July
As we moved into the second half of the year Livingston Thompson had been painted, lined and weathered and taken for its first test runs on Bron Hebog with the formation recreating the train when it was first towed from Minffordd to Blaenau Ffestiniog to try and kick start the restoration.
After a false start that ended up with the locomotive on display at the NRM in York where it remains.
The Double Fairlie story continued with Himself trying to keep pace with Boston Lodge on progress with James Spooner.
We're doing out best to adapt a Backwoods brass kit - although there will have to be the inevitable compromise on scale.
On my workbench I was getting to grips with a new project in resin....
August
Those Hula Hoop shapes were turned into the body of Maenofferen water tank wagon which sits on an extended 3 ton slate waggon chassis.
Almost immediate I was inundated with requests to produce a kit version....
And Himself used the first lockdown to reach the finishing line on another long term project, finally completing the painting and lining of our Backwoods Lyn.
The latest of our WHR saloons rolled off the production line, too.
September
Trying our best, once again, to stay synchronised with real world developments, Himself began painting our 130, starting with the bunkers and tanks which received their lovely crimson/plum colour and straw lining.
After completing work on the tank waggon I was engaged on a request to produce a kit for the FR's small ex-MOD bogie wagons.
The first task was to find a way to produce the bogies.
The solution I hit on was to cast a piece which could slip over the very free-running Hudson bogie sold by Dundas.
In fact, Dundas was doing very good business out of us with Himself deciding it was time to replace a lot of our slate waggon fleet as the 30 year old bodies became brittle.
This time instead of a uniform grey he decided to make them a little more colourful.
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