With the planned speaker having pulled out at the last minute (though still treating us to a specially crafted letter of apology), volunteers from the group stepped up to fill the vacuum and we were treated to two presentations. (The third wasn't needed!)
First up, George Falkner presented his thoughts on painting and lining locomotives, illustrated with several Great Eastern examples. His philosophy is to bring techniques and from painting wargaming miniatures with multiple shades of each colour to accentuate light and shadow. We were able to inspect several of the subjects in the flesh.
Then, Mick Simpson took over and gave a live demonstration of how he sets up his Pit Hill layout, with trestles made from the Combitech aluminium framing system. Lots of useful ideas for us to learn from Mick's experience.
A demo of actually operating the layout had to wait for tea, but continued to generate interest until we ran out of time. Here you see the underside of the layout.
All in all a success.
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