2023!! January has come and gone, and here we are well into February. I don't think we have ever had such a long break between Chuffer postings.

I have to say that its mostly my fault, as due to personal circumstances we have been unable to meet at Pentrecagal, which has severely curtailed operating layouts. We have been meeting weekly though, and had a good Card-Bach meeting in January. The dining room at Y Bont where we usually meet suffered a bit of flooding, so they kindly let us use the bar-room for our meeting - which gave the customers an opportunity to join in as well!

Last week Emyr, Pete and Dawn and me gave a Cardi-Bach film and photo show at Llanboidy - we expected about 20, and over 100 turned up... a very successful evening. 

On the modelling front, we have been a bit lacking of late, but luckily Station Master Pete down at Login station has come up trumps, and sent images of his latest endeavors in the 00/009 department.

one of the Metcalf range, Pete made this workshop, and kitted it out with workers and tools:

 

 

 Thats the outside. Open it up...

 and from John Wiffens 'Scalescenes' Pete made this mill building:

These are to go on Petes 'dogbone' layout that he has been busy with over the winter, it being too cold to work on his L & B layout in the old wagon. The dogbone has yet to be named -

 Also to go on one of the layouts, Pete has produced and painted an old GPO van, complete with postie:

 Colin meanwhile found a source of tiny electric motors from China, so he re-motored three of the Teifi Gorge locos that had very old motors, and were struggling a bit. Here they are going through their paces with their brand new power units.

 

 

 

Last Tuesday, when those vids were taken, we met at Pat's, and after a delicious curry, with rather interesting French Laughing Water ( last week at Col's we had an Italian LW, which was close to 16%...) I digress. We watched, believe it or not IVOR THE ENGINE! a full two hour DVD, and Colin was so enraptured he never nodded off. Quite a lot of chortling could heard...

 Proof:

 

Thats it for now,

Shaun.