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OVEMBER 2011

Edited by Brad

Who has little better to do with his time obviously.

IAUGERAL MAILA SMUT IGHT

OVEMBER 6THWell it was a combination of our SMUT group and that of the Philippine Railway Historical Society Modellers Group

who meet in Manila (Philippines, as opposed to the Northern NSW town with two ls in its name).

Attending from Australia were MrX, MrPecker and myself, with a local contingent including Karel, Roberto, Mark and

Phil. Between us, a very interesting selection of train and plane models of varying types and sizes.

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Phil and Tessie Clark with Pia at the

Mabini Mansion SMUT/PRHS

Modelling ight.

MrX contemplating sleep

Catching up with the local aviation

(or Avnormals as they say) fans andmodellers in Pasay City.

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HEATHCOTE SMUT IGHT

OVEMBER 26TH

It has been a awful long time since any SMUT activity has taken place in our satellite rooms down at

Heathcote.

A major whoopsie by a coal train a little further south meant no train action, of any consequence anyway, was to take place and

as such more modelling than normal was achieved. Possibly hampered a little by the regular supply of Bundy beverages from the

Terry collection.

We were delighted to have the attendance of a new member of our very small group, with Corrimals #1 son Shane Johnson com-

ing along to see hat we get up to and if all the rumours are true. He also scored a free HO scale GM for his trouble :-)

Terry busied himself with a refrigerator van after about an hour of frustration trying to locate some hatches for it.

Brad continued the slow task of trying to get some sort of coal hoppers together for a fictitious layout based on the SMR, while

he also made a start on converting some cheap American tanker into something far more closely resembling one from the Philip-

pines - hes other project.

Colonel was very busy assisting the sugarcane farmers in the Bundaberg district.

Some of Tezzas planes.

Investigating how best to convert to a

Philippine TC tanker.

^ - Terrys plane collection certainly causedsome excitement among attendees.

< - So many pieces - so little time. Checkingout the coal hopper situation.

We were obviously soon distracted by a very

lovely visitor.

Modelling? What modelling? >

Two shots to the left show work pro-

gressing on Tezzas Rockdale layout

and a drawing of the ultimate track

< layout.

Oh yes, did I mention our visitor? >

Terry is relieved to have found the

missing roof hatches and settles

down for an evening of model re-

frigerator van construction, with a

sausage and adobo intermission. >

Oh yeah, thats right, I nearly for-got to mention our special visitor

above.