Things are leaping forward apace with Paul getting the lighting enclosure fixed in place.
Meanwhile Rhobat made what we believe to be his first foray into 7mm scale building a kit for yard crane for (betcha can’t guess) Tŷ’n-y-Coedcae
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Away from the clubrooms TAFKATYS is beavering away on a Goods Shed for Tŷ’n-y-Coedcae and, to help with laying things out in an area where real estate is at a premium he provided LBH with the footprint, which was then transferred onto an Amazon card envelope. In the accompanying images the card indicates the outline of the shed and the position on the track has been drawn on it.
The buffer stop on the middle line is to be removed to provide rail access into the shed (this was always the plan) but there is a pinch point between the corner of the goods shed and the buffer stop on the other siding. Our eagle-eyed chairman noted that the buffer stop earmarked for removal was a bit shorter than its neighbour. So by transferring the short buffer stop over and removing three sleepers of track from the siding the pinch point was eased and the three-wagon capacity could be retained (just!). Hurrah!
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Paul and LBH snuck in the clubrooms to do a bit of work on Tŷ’n-y-Coedcae with its forthcoming exhibition. Paul fitted the new fascia and painted quite a bit. LBH worked on the Tar Works wall and ground surfaces.
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Paul🏅had been doing sterling work building the fascia and lighting enclosure for Tŷ’n-y-Coedcae.
Our resident Wizard has been steadily painting the chairs over several weeks; this view contrasts favourably with that of the grey chairs on New Year’s Day.
Also to be seen here are ground surface work and the new wooden boundary fence.
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Mr Chairman has been busy finishing some huts for Tŷ’n-y-Coedcae. Working clockwise from the top:
The woodwork on an original Pol Sands hut has been repainted to match a the new Edwardian period.
LBH assembled a 422 Modelmaking Timber Platelayers’ Hut kit and Mr C ‘repaired’ a broken batten and painted it.
Finally MrC has revived an earlier model of a scratch built wooden hut. In its original location the rear wasn’t visible, so wasn’t finished to the same standard as the rest. However on Tŷ’n-y-Coedcae it’ll be both viewer-facing and close to the front so an upgrade is needed. MrC ingeniously sourced the thin wooden sheet from Camembert packaging.
Tŷ’n-y-Coedcae fiddle yard and a tale of two glues, Paul🏅manfully overcame the effects of the solvent of the contact adhesive used to fix the formica while LBH was a tad heavy-handed with the Resin W bottle leading to a spill not too dissimilar in appearance to a Christmas cake.
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Friday 5th January we held our traditional Yuletide curry.
Only two were in attendance, Mr Chairman and LBH, both working on Tŷ’n-y-Coedcae. MrC on ballasting and the control panel and LBH on scenics.
In the foreground we can see where MrC is ballasting, but it’s more difficult to pick out where LBH is adding wire (actually elastic filament) to the further fence.
The old Pol Sands control panel has to be moved to a new box. As you can see from the shot of the rear the buttons will unscrew but 15mm holes will be needed in the new box. The largest drill available was 10mm so the crude use of a reamer took that up to 12mm, then the even cruder file work got 15mm – ish holes. The finished result is below, though the lines need to be drawn in properly.
Wagonman is working on an ex-SECR birdcage brake 3rd – Blacksmith Kit – to be completed as departmental mess & tool van – (one or two of these found their way to the western region stock in the 1960’s), on the right you can leads running to a motor that MrChairman is giving a run to see if it quietens down (it did).
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From Late November LBH hacked away at perfectly good scenery …
… to provide a location for the new access path to Rhyd-y-Gwern Halt.
The path to the halt ‘platform’ has been developed. Firstly a retaining wall was formed (1) using Intentio card stone sheets, (2) the stone as weathered using powdered (3) capping stones were added using modelling clay (4) the base of the wall was bedded in (more clay) (5) that was weathered (6) foliage added and (7) gravel laid on the path.
By the end December the path to the halt had taken form.
Here is a selection of what ran on the main test track. The MR 0-4-4 T has been seen before but now had a chance at an extensive run which it did really well. Also stretching its legs was the streamlined railcar, a relatively new purchase.
Below we see American stock from MikeE and a Heljan Mogul that has been in a box for quite a long time.
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