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Edited by Gerry Beale
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Model Loco Finishing
p.42
7mm
Malcolm Mitchell is renowned for his exquisite workmanship in loco kit building, so ew asked him to pass on a few tips which might help the rest of us improve. The example he uses is a 7mm scale GWR 45XX Prairie.
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Hiding the Joint
p.47
Gordon Gravett describes techniques to help hide baseboard joints.
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7mm Autotrain
p.51
7mm
Ace model painter Alan Brackenborough gives us his take on modelling the GWR's much-loved autotrains in 7mm scale.
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Small Suppliers Forum
p.55
CSP Model Marketing release three new 4mm kits developed form the Agenoria 7mm range - Peckett 'E' class loco based on the GWR version, Plymouth & Devonport Railway Hawthorne-Leslie 0-6-0T loco No. 3 (later SR E756) PD&SWJR Hawthorne-Leslie 0-6-2T loco - and a new kit for the GWR 0-6-0 Pannier tank; Mark Humphreys introduces shorting strips for use with Ultrascale wheels fitted to split-frame chasses; Cambridge Custom Transfers releases lettering for BR Mk 1 coaching stock.
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GWR Siphon G in 4mm scale
p.56
4mm
Gerry Beale takes a long established RTR model and upgrades it with a bespoke underframe kit
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Manual Turnout Operation
p.65
Bob How describes a simple manual system for areas of the layout where point motors are not necessary
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Modelling complex track formations (part 2)
p.71
Following on from MRJ No. 234, Howard Bolton concentrates on the sub-assemblies.
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Worcester Inspirations
p.74
4mm/P4
Based on a photograph in GWRJ No. 50, John Darch has incorporated the bridge and canal over the Worcester & Biringham canal, just to the west of Rainbow Hill Jct., on his P4 'Worseter' layout which is based on the railways of Worcester and Gloucester.
Photographs
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Barrow Road progress
p.76
4mm/P4
Interior view of the Bristol Barrow Road roundhouse
Photograph
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Holloway Juunction
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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Real Atmosphere
p.78
Photographs of a wintry scene at ex-LNWR Aber station in the late 1950s.
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MRJ Portfolio
p.81
4mm
Atmospheric shot of a down-at-heel ex-LMS upper quadrant signal on Brettel Road, Jim Smith-Wrigh's 4mm scale layout based on the GWR sidings at Birmingham Moor Street.