An Evening With...
Forthcoming Events
Will Heath

Join Will Heath who will show us how to make buildings with card materials.

The event is live via Zoom on Tuseday 26th March @ 20:00 GMT.

You must register for this event as places are limited. The event is FREE to members or £2:00 for non-members.

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Previous Events
Nick Dunhill

Nick Dunhill showed us how to cut sheet metal materials making sure that cuts are straight. Plus lots more including cutting circles and soldering items to ensure they are square.

The event was live via Zoom on Monday 26th February @ 20:00 GMT

Members can view a recording of the event.

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Neil Armitage

Neil Armitage of Ellis Clark Trains took us through weathering techniques, using the new Ellis Clark Black 5 locomotive as his subject.

The event was live via Zoom on Thursday 25th January @ 20:00 GMT.

Duration 1:13:49
Iain Young

Iain Young discussed how to produce lost wax castings in brass and nickel silver for the kits he produces and for other kit producers.

Although seen as a black art Iain dispelled this myth and showed that, with care, consistent and accurate results can be produced.

A preview video is also available where Iain demonstrates the processes involved.

The event was live via Zoom on Sunday 26th November @ 20:00 GMT.

Preview video - duration 0:23:05
Evening with video - duration 2:01:08
Jakub Stachula

Jakub took us through the steps to build and finish a simple station shelter from modular laser cut parts.

Along the way Jakub showed part finished models for each stage in the build, which will hopefully help to reduce any problems you might encounter with laser cut kits.

The event was live via Zoom on Thursday 26th October @ 20:00 BST.

Duration 1:24:03
Neil Armitage

Neil Armitage of Ellis Clark Trains provided a step by step guide to weathering ready to run O gauge rolling stock. Neil's hints and top tips are down to earth, cost effective options for the novice and experienced modeller alike to turn an 'out of the box' loco into a realistic model.

The event was live via Zoom on Tuesday 26th September @ 20:00 BST.

Duration 1:18:04
Rob Anderson

Join Rob Anderson from Northumbrian Painting Services for an evening of figure painting. Rob Anderson will share his tips and techniques for painting figures in O gauge.

The event was live via Zoom on Saturday 26th August @ 20:00 BST.

Duration 1:38:53
John Gay

Spend an evening with John Gay of Digitrains Ltd where he discussed the installation of a DCC decoder to an O Gauge locomotive and took a range of questions.

The event was live via Zoom on Wednesday 26th July @ 20:00 BST.

Duration 1:26:17
Nick Dunhill

Nick Dunhill continued his series of presentations on scratch building a locomotive. This time he showed us how to build the locomotive frames and associated parts to go under the locomotive body.

It follows the boiler, smokebox, firebox and footplate demonstrations from earlier sessions.

If you have not seen them already, you can still watch them via the Gauge O Guild YouTube channel, just search for Nick Dunhill.

The event was live via Zoom on Monday 26th June @ 20:00 BST.

Duration 1:34:42
Will Heath & Jackie Kneeshaw

Spend ‘An Evening With’ Will Heath & Jackie Kneeshaw who talked about researching and building St Neots MRC layout, Bowaters Paper Mill.

Will and Jackie gave some insight into why St Neots Model Railway Club chose to model a corner of Kemsley Mill on the Bowaters Paper railway, which operated in the Kent marshes up until 1969. The seminar included how they went about researching this industrial railway and what challenges it presented to model.

With some of the original locomotives still in steam on the Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway (SKLR), and an extensive Bowaters archive to draw upon, the project has proved to be much more than just a model.

The event was live via Zoom on Friday 26th May @ 20:00 BST.

Duration 1:52:15
Peter Reynolds

Peter Reynolds and guests discussed how to control your model railway, showcasing some of the more affordable DCC systems available for modeller’s use, plus other layout control options, including traditional DC, and direct Bluetooth Control. Mention was also be made of radio control.

Peter invited modellers with experience of various systems to come and briefly talk about their experiences with the systems that they use, plus systems that Peter uses, and others he has researched specifically for the programme.

The event was live via Zoom on Wednesday 26th April @ 20:00 BST.

Due to technical problems Peter was not able to take part in the second half of the evening. He subsequently recorded his contribution in a separate Appendix video.

Duration 1:47:17
Duration 50:17
Simon George

Spend an Evening With Simon George, the owner and builder of Heaton Lodge Junction, Britains Biggest Model Railway.

This O gauge layout is 196 feet x 40 feet which depicts the location situated two miles west of Mirfield. Heaton Lodge Junction was where the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway’s Calder Valley route and the London & North Western Railway lines converged and even up to the mid-1980s this was a busy route with more than 130 trains a day in each direction, more than half of which were freight.

Simon talked about what made him want to build it in the first place; how long it took to build, how long to find a ‘home' for such a large model railway, and what is involved with logistics when taking it out for other people to see.

The event was live via Zoom on Sunday 26th March @ 20:00 BST.

Duration 1:45:12

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