ScOOns Meeting 5th February - 12 members attended.
Firstly many congratulation to Graeme on the arrival of his grandchild.
The meeting started with discussions about the forthcoming Model Rail Scotland at Glasgow and the Paisley shows for this year and next. Tom volunteered to get the banners from Alan and take them to to Glasgow.
Vern - has been setting up a society group in America has they have now had 3 Zoom meetings and it is going well. He has also been researching the Festiniog Railway.
Paul - is started painting the couplings on his locos.
David Bird- showed us STL files for a Leek and Manifold railway building and will send them through to Tom to see if they can be 3D printed.
Graeme - showed a slide show of a collection of models he has collected over the years and is started cleaning and spraying them using Mr Surfacer Primer. He also showed us the bridge on the module he has been working on which he will be taking to the Model Rail Scotland.
Rik - has been making a Book Nook model to get him back into modelling and is hoping to start on is module over the next couple of weeks.
Tom - has been working on some models to take to Model Rail Scotland.
Chris - showed us a picture of a Conway kit which is now discontinued but has milled his own from brass plate which he is hoping to turn into a motorised tram.
Alan - has been working on a DCC problem which he has now fixed.
David Duff - Has been working on his MERG shuttle and has attended a lecture.
Hugh Norwood - is working on his Emily Loco to turn it into an OO9 loco and has acquired some 3D printed parts from David Hurst. He has also got a bending jig for Greenwich couplings from Light Railway Stores. He is also working with Java Script.
Hugh Ransom - is hoping to start working on some brass kits shortly.
Ian - has completed his work on the QR codes to take to Model Rail Scotland and has been working on some TT wagons and replacing the chassis with Dundas ones for OO9. The decals on his wagons were produced by Tom.
Our next meeting will be Monday the 17th February and will be chaired by Roger.
Will will be Attending Model Rail Scotland in Glasgow on the 21st/22nd/23rd February with our modules, please drop by and say hello if you are attending.