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==== Meetings ==== | ==== Meetings ==== | ||
- | **Sunday | + | **Sunday |
- | Venue Shawlands Scout Hall, Glasgow, G41 4AE | + | Venue Shawlands Scout Hall, Glasgow, |
+ | Open Day\\ | ||
- | **January' | + | {{ :public: |
- | The morning session will have two presentations, | + | Note postcode |
- | **A cloud over your layout?**\\ | + | |
- | You may have heard of "The Cloud", | + | |
- | being monitored and controlled remotely via the internet. Chic Thomson will show | + | |
- | you simple and cheap hardware and software means of controlling / monitoring | + | |
- | aspects of your layout from a browser, both locally, and from anywhere.\\ | + | |
- | **Layout options**\\ | + | |
- | Starting a new layout? Do you know your dog bone from your folded figure-of eight? | + | |
- | When to use turntables, sector plates and traversers? Davy Dick looks at | + | |
- | the options, benefits and drawbacks of different track layouts – from tiny 24” x 24” | + | |
- | layouts to massive club layouts.\\ | + | |
- | These sessions last all morning, so you have to choose which one you want to attend.\\ | + | |
- | Since we have to pay extra to hire the hall for the morning, there will be an additional | + | |
- | donation of £1 per attender, on top of the normal afternoon £3 donation. | + | |
- | You might also want to bring along a packed lunch.\\ | + | |
- | **Afternoon sessions**\\ | + | |
- | The main Area Group meeting will run from 1pm to approx 5pm, depending upon the | + | |
- | amount of questions and discussion. As an experiment, we will have a slightly longer tea | + | |
- | break around 3pm.\\ | + | |
- | The afternoon session will have two presentations-\\ | + | |
- | **A Guide To Track Laying:**\\ | + | |
- | Keith Shovelin will cover the basic aspects of track laying | + | |
- | including gauge/scale , types of track, methods of fixing | + | |
- | track, techniques for improving loco adhesion, ballasting, | + | |
- | weathering and more...\\ | + | |
- | **The Faller road system**\\ | + | |
- | John Bowman and Donald McDonald will cover the | + | |
- | model car system designed to work alongside model | + | |
- | railways. The self-powered vehicles (cars, trucks, | + | |
- | buses) run automatically and can stop at traffic lights, | + | |
- | railroad crossings and stations.\\ | + | |
- | To meet fire regulations, | + | |
- | will also have a tick box indicating that the entry donation has been recorded.\\ | + | |
- | Please let me know as soon as possible if you are | + | |
- | able to attend the January meeting. | + | |
- | Also, please let me know which morning session you | + | |
- | want to attend.\\ | + | |
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- | Email me if you are interested. Use the [[https:// | ||
- | MERG Members may email or PM [[https:// | ||
- | Davy Dick \\ | ||
- | WoSAG Leader | ||
- | ==== Exhibitions with a West of Scotland MERG stand in 2017 ==== | ||
- | |||
- | Kilmarnock MRC 4/5 Feb Volunteer Rooms, Parterre, Irvine KA12 0BA\\ | ||
- | Model Rail Scotland 25 to 27 Feb SECC, Exhibition Way, Glasgow G3 8YW\\ | ||
- | Kyle MRC 20/21 May Auchenharvie Academy, Low Street, Stevenston, KA20 3JW\\ | ||
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