Week Ending 5th July
Having taken receipt of the the last two LMJ boards Wagonman put all three together as a start of the process of conversion into its new guise.
Modellers abhor a vacuum!
The space made available by the LMJ board’s removal was quickly invaded by LBH.
Paul🏅🏅 has assembled and painted a pair of shelves for Tŷ’n-y-Coedcae to hold coffee and the NCE Powercab.
Our Wizard is getting on nicely with the tender of B&MR ‘Usk’ (or ‘Wye’)
And to finish the Monday report a start has been made on the laying the track work on Cwm-carno, and following some helpful comments from sharp eyed readers of the entry on the Scalefour forum.
Tuesday was the first in July so we met on-line with a range of presentations. Mr C started us off with pictures gleaned from the internet showing LNWR 4 cylinder compound freight engines and 2-4-0s. Mike E had some pics of incredibly small shunting engines from Italy, though built in Germany. Steve Bell had yet more photos of the Cambrian lines, fascinating as usual, while Rod’s selection was from South Wales. Luke updated us on his latest project which utilises the baseboard for the Peco 200 challenge. Called Queen’s Wharf it is based on Towyn on the Talyllyn Railway. Finally Paul W showed us his scratch-built improvements to the tender of his 78xxx in 7mm.
On Friday there was a significant step forward on Cwmcarno with the first turnout to be laid. After careful siting and marking the position on Monday, the Evostic was applied and the main turnout stuck down and weighted in place with pieces of steel. We can now get on with laying the mainline through the station.
The second turnout in the view will have to be laid later as it needs aligning with this main turnout and exchange sidings crossover which has now been started.
Turnouts for the exchange sidings started.
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