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Better than Compensation?
Issue 72 (1994)
p.193
4mm/P4
Bob How tries a new leaf-spring system on his 4mm wagons - and accepted wisdom goes out of the window.
Masokits sprung W-irons
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Holloway Juunction
Issue 237 (2015)
p.77
4mm/S4
Bob How's King's Cross in P4 featured in MRJ 195. Here is a glimpse of the junction which feeds into Gasworks Tunnel.
Photographs
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Manual Turnout Operation
Issue 237 (2015)
p.65
Bob How describes a simple manual system for areas of the layout where point motors are not necessary
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The Impossible Dream
Issue 195 (2009)
p.296
4mm/P4
Bob How coolly decided to build King's Cross in P4 in defiance of the then current nostrums; and he aimed to do it alone. It is a work in progress and will be for many years but already the 'Tees Tyne' has departed in good order from Platform 6 under handsignals and set off down the main.
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The 'Two-Bob' Airfix Mineral Improved
Issue 47 (1991)
p.147
4mm
The famous 'two-bob Airfix' rolling stock kits don't cost two-bob any more and they are not made by Airfix (in fact, they are priced at well over two quid and come from Dapol these days) - but they still represent a beautifully made and fundamentally accurate basis from which to m ake high quality 4mm scale models. Bob How took one of the most popular - both in prototype and kit terms - and this is the reluctant scribbler's report.
Dapol mineral wagon kit
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Tie Bars for King's Cross
Issue 216 (2012)
p.169
4mm/S4
Bob How describes how he arranges turnout operation on his large S4 model of King's Cross