19 members made it through the rains to our October meeting.
Ben Powell had been reworking his Hunslet 0-6-2T ‘Theakston’ and has substantially rebuilt it. (Pic001)
Ian Willetts brought along his 3d printed Bagnall wing tank on its Minitrains chassis. Initially this had a problem where the flywheel rubbing on the inside of the cab. Ian had solved the issue by removing the top section of the cab back and adding some flat metal supports for the cab roof. (Pic002)
Neil Davies brought along a 3d printed 60ph Kerr Stuart diesel running on a Farish 04 chassis. This pulled a train of Welshpool & Llanfair stock. This consisted of five Ninelines sheep wagons and three cattle vans (a pair of 3d prints and a Nine Lines kit). (Pic004)
Pete Hardy was finally able to get some time on his own test track, being able to run a Paul Windle built Kerr Stuart 0-6-2 T ‘Hobgoblin’ passed to him by Peter Cullen. (Pic005)
Alec Matthews had been busy with his 3d printer producing some Darjeeling & Himalaya open wagons (two shown in Pic006). His new double balcony brake van is based on the Glyn Valley Tramway design. Alec has lengthened it incorporate the second balcony (Pic007). It looked rather nice with the Tralee & Dingle loco Alec had purchased at the Statfold Barn show (Pic008). Alec has also been working up some designs for bogie stock based on the Southwold Railway Cleminson 6 wheel stock. These included a drop door wagon (Pic009), low-sided wagon (Pic010) and flat wagon (Pic011), run on printed bogies (pic012) and have full underframe details (pic013). Alec had also purchased an ARU models 0-6-0 chassis (Pic0140). This that ran well fresh out of the box, and improved with the addition of some weight, though the Tralee & Dingle loco providing the mass was a little out of the loading gauge (Pic015).
Joseph Jacks brought along his Snailbeach 0-4-2T Skylark that was running very well, but unfortunately missed my lens. His a Talyllyn ‘Douglass’ made form one of Alec Matthews’ 3D prints on an N-Drive productions chassis (Pic016) didn’t! Neither did his 3d printed Talyllyn brake and the (in)famous nuclear flask on a War Department E class wagon (pic017). Joseph had also been experimenting with card and using watercolour paints to add the details to make buildings, with a water tank as his first prototype (Pic018).
Paul Atkin spent the meeting building one of the Kato curved mini-diorama boards (Pic019). He managed to finish the basic build by the end of the meeting (pic020, shown with Joseph Jacks’ guards van). Paul’s next challenge is to decide what to add in the way of scenery.
David Wilcox brought along his 009 layout ‘Dolserau’ with a selection of stock. This included his diesel loco ‘Hercules’ and scratch built bogie wagon (Pic021), and an articulated railcar ‘Y Ddraig Goch’ made from one of the Airfix / Dapol OO gauge railbus kit (Pic022)
Dave Rowley took the controls of ‘Dolserau’ (Pic023) to run his 3d printed tram loco and some stock (pic024). These included some Welshpool cattle vans (3d prints from Nigel Brookes) and some very nicely painted Gloucester cattle (pic026).
