Dunallander Update 21st December 2021

Further progress has been made to the station area since our last post, and below are the latest pictures of Jim Watt's excellent station canopies.

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and at hopefully at some stage a return to normality next year. Stay safe.

Dunallander Update 4th December 2021

A few members of the group managed to get together on Saturday at Roy's shed. Although meetings have been restricted due to the ongoing pandemic, Roy has been busy on the layout. The following photographs show the progress Roy has made on building the formers for the scenics. The base for the terrain is built up using foam board.

This is from the south end looking at the station and goods yard and beyond to the junction

Looking towards the viaduct over Allan Water

Looking south towards the station

Grampian Area Meeting 7th August 2021

At last! After nearly 18 months we have finally been able to get together and also meet one of our new members Paul Doyle. We met in Tony's back garden with gazebo duly errected due to the forecast, but thankfully the rain stayed away. A special thanks must go to Tony's son John and Paul for supplying delicious chocolate brownies and Tony for the tea an coffee.

L to R Paul, Mike, Tony and Roy. The meeting took on the shape of a Show and Tell which was great and Mike showed his workings for a future article on buildings and also some new buildings for Dunallander, Victoria Hall and a house picured below.

Paul also showed some of his buildings for his new layout, Collieston Church and some of the buildings of Glen Garioch Distillary

A very good afternoon get together and who knows life may just get back to normal some day soon.

Dunallander Update 22/02/21

I am sure I speak for all when I say let us hope that there is finally light at the end of this long tunnel and we will once again be able to put on our favourite backpack, comb our greying locks (apologies to our younger members) and head for an exhibition and resume our group activities.

Meanwhile up in the GAG, Mike is taking some much earned rest from making his excellent buildings to carry out some work on his own ' Shunting Puzzle Layout' of Portsoy. The following photo is of Mike's completed Victoria Hall just awaiting weathering.

Tony is currently in the process of producing more Black Fives than Bachmann and the following is a photo of the various boilers, with domeless at the bottom, then 44709 and 44765 with the later boiler, then Perth's 44997 with an extra hole that needs filling, and finally five more of that type. The prototype is 44997, and that one has the handrail holes drilled as well. Tony is also converting a Jinty and doing some wheels for three 4F's to round off quite an impressive display.

Dunallander Update 20/01/2021

Well Mike has been busy again and here are the latest images of Victoria Hall, now with the roof on.

Dunallander Update

Happy New Year to you all, and hopefully this year will see us all being able to return to something approaching normality in both our family lives and in modelling groups. Obviously we at GAG are still unable to meet up but Mike has been working away on another amazing building for Dunallander. Here are the first images of Victoria Hall which I'm sure you will agree look splendid.

Stay safe.