I have to offer apologies to all the fans of ChufferDuffers for the paucity of blog postings over the past few weeks - It's been due mainly to nothing much happening! (apart from a bit of fuss over a dear old lady in a sparkly hat and her dysfunctional family)

We have had meetings, but not much modelling. A lot of good eating, and copious quaffing of red wine, but not a lot of attention paid to railways, except for watching DVDs and Youtube...

Anyway, back to the here and now. Patrick and Mary are off to Burton-on-Trent on Friday to the 0 Gauge exhibition, where on Saturday they will be showing Pats 7mm layout, ' Gorsaf Maes Y Gof ', which we have featured here on Chuffers, and has been successfully shown at several venues over the years. We wish them a safe journey, and a good time at the Expo.

The Cardi-Bach Society are meeting at a members farm on the 14th, where Derrick has a large layout in a barn, and also a 20 foot 0 gauge layout of the old Aberaeron station. Hopefully pictures of that in the next posting.

Last Night Chuffers met at Colin's, and this posting is unashamedly devoted to Col's work, which we all know and admire.

To kick off, he has made a guards van, ostensibly to feature on the Teifi Gorge. Here it is in it's raw state:

 

 

This is barely an inch high, and yet he managed to glaze the ducket...

Then it was off to the paint shop - 

 

 

Last night Colin had his test loop set up, together with a selection of his scratch built 009 locomotives:

 

 

In particular, notice the white plastic rectangle over on the left.

Here is a close up:

It is a very tiny motor and chassis, which can be made up as a loco using the kit pictured below. Whether Colin will get the kit, or make his own version is yet to be decided.

Here is a short clip showing the motor going around the test track:

Quite impressive for it's size!

Also on show-and-tell was this N gauge platform newsagents kiosk, laser cut, and already stained.

Finishing this post with a picture of Colin's take on the famous 'Dolgoch' locomotive that epitomizes the well known Talyllyn  narrow gauge railway.

Cherrio,

Shaun.