There's one last piece of construction to complete on Minffordd ahead of the Model Rail Scotland show in Glasgow at the end of the month, and that is to fit an information panel for those who are curious to know precisely what it is they are looking at.
(We've learned the hard way that knowledge of perhaps the most famous of all narrow gauge railways is not something to make assumptions about in this part of the world....)
In a drive for economy Himself is adapting the panel which we built for Bron Hebog.
The fiddle yards on Minffordd are a few inches shorter than the panel, however, so a slice has been taken off the right-hand end, and there is also a section which needs to be removed to allow it to fit around one of the posts holding up the lighting canopy.
If Bron Hebog is ever taken out to a show again then we'd have a decision to make about whether to make a replacement, or just do without.
While he's taking care of the carpentry my task is to design a few panels to explain the whys, the wherefores and the how-we-did-its of Minffordd.
It will be obvious as soon as someone asks the classic question: 'Is this N gauge?' (or variants of such) that clearly folk aren't bothering to read it.......
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