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Its the Annual Conwy N gauge Exhibition 6th 7th July at Porth -Y-Felin school Llanwrst Road LL32 8FZ alongside the long stay carpark . Admission Adults £5.00 children £2.00 at least 12 layouts and also something a bit different !! The club had a little challenge at Christmas called 24inch or a certain takeway size challenge !! Its been very successful come and see what its all about and judge for yourself

More photos !! Since been out on first exhibition seems to have gone down well !! If nothing else it ran very reliably . Not bad for 4 months every inch of spare time ! And well 009 great fun now where,s my N Gauge !!

So more photos Water when put down was Woodlands Senic water very good and the rock face I used this new woodlands scenic shaper sheet very good Vehicles re usual sources except lorries all scratchbuilt or heavily modified even bus has been modified to show steering going round tight corner as they do in Cornwall

So one of things that I wanted was atomated uncoupling . So after much experimenting on a friends layout with magnets etc (A story in itself ) I came up with discreet ramps that are operated by bicycle spokes . Backscenes are made by myself from various photos I have taken over the year and put through Photoshop to make the fit etc ! Most of the town/village buildings are adapted from Scalescenes .com and I have tried where possible to keep the stonework as near to bodmin stonework as possible the Clyde Puffer is also a Scalescene kit with added detail the fishing boat was purchased at a local RNLI shop at very good price some detail !

Well last summer after our annual local exhibition my other half bought a Bachmann 009 WD 4-6-0 Peggy !! I must admit I was unsure about this being an N gauge modeller and also into G scale !! So it sat on the coffee table for a couple of days everyone inspected it and commented on how fine it was !! Then it was given a run on a test track on the coffee table . What a runner okay I was getting interested . So in the next few days I went and bought a ROCO HOe starter set with Henschel 0-6-0t and some wagons and oval of track ,controller etc . So on to the coffee table for a play !! Okay what a runner ! So the following weekend off to the local model shop (Rhuddlan Models ) ,and some open tub wagons were purchased ! So there the background now to the layout ! Well its a metre long by 36cm wide . Baseboard is two layers 5mm foamboard and plastic L Pieces as a frame bonded together with industrial superglue I can obtain very strong stuff takes no prisoners not like certain proprietory make ! The layout is a fictional harbour set in North Cornwall somewhere on the Camel estuary it was built as rival to Bodmin and Wenford line and also as branch to Delabole slate quarry all pure fiction !! So the first building a rebuilt Wills engine shed ! Next the painted shed

Fair dos Steve looking good and I presume a pleasant change from N gauge so keeps the interest up !! Do like the 25,s and 08 (No I must not do O gauge !! ) Look forward to seeing it out and about

Its the annual N gauge exhibition in Conwy on the 7th/8th July ,Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 5pm Saturday Sunday 10.am till 4pm Admission :- Adults £4.00 Children £2.00 all welcome light refreshments also some slight variations on layouts this year !! Please come and enjoy !!!!

And now for some video here is the link

Wents mill is a bit of an experiment mainly to do with new senic technics and products static grass water etc also atomatic uncoupling . The layot is three scanes in one first being based on the crossing at eland bridge Bodmin and Wenford line the second is a representation of Pons mill off the Newquay line outside St Blazey and the third is at Moorswater on the Liskard and Looe line just outside the old China clay works where the Liskard and lMoorswater canal and the railway shared with two portal a common bridge with vert tight clearances first some photos then some test video

Here a corgi one I did a while back tomytec chassis and Kato Bogies Oh and here is Sarah as she is Known