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==== Meetings ==== | ==== Meetings ==== | ||
- | **Sunday 15th January 2017**\\ | ||
- | Venue Shawlands Scout Hall, Glasgow, G41 4AE | ||
- | **January' | ||
- | The morning session will have two presentations, | ||
- | **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 ==== | ||
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- | 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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