West Mids Group meeting, October 2024

15 made it to our September meeting.

Joseph Jacks brought along his Mini Dolgoch Layout which has progressed sice we last saw it (Pic001). He had also built one of the new Peco laser-cut kits for Tan-y-Bwlch Ffestiniog Railway station (Pic002).

Paul Atkin was adding some scenery to his Rokuhan layout (Pic003).

Colin Capel brought along a poorly Liliput U class loco. With the collective knowledge of the group and a strip down the loco revealed that the running was due to a broken pick up support (Pic004), a common issue with this version of the loco.

Dick Johnson brought along Tren Bach. It ran a variety of stock during the evening but our photographer managed to catch Holy War (Bachmann model from Dick’s stock box) on a train of open coaches alongside Mike WAll’s VW based railcar (Pic005).

Mike Bartlett was working on a few projects (Pic006). A T&S ‘Colonial wagon’ in 7mm scale was getting some finishing touches. Mike was also putting a number of Kit Wood Hills 14 foot On30 reefer vans together.

Alec Matthews had started a small layout based on the Fiddletown & Copperopolis concept in HOn30 (Pic007) with a working title of ‘The Papoose’. Stock do far consists of a Minitrains 0-4-0 loco and 3d printed stock from Chris Schmuck (Pic008), with buildings assembled from home printed card kits.