My thanks to Neil Davies for writing this month’s report:
16 attended the meeting.
Julien Webb, with Jane, took a prime spot in the hall, overseeing a brisk trade in Peter Hardy’s locos and stock [Pic1]. Geoff Harper acquired Peter’s K1 [Pic2]. Several other members are now rehearsing their stories that a certain loco has been in their fleet for years…
Matthew Tozer brought along a few projects [Pic3]. These including repainting a 7mm phone box, acquired from a layout donated to the Heart of England group’s layout. He then turned his attentions to repainting an Eggerbahn crane wagon into his fleet colours. Finally, another 3d print crane wagon mounted on an L&B bar bogie [Pic4] had a touch up.
Steve Mann’s test track allowed various of his fleet the chance to stretch their wheels. [Pic5]
Charlie Forbes brought a railcar and diesel. The railcar is a 3d printed body on a stretched Tomix chassis. The file was from Thingverse and is based on a French CFD prototype. Details are still to be added [Pic6]. ‘The Thing’ is a Chivers Australian kit for a Queensland Railways loco [pic7a]. The kit includes the chassis, which has individual powered bogies. [Pic7b]
Ian Willetts was getting to grips with Brandgeight, having taken on its ownership from Peter Hardy’s family [Pic8]. Various items of Ian’s fleet were tested on the gradients. These included a brace of mainline Hunslets heading a rake of Penrhyn quarrymen’s open coaches [Pic9]. Ian also bought a loco, vans and brake of Peter Hardy’s to keep with the layout. [Pic10]
John Davies brought along his in-progress 12 mm gauge inglenook. He also had some 5.5mm scale rolling stock. The locos are elderly GEM kits whilst the rolling stock are mostly built from card and wood on Triang TT wagon chassis. The green coach is an original GEM kit whilst the FR brake coach is built from plywood. [Pic11]
