ScOONs Zoom Reports

[John Galbraith]

Following huge public demand (or may have been a request on the Forum) we have decided to re-instate posting a summary of our Zoom meetings, both as a means of showing the greater 009 community we are still a very active group but also inform members who were unable to attend a meeting what was discussed.

As a bit of an update from our last report (a few years ago) we still have a good number of members and have had a few new members joining us this year. On the exhibition front we now have regular invitations to three of the major exhibitions in Scotland. Model Rail in Glasgow, Perth and Aberdeen. This year we have also been invited to Cupar, Dundee, Elgin and Falkirk with an invite to Edinburgh next April. The exhibits usually consist of either a layout, ScOONs stand (modules, Pizza layouts, small dioramas, screen showing pages of the 009 News, banners, society kits ) or both.

The major project the group is undertaking at present is the module layout, started by Graeme and Ian, but more members are now taking part and hopefully we will be able to share photographs shortly. A few members are also progressing with their own layouts which hopefully we can exhibit in the future.

We are at the Dundee exhibition on the 19th/20th October with the layout Glendhar but we have a big exhibition in Aberdeen on the 26th/27th October where we will have our modules, including the first outing of Ian's return loops (no pressure Ian), Glendhar and hopefully next to us one of our younger members, Ollie, making 009 kits. Hope this helps to bring things slightly up to date and Graeme is also intending to to submit an update in the 009 News.

Our next Zoom meeting will be on Monday 16th September when we will re-instate our reports, and for anyone wishing to join us details can be found in the Forum or by contacting Graeme Dunbar whose details are in the 009 News.