16 made it to the meeting (pic001).
Paul Atkin (pic002) was working on a laser cut book end kit made of laser cut plywood (Pic003). He has also bought a Kato Chibi Railway set. Various ideas as to what to do with the powered coach and unpowered locomotive were shared.
Also working on projects were Adrian Hall, Mike Bartleet and Andy Smyth (pic004).
Adrian was working on a Campbell Scale Models Idaho Spring Mine kit for his HOn3 layout. Mike was working on some Peco NG7 kits, again laser cut plywood. Andy was building a pair of loco sheds – laser cut kits from Peco for Boston Lodge in 4 mm scale (pic005).
Dick Johnson was planning a new layout. This used the Grainge & Hodder baseboards from his old layout, along with some scenic modules from his old layout. He had brought a baseboard along, with the ‘tin tabernacle’ scene for some inspiration and discussions. He also had one of the new Bachmann Ffestiniog passenger brake coaches in yellow & crimson livery, and a Peco ‘bowsider’ coach in the victorian livery (pic006).
Colin Capel brought along a selection of HO and HOe stock which ran on his new oval test track (Pic007). Unfortunately I wasn’t quick enough to make notes of what the stock was!
Ben Powell brought along a Kerr Stuart ‘Superior’ build from the Golden arrow kit but running on a Farish 08. Apparently it was a case of ‘3rd time’s the charm’ as on previous visits the running had been less than desired. With perseverance Ben had traced the issue down to misalignment in the frames. It was able to pull a rake of Chivers steel open wagons on Neil Davies’ test track (Pic008).
Ben had also brought along his scratch built Peckett 0-4-2ST ‘Dwarf’ and Narrow Planet 20ph Orenstein & Koppel 0-4-0 which, along with Neil’s Fourdees ‘Leeds No.1’ and LKM V10C diesel from Narrow Planet (Pic009) also got run.
Joseph Jacks showed us progress on ‘Dol-fach’, that now was some more scenery along with a station building and name board (Pic010).