CLUB NEWS

CLUB NEWS My electric locomotive, Deborah, and its driving trailer are now more or less complete, having been fitted with a sprung, quick-release chair (NOT an ejection seat!), horn, brake, emergency stop feature, front axle restraint and some marble slabs to aid traction. I have encountered a phrase in the model community, that the last 5% of a project takes 95% of the time, and I wholeheartedly agree. In this case, the model was built without any plans or drawings but it just 'growed', as in auxesis, like Topsy. Materials were obtained aus gefunden, or to put it another way objets trouvés, over a period of about 5 years, in between writing this column, following my amateur radio pursuit and enjoying my retirement. I do enjoy the occasional recommendation to…

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