More sawdust

Had a great day at the Liverpool exhibition on Saturday, followed by an evening at Roy's for a BBQ / layout operation / alfresco slide night. At Liverpool I ran into Tom, and the Roberts Bros. At Roy's I caught up with Brad & Nate from the Strange Modellers or Universal Trains, my Best Man, Glenn, and his old mate Ben, Aaron H, and a few new faces including Rodney & Dodgy as well. I paid a return visit to Liverpool on Sunday, then after an afternoon with Alison's mum at Cabra-Vale Diggers (her regular Sunday outing), it was back into the garage for more bench work.

Shooting the breeze with Glenn & Dodgy at "Bradfield" on Saturday evening.

Driving the projector for the outdoor slide show. Material included South African / Zimbabwe steam from 1996, and a fair bit of the Illawarra / Short South in the early-mid 90s. Also some Melbourne & Queensland trips for old times' sake.

Glenn & Roy autographing Nate's copy of the latest offering from Bow River Publishing, Volume II of the Walsh Island power cars.

With Hoges & Steve at Liverpool on Sunday. We needed a third Streamliners 2016 cap.

 

Drilling one of the ten splice plates for joining the girders.

 

All legs (including the short ones for the trestle bridge area), splice plates and various widths of horizontal brace ready to go on Sunday evening.

 Expecting to make a final trip to Liverpool on Monday morning, then a concerted effort to cut the diagonal braces and gussets to try to have everything ready for assembly this week.
Cheers for now.