11/12 members attended out October meeting. Plenty of different projects were being worked-on at the work tables, while one member sent-in photos from home, and two of us were a few miles away at the Sudbury Clubs exhibition.
It is always difficult when a friend and supporter of the Group who’s also a good wife and a mum of our members passes away, it happened last week to Ann Doe. She will be missed by many members, and our thoughts are especially with Neville and Richard at this difficult time.
An O9 locomotive shelter and two buildings ready for painting, for Chris’s new O9 layout.Stuart had bought a Bachmann On30 Porter for his Challenge layout and was giving it a test run.Richard was test-running a HOn30 Chivers Baldwin running on a Bachmann chassis, seen here with a Minitrains Caboose.George had recently painted this Rye & Camber inspired 3D loco print bought from Ebay and running on a Kato chassis.Richard bought a few things from the 009 Society’s 50th Anniversary show, amongst them a Robert Hudson tractor loco previously owned by John Thorne.Richard also bought a 50th Anniversary van, and finished a Meridian Models Snailbeach Tank Wagon for the event too, running on his layout “Shipmeadow” also exhibited at the Statfold Barn Railway and Country Park.Barry acquired an O9 layout that came with seven locos, a mix of 3D prints and Black Dog and Avalon Line resin castings.
Work Tables:
Malcolm was building a 16mm Plateway Models laser-cut Cattle Van.He also made a corrugated iron jig to form plain sheets of aluminium into corrugations.David C was re-positioning uncoupling magnets on his 009 “Pointless Shunting” layout.David was also putting together a prototype 3D printed controller and electronics box.Clive was building a Dundas 009 Snailbeach Hopper kit.Bill was weathering 1:16 brickwork using artist chalk pastels.Neville started assembling an HO Pola Old Time Coal Mine which will be converted and modernised for an HOn3 layout.Ray was painting some low relief O-16.5 walling and freight building.Stuart brought the On20 section of his Group Challenge layout that’s under construction.He also started a freight car for it too, using 3D printed and also timber parts for the chassis and Peco Arch Bar trucks.And something different, Stuart brought a 7.25″ recycled plastic sleeper with fixings going in, so a jig can be made.Richard was building an HO scale AM Models Long Freight Station with platform kit.Stewart supplied photos of recent progress of his TT Piko Church Kit he is building for his “Sainte-Hilare” layout.Father Brown is photographed having an earnest discussion with two sisters of the Annunciation outside Eglise Saint-Christophe.New member George brought along some other 009 models., Some Slate Wagons from Ebay or Etsy, and a WW1 French loco body, and he was painting the slate wagons..Chris continued working on a 7mm open-sided loco shelter/shed using Wills Asbestos sheet and Evergreen plastic struts.
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