Our group met on 6th June where 17 members attended at a busy meeting. We took the opportunity to discuss many aspects of our annual exhibition held on 2nd May: visitor numbers, whether we need to change the date, finances, the layout and space in the hall, refreshments area, the Group Challenge and the Visitors Favourite Layout award. We hope to hold an exhibition again next year at the same venue, Blyburgate Hall, Beccles.
Part of a set of scratch built side tippers for the March & District Club’s layout “Ardgowan”, displayed by Alan C.A rare vintage Marklin Minex 3400 3-rail 0-6-0 Tank locomotive recently acquired by Barry.On display at Pye Rigg Works is a new O9 locomotive based on the Twining/Guest Engineering 15″ gauge locos first run at the Fairbourne Miniature Railway as “Sian” and “Katie”.A coach and guards van built by Bill in 1:16 scale.Ray’s O9 FK3D print Fordson Tractor, which runs on his layout “Foxwood”.
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Chris built this small 7mm station building inspired by a wooden building on the North York Moors Rly.Geoff was modifying an O-16.5 bogie coach kit by 422 Modelmaking.Clive was starting to modify this static 1:87 Swiss Steam Tram made by Atlas Editions to make it powered.Malcolm painted some 16mm figures from the Design-Scan-Print range acheiving excellent results.Andy joined us today, he was making some 4mm scale trees from three different lenghts of static grass material. Ray put together this O9 Kerr Stuart loco using an over-scale 009 3D print.Nice to see Mike today, he was making an HO scale Faller Blumenfeld Station buiding.Alan C was making “Type 2 version” couplings for the side-tipping wagons (pictured earlier) by adding tails and hand wound iron wire to make them more effective.Bill was modifying the bracing on a 1:16 wooden coach body to give it a better appearance.Richard was making a Springside Models OO scale white metal vintage car kit for a possible NG tramway layout.Neville was contemplating the next set of detailed instructions on this HO scale “Rags to Riches” Ridgway Depot.David has made a 3D printed fan-ventilated plug-in box for DCC operation, and was testing various components.Also under test were John’s DCC units on his portable 009 warehouse/wharf layout, which hasn’t been out for a while due to house alterations.The 3D printed warehouse shells for John’s 009 layout.
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