of still pictures of old Pembroke dock. I imagine Roger knows the Dock quite well by now...

A good time was had by all, and we were packed up and home by five thirty - tired but happy. The first show for a couple of years!

I'll finish with a video clip of the Teifi Gorge...

Thank you all for your indulgence - Cherrio,

Shaun.