The weekend started with a night down at my local hobby shop. Simon Says Hobbies and Games hosts a modelling
night on the first Friday of the month. Geoff, Darren and Brendan were also there along with many
others. Various activities were undertaken by those present and the numbers attending were very good. I was working on cutting out the "Give Way" triangles for some
railway crossing signs that I am making. I did a bit of gluing of the
last eight of so of my crossbuck ‘Railway Crossing’ signs to code 40 rail posts
and then cut out about 36 or so "Give Way" triangles. I still need to cut the
centre out of these triangles and paint them red. They can then be glued
to my couple of dozen posts, for my layout and few mate’s layouts. I might have a few spares available at this year's May Show for a dollar or two.
On Saturday I attended a morning working bee for my son's soccer club, so following that the only thing in the afternoon I did was assemble a drop saw I
picked up at Aldi the previous Thursday. I intend to use it to cut a few
lengths of timber when the need arises. Not bad for $59. Although it did take some time to screw it all together and I think it gave me a sore back.
Today I jumped in the car and went to the All
Gauge Club’s Buy and Sell at the Carina PCYC building. This looked
suitably well attended by both sellers and purchasers. After doing the
rounds for a couple of times, and having a quick chat with lots of people, I finally found something to purchase. I picked up a set of Tichy Train Group’s
fettler’s handcar and trailer set which contained 6 pairs of the vehicles for $12. That
will make a very good addition to the layout, spread around all my fettler sheds.
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