October
So to the final post of the year.
Dduallt was making yet another comeback, appearing at our home club's exhibition over two days in Greenock, and there will be more outings in 2019.
Himself hadn't wasted any time in getting started on the first of the new Garratt kits, which we decided would be 143.
He was making very rapid progress on the power units - here's the front one.
We were also taking apart our eldest Backwoods Fairlie, Merddin Emrys, to try and get to the bottom of its very poor performance.
It turned out that what it needed was new brushes for its Mashima motor.
Fortunately these could be fitted by twisting the motor round in the mounting, because it's impossible to remove it without deconstructing a lot of the locomotive.
November
I was making more progress on superbarn 120 which was having its underframe detail added by this stage.
Himself was adding the valve gear to the first of the Garratt bogies, which was being test run.
I had taken on the job of making up some wagon kits as repeat business for a customer.
December
Progress on 143 had got the point where both power units had their vale gear fitted and much of the detail was in place on the boiler unit as well.
As I write it has yet to be joined together or pick-ups fitted, so there's be no test running so far.
The ballast wagons and B wagons were completed and delivered to the customer ready in time for Christmas, even though there was no deadline on the contract.
Thanks to you for reading the blog in 2018 and all our best wishes for 2019.
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