Aus7 Members and Friends,

After quite a wait and more than a few requests from members I’m happy to announce that the Index of past issues of 7th Heaven has been uploaded to the web site on the page 7th Heaven Index where you will find a locked XL spreadsheet of every issue of 7th Heaven up to #64. The spreadsheet has a search capability which you can use on the home page of the spread sheet. Look for the binoculars icon labelled find and select.

But that’s not all….

On the page 7th Heaven Past Issues you will find PDF files for the first 39 issues of 7th Heaven which are available to anyone visiting the site. These PDFs are very high quality and are the same files we send to the printers. I will be progressively uploading more back issues as time permits however there will always be a lag between what is available as a PDF from the web site and the printed editions available for purchase from our Secretary Chris Lord.

I’d like to thank the exec team for their helping to make this resource available: Anthony for his work on the index in the past and for his efforts in supplying back issues, Paul for providing me with more recent issues, testing the uploads and of course for editing 7th Heaven for the past 12 years, Lionel for taking on the job of keeping the Index up to date and Chris for always being there and going above and beyond in every job I throw at him.

Members, the most recent issue of 7th Heaven was posted about 10 days ago. If you haven’t yet received your copy this is either because it’s gone missing in the mail or your membership has lapsed. All memberships lapse on June 30 of the previous year but you will continue getting the next two issues past this date to provide some leeway. We have had this process in place for over 14 years. An oversight in the issue published in the middle of last year meant that no reminder was published. We have never sent out individual reminders to lapsed members, we have neither the time nor the resources. Please contact Chris Lord if you have a query and please write on your diary/calendar that all memberships are again due this June 30 for the 2020/2021 year. His email is available in any recent issue of 7th Heaven or you can contact him via the Groupsio group or on Facebook. Please try to keep in mind that it is not Chris’ responsibility for your lapsed membership. If you have a concern or a complaint contact me.

Trevor Hodges

President

trevorchodges@gmail.com

Aus7 Modellers Group Membership Application Form

Forum Bring & Buy

North Sydney Leagues Club, Saturday the 26^th of Oct 2019

The Bring & Buy will allow attendees at the Forum to sell excess model railway items to others at the Forum. The conditions of selling or buying are detailed in full in the document “Selling and Buying Guidelines” available from the Aus7 Modellers Group web site. The following are the main details:

• Registration should occur before 9.30am with selling concluding at 12.45pm.
• Selling on the Bring and Buy table is free to all members.
• All sale items should be of general relevance and interest to O-scale modellers (1:43.5 & 1:48, SG or NG)
• Security for items placed on the table are the responsibility of the owner. The Aus7 Modellers Group will take all reasonable steps to keep the items safe however will accept no financial responsibility for items lost or misplaced.

Please contact the President with any queries.