About 15 members attended our meeting on 6th April, a good turn-out as some members were exhibiting at the Norwich Model Railway exhibition that same day.
Here are some photos from the meeting:-
Above photos: Malcolm has been busy refreshing the Late Reverend Teddy Boston’s Southwold Railway scenic’s, repairing buildings, track and generally preparing the layout for display at the Southwold Railway Trust’s Steamworks. The work has been sympathetically done with a couple of personal touches also by Malcolm. The layout will shortly be returning to the SRT. Richard brought along the little Staithe micro layout he’s been working on. Now called Blythford Staithe which is part of the Beccles & Blythford Railway (and part of the Beccles & Bungay Railway group). Track has now been laid, wired up, traverser/cassette board adapted, 2 of the 3 uncoupling magnets installed and it was being test run. The tram locos, a Nigel Brooks rebuilt tram and a Fourdees tram have now been painted in B&BR livery.Geoff is currently building a O-16.5 tractor based loco, a work in progress, converting a diecast tractor, fitting it to a motorised wagon chassis and making a brass cab for it. The loco is radio controlled and connects to the coal wagon in the photo which houses the battery and the receiver. The wagon is interchangeable with other locos.Above three photos: Bill was displaying some models on the Group display stand, and has built a 1:12 scale Heywood style open wagon using his usual materials. He had also finished a 1:16 van with the ironwork now finished and using a TriAng chassis.Above two photos: Alan was displaying some O-16.5 Lionheart Models Lynton & Barnstable coaches and a loco.David was working on his 009 test track layout which uses Kato track. He was running-in a selection on new Aru Model chassis and they were superb runners for such tiny chassis. He had 3d printed a mill building which he’s covered with Scale Model Scenery downloadable & printed paper.
Work Tables:-
Bill was working on a 1:16 firewood store making it from wood, card and foil.Alan was scratchbuilding from plasticard axle boxes for a 16mm battery type loco. This will be an additional loco for his Martlesham Malteser Mine. He has also scratch built a wagon tipping frame from plasticard.Nigel has scratch built a 16mm Station building including ice cream sales and sellers stool for a miniature railway.Nigel has also been working on the miniature railway stock creating some 10 1/4″ gauge coaches by converting cheap toy train sets into more suitable coaching stock.Jim was building some 009 Dundas freelance coach kits. A friend of his gave him them for his 90th birthday and has been keen to see them built up.Chris was kitbashing a 009 railcar body which will be powered by a Tomytec chassis.Stuart was working On30 watertank he’s scratchbuilding. He was using wood for framing and has carved the spout from a firm foam.Alan C was making “Locos n Stuff” chopper couplings to fit on them. He’s also been making some Peco L&B vans.Stuart was also displaying a Bachmann Porter 0-4-0 and some kit-built Chivers freight cars.Geoff has been building and was working on some O.16.5 wagon kits by 422 Modelmaking. The tool plank wagon was built as the kit but the rest have been kit-bashed into different kinds of wagons. Mike was working on an Auhagen TT 1:120 station island building kit for use on a HOe project.Neville was continuing work on an laser cut HO “Rags to Riches” Ridgway Station Building.
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