Scotland Area ScOONs meeting Monday 18 July

[Ian McAulay]

Calling all ScOONers

It's time for our second July meeting. There's a heatwave forecast for Monday 18 July. Hopefully it will have cooled a little by our 8pm start time. (That's 8pm UK time, 1900 GMT or whatever your local clock says elsewhere.) John Galbraith will be the MC for the session. Zoom details are below.

See you there

Ian

Ian McAulay is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: 009 Society ScOONs online meeting
Time: Jul 18, 2022 20:00 London

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[John Galbraith]

Six attended our latest meeting on Monday evening which started with discussing the Paisley Exhibition in December. Alan would be able to set things up at the start of the exhibition and pack up at the end. Phil, Tom and possibly Hugh would also be able to help out at various times over the weekend. Graeme will confirm with the club when they require confirmation of us attending. Once we know this date we will make a decision on whether to attend and what to display.

Alan is awaiting delivery of a Langley Models lighthouse with flickering lights, which he thinks will require some modification.

Paul is progressing with his Bachmann conversion but is unhappy with the loco roof. A very informative discussion then took place on the use of card and baking parchment as a modelling medium and Graeme also suggested the use of a thin superglue as an adhesive.

Graeme has carried out further experiments with Rif Dyemore dyes for colouring insulating rail joiners and showed us eight examples using different measures of Graphite, Apricot Orange and Daffodil Yellow. As this was a very interesting, unusual and off the wall topic Ian and Graeme are looking at a possible article for the 009 News.
Graeme also showed us some photographs from the Swoons group of some of their Mini Layouts including Pig Dyke Farm, Queenies Cottage and Foxcombe Brewery. 

Ian has been carrying out modifications to DCC proof his Peco points to avoid wheel back to backs shorting across the point blades (see Forum posts by Ian). Ian has been having some problems with the soldering but thinks this may be down to the lack of carrying out any soldering for some time. Another great discussion then took place on soldering, point wiring and the use of isolating joiners and the frog end of points.

Hugh is progressing with his Inglenook siding layout and has the baseboards built and the track cut to size and about to modify his upper baseboard to accommodate a Wills Bridge kit. Hugh has also purchased some etched brass kits, a cattle dock and a Wills corrugated church kit. The layout is going to be based on a 'What If' Scotland adopted a 3ft system similar to that use in Ireland. The name of the layout will be An Ard which was the name of Hugh's first layout as a teenager but is actually a collection of small settlements close to Gairloch in Ross-shire.

Hugh and Ian showed some great photographs and videos of Monorail railways including the Listowel and Ballybunion Railway in Ireland and the Epsom Salts (Magnesium) Monorail in California.

The next meeting will be on Wednesday 3rd August and Graeme will be MC.

If I have missed or misquoted anything please let me know and I will amend.

[Hugh Ransom]

Great write up, but just to note the use of 'An Ard' was reference to my last modelling effort as a teenager - there were various pervious efforts...  Even though the OO and OO9 layouts remained incomplete I had decided as you correctly note to explore the notion of 3ft in the west highlands, pillaging my fathers left over TT to create a non-powered diorama.