Preparations for Scaleforum continue at a near frantic pace. However, on Monday Rhobat brought along the decorated samples for his Cambrian 2-plank wagons to be marketed under the Bryngaer Models label. They are in Cambrian and GW livery.
Preparations continued on Tuesday.
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No meeting on Monday as many of us were occupied elsewhere with it being a Bank Holiday
Tuesday saw more run-throughs and tweaking of the ABB timetable prior to Scaleforum. This exposed some maintenance needs on the stock, some of which is thirty years old, including this coach bogie.
Friday saw more timetable run-throughs on ABB and this ex-GWR 28xx was unearthed from the stock intended for LMJ.
It ran pretty well and hopefully will be able to make an appearance at Scaleforum.
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Monday, and after wheel cleaning and track cleaning last Friday it was time to get the stock onto ABB. The fiddle yard is looking quite full.
Tuesday evening was enlivened by this delicious home made orange and almond cake from Luke, which, as you can see was very well received.
Friday morning saw the latest Scalefour News flop onto the front doormat with a view of ABB on the cover. Only four weeks to go now until we take ABB to Scaleforum.
In the evening Luke was preparing his Pos Siyntio for the forthcoming Open Day, Fred and LBH were grappling with a misbehaving 0-6-0 tank mechanism and Mr Chairman was readying stock for ABB.
On ABB in the train seen above the long parcels van is not well suited to the formation. It is tail traffic which moves to the shortish bay behind and it’s a bit too long for that, its colour is too different to the other coaches, but worst the corridor connections make uncoupling with a Dingham loop unreliable. The replacement is shorter without corridor connections, though we might opt for an even dirtier version.
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Monday and the quest for a Barry Class G continues with a Midland 0-4-4T as another possible candidate. You can make a comparison between the two in the picture.
For more info on Barry stock look here.
Work has resumed on some fencing for in front of the semis on ABB. The view in the pic is from the back. The fencing has been attached to the front brickwork and brass wire glued in to help locate the assembly in position.
Tuesday and the inner face of brickwork now has been trimmed to match the step down in the fence and then stuck on. Some primer next, then attempt to install it.
Luke has had the privilege of wielding Thor’s hammer to persuade the T nuts into these wooden blocks. They are to take the adjustable feet for a set of legs. Then he used it again to get the blocks into the ends of the legs themselves. The modified legs are the further set. With a little adjustment the baseboard was level.
With ABB set to go to Scaleforum as soon as next month, it was time to get it erected in the layout room. Of course we chose the bit where the floor is not completely level so some packing was required.
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