Over the last couple of months, members have brought different items along to meetings and the following photos show a bit of what we’ve been up to.<\/p>\n
The January meeting was held a week earlier than usual to fit in with members other commitments, the intention was to use the session as a Show and Tell on projects completed over the Christmas period.<\/p>\n
With only moderate family intrusion over Christmas I had been packaging up the Manor conversion kits and and had one completed production sample running on the test track during our meeting.<\/p>\n
Also completed was the 24133 conversion \u201cquickie\u201d project. This entailed fitting headcode boxes to a Farish 24 using parts from the Worsley works body kit. Fitting new red LEDs in the lower mounts and reverse wiring the chassis feeds was also required along with filling and repainting the yellow ends as appropriate. A short article for the magazine may well be produced covering this conversion. A weathered 24023 was also photographed as a comparison.<\/p>\n
I also brought along my converted Blue Pullman. This has had the wheels turned on the power cars and uses replacement wheel sets on the trailer cars. Apart from that, the pristine look will be maintained for the moment. As this was completed on 31st<\/sup> December 2012, does this qualify as the first unit to be converted to 9.42mm gauge? (We are not counting the scratchbuilt unit used on Chee Tor for many years!) Gareth\u2019s unit stayed at home and will remain standard we are told.<\/p>\n Richard had been playing with an electronic microscope which was hooked up to his laptop whilst demonstrating soldering. The device seemed easy to use and certainly shows up your workmanship, whatever the quality.<\/p>\n Various small items of stock were passed around between members and appreciated, although these escaped the attention of the camera. Dave was using his home built RSU very successfully during the meeting and Gareth built up a little Shire Scene concoction. Richard has now decided that a deadline of our April meeting will produce some more completed items in celebration of his ten years in the 2mm Association.<\/p>\n The February meeting saw Gareth display the fully painted horse drawn items worked on in January. Alan brought along his 108 DMU for the drive axle drop in replacements to be fitted and this was then run in on the test track. Dave continued with bogie building and Richard was working on some building for his scenic test track. Gareth also displayed some lovely LBSCR coaches converted from Japanese coaches. Various of these activities are pictured below.<\/p>\n\n\t\t