PROJECTS on the Go ! # CLUB LAYOUT # 11th July 2021

    Extra sidings to the Port. It looks like it has snowed down there !

    It does look cold !

    The cloud on top of the silos, looks a bit strange. What do You think ?

    A couple of Locos at rest, in front of the tanks. One looks like it has no where to go ?

    Work continues on the turn table, with buildings starting to appear.

    I think the track work is almost complete, except for ballasting.

    Another building just appeared from nowhere !

    It's all hapening !

    David is adding the finishing touches to the Port Sidings.

    Peter has been working on these boom gates for some time now. One day we might see them in       operation, actually going up & down with the lights flashing & bells ringing !

    Another building has appeared at the Turn Table !

    Another new Building ?  I don't know where that came from ???

    It looks good there, I don't know what industry they are into. Maybe it needs a sign on the building, a bit of advertising goes a long way!

GRANT'S ROCKS - Made from crunched up kitchen aluminium tin foil and plaster.

The track was changed from a siding to a passing loop, which left a hole in the scenery. Something had to be done !  So Grant made some rocks to fill the hole. Above we see the basic rocks.

A bit of paint is added, some brown & a wash of black. You can also see some of the damage to the embankment.

 More plaster rock is added, it is really taking shape !

A bit of foliage around the rocks and the cover-up job is nearly complete. Now to ballast the track.....

Well done Grant, a great job !

Club Running Day, Mother's Day 9th. May 2021

 

Our Club Layout from all Angles ! Ideas for Your Layout.

    More tracks for the Docks Area.

     Its all happening, the painters are still painting the side of the ship !

    The End of the Line !

     The road is being resurfaced. New sidings to the port.

    Geoff has been working hard on the lighting. The platform lighting looks good.

     Loco at rest.....

    At the Platform.

     Coal stage. You have to watch out for yellow crocs.

     It is getting dark, at the quarry.

    An interesting Engine Shed.

     A train coming through.

    Another crane.

    Engine shed & water tower.

     Another Shed.

    Peter shunting again.....

    The Saw Mill.

     Part of the Mine.

     Shunting at the Docks.

                         Rail motor at the Station.

     The Oil refinery.

     The saw mill.

     Working on the lighting.

     Hard work, under the layout.

     I hope he has the right wire.

                         Working on the refinery.

                         Is it finished ?

    Club Loco looks good, along side the factory..

    A nice loop.....

    A lorry heading towards the Docks.

     Is this a Javlin ?   It is a fast train & there are a few in the Club, which is the fastest ???

    The turn table, it looks like we need a few more sidings for Locos !

Club Meeting 27 May 2018

	28 May (3 days ago)

Hi All

The walking wounded are starting to return.  Geoff the Pres was there again, still with piratical patch over one eye but much happier in spirit than a week ago.  Alan, too, now allowed out on his own and looking much better than he has done for quite some time.

I had taken steps to enact plan B for the three-way point, mounting the recalcitrant motor on its own base which had oversize mounting holes to make for easy adjustment.  I mounted it and, naturally, it worked straight away with no further adjustment.  Having totally failed to understand Derek's wiring diagram, I abandoned the point and switched from the digital side of modelling to the analogue.  That is, from things that either work, or they don't, to things that are a matter of opinion - scenery.  In my case, the Stanley Creek yard.  In Dale's case it was anything but the paddock around the shearing shed.  Later there were, as George described them, six cooks gathered around that particular broth trying to find excuses for a creek to disappear.



                                     'Twas a Working Day, Obviously

George and Rod, and Alan too, spent the day at Trossingen, busy with polystyrene, bread knife, PVA glue, and (ultimately) the vacuum cleaner.  Martin was probably responsible for a tree that I had not noticed before, growing on the river flat at the bottom of his gorge/canyon/chasm that has been carved by the un-named river near Mousehole.  There are plenty of such features in Devon - often originally spanned by a Brunel wooden fan viaduct - so we need a suitably west country name for that waterway.  Martin, about to join the overseas members group, has also left us with an over-bridge that is wide enough for a tank engine to pass through, provided that no one gives it an extra coat of paint.  

Geoff the Sec has given us remarkably little trouble recently and continued quietly in the same vein, turning white plaster brown(ish), then green(ish), then vegetated(ish) around the Steward region.

We enjoyed Nancy's cake that I shall describe as chocolate sponge, and Geoff the Pres has offered Diane as next week's benefactor.

Next week, being first Sunday of the month, will be a running day, after we get errant scenery scraped off the rails.

See you

Peter

Club Meeting 20 May 2018

Hi All,

Every time that I go out to try to do something in the garden, it starts to rain.  I know when I am beaten, so here I am at the keyboard.

Sunday was one of those days when we at sixes and sevens.  It just depended when you took the roll call.  Geoff the Pres was there, looking very piratical with a big patch over one eye.  Not feeling very jolly, though.  He was trying to decide which was worse - the pain, or the side effects of the pain killers.  We sent him home with Diane and our best wishes.  Best wishes also to Alan who is reported to be making good progress from his operation.  And to Grant, who continues to find excuses for not finishing the church.

Then we were six.  There was a suggestion that we might rename ourselves as the Phillip Island and Overseas Members Club.  Five out of the country at the moment, and another three due to go in the next couple of months.

Of those still marooned on this Island, even George and Rod were away in spirit, working at Trossingen, way back in 1919.  Closer to home, Dale was making life hard for himself, trying to create a creek near the shearing shed.  The hard bit is that creeks have to come from somewhere and go to somewhere.  And water flows downhill.  Above the shed is a double track main line.  Below the shed is a double track main line.  Neither was laid with provision for a creek to pass under them.  My own thought is that the creek could have dried up, and the sheep would be very happy to drink from your typical farm dam.

                                                                   Finally, the Logs Arrive

Martin squeezed a cattle dock onto the short line between Mousehole and the quarry, and Geoff the Sec continued to quietly progress the scenery around Steward.  I checked the 3-way point at Sayer and found that one set of blades works just fine, the other switched in one direction but would not return.  Not admitting defeat, (yet) I had about six attempts at realigning the motor.  By now the baseboard looks to have a severe case of woodworm, borer, or other noxious pest, and the point still does not operate.  Plan B next week.

At smoko I did indeed bring Tim Tams.  Dale has promised us something better for next week.  Thank you, Nancy.  Rod enquired, and Martin gave an update on planning for next year's show.  I quote verbatim: "Visiting layouts that have advised, either verbally or in writing, they will be attending are Grossard Court (HO), Ray Eldridge (Vintage O), Ted Allan (O Narrow Gauge), Shannon Tapia (N American). There are two other layouts that have been invited. One is N Australian and the other HO Narrow Gauge. They are yet to advise if they will be coming. At this stage there are four people requiring accommodation - Ray Eldridge, Ted Allan and Shannon & Krystal Tapia." Just for a change, Bald Mountain will be the biggest layout. In truth, it is quite big.

Hopefully, I will see some of you next week,

Peter