I am pleased to report that the track work is all now working well with locomotives and rolling stock performing as it should. Tom has worked very hard to get the fiddle yard cassettes working as they should be. Unfortunately when constructed the securing angles were a little too big and consequently fowling the brake gear on some locos. This has taken several club evenings to do but Tom has now completed the task and all the cassettes now accept trains with no problems.
There are various little projects under way at present. We recently had an evening where a few of us were making components for the sprat and winkle couplings needed for the rolling stock. Phil Evans has been working hard fitting couplings but was running short of items. With a few team members we were able to complete most of the pieces needed and now we are moving on the soldering them all up.
In the mean time I played around with various methods of making vegetables in 4mm. Now that this has been perfected the project has been opened up to other group members to build a supply of items to be stored in readiness for when the gardens of the 7 cottages are ready for planting. There are a lot of plants to be made so there will be no reason for anyone to get bored!!!
