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Edited by Tim Shackleton
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Small Suppliers Forum
p.162
Alan Gibson - 7mm wheel range back in production. Branchlines - new owners. High Level Kits - gearbox speed calculator. Morgan Gilbert - gearbox speed calculator. Lochgorm Kits - 7mm scale Highland Railway Dia 19 (LMS Dia 26) six-wheel five-compartment third coach kit. Studio Scale Models - Irish P4 sprung and 3-point suspension units for freight stock. Geoff Taylor / Sara Heller - professionally painted backscenes made to order. Brassmasters - 00 axle spacing gauges. Cambridge Custom Transfers - specialised decal sets (sheets BL85 & BL86) for 12T tank wagons. Chivers Finelines - 4mm injection-moulded BR dia 1/570 20T dropside ballast wagon kit.
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45440
p.163
4mm/EM
For some time I had been watching, with considerable interest, developments in the 4mm scale RTR field. When I saw what Tim Shackleton had achieved with the Hornby 'Black 5' in MRJ 138, I had to have a go myself (writes Gerry Beale). The result is 'Fifty-four, Forty', the famous Bath 'Black Five' as she appeared in numerous Ivo Peters photographs when working on the Somerset & Dorset line in the 1950s.
Hornby 'Black Five' with Comet bogie, frame overlays and tender chassis, Alan Gibson wheels and Brassmasters detailing kit.
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Tired Timber and Faded Lettering
p.167
A simplified way of painting ex-private owner wagons in their final days, described by Roger Marsh.
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MRJ Portfolio
p.170
4mm
A pair of static cranes built to 4mm scale by Gordon Gravett, representing the pair that once worked the quayside at Kingswear in Devon.
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Misummer at Midsomer Norton
p.172
2mm/2mm FS
This subtle evocation of Mendip tranquility belies the fierce operational intensity of a summer Saturday on the Somerset & Dorset. Jim Allwood takes us on a tour of Alan Smith's 2mm finescale rendition of a classic S&D location.
Alan Smith's accurate scale model of Misomer Norton station on the Somerset & Dorset Railway.
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Double Standards
p.181
4mm/P4, 7mm/7mm FS
Tim Shackleton builds a pair of BR Standard moguls in different scales - and finds a big variation in approach as well as in quality.
Tim builds a 4mm DJH 77000 and 7mm 78000 BR Standard mogul 2-6-0 and assesses the relative merits of the kits as well as the constructional techniques and level of detailing required in each scale.
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Small Suppliers Plus: 2mm scale trackbuilding takes giant step forward
p.188
2mm/2mm FS
Easitrac - 2mm finescale track system (flexible plastic track bases) and jig for plain track produced by the 2mm Scale Association.
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A Classic Commercial
p.189
7mm
Snub-nosed like a boxer, the petrol-engined Fordson 7V was a distinctive sight on British roads for more than two decades. Maurice Hardacre builds a pair of these V8-powered workhorses in 7mm scale.
Classic Commercials kit.
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Private Owner Sketchbook
p.192
Bill Hudson looks at some wagons from the Charles Roberts Order Books where no photographs have come to light.
Colour livery illustrations and details for 6 private owner wagons built between 1893 and 1923.
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Regulatory Practices
p.194
Former footplateman Bob Essery offers some points on prototypical driving technique.
Prototype considerations for correct train operation, focusing on speed, acceleration and braking etc.
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[Photos: Pempoul]
p.196
1:50
Two colour photos of Gordon Gravett's 'Pempoul' to be featured in the next issue of MRJ.
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Wagon Loads in the 1930s
p.197
4mm/EM
Mick Moore discovers the difference between pipes and tubes.
LMS tube wagons built from improved Colin Ashby kits.
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[Photo: Weathered LMS twin diesels]
p.200
4mm/EM
Photo of a pair of FIA Trains LMS Co-Co diesels (10000 & 10001) weathered by Tim Shackleton