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Issue 242 2015 « Previous issue | Next issue »
Edited by Paul Karau
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Small Suppliers Forum
p.242
Modelu high-resolution 3D printed detailing components and 3D scanned scale figures. Penbits Model Railways new spring diesel bogie kits for the Heljan Class 47 and BRCW Lion Type 4 prototype. Brassmasters re-introduction of Martin Finney-designed 4mm scale kits for the Aberdare 2-6-0, 2301 Dean Goods 0-6-0, 1854 and 2721 0-6-0PT, 47XX 2-8-0, 21XX/51XX/61XX 2-6-2T, Dean 2.500 gallon tender, Dean 3,000 gallon tender and Collett 4,000 gallon tender.
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Manchester MRS's 90th
p.243
Advertisement for the Manchester MRS's 90th anniversary exhibition, featuring 2 photos of Martin Stringer's 7mm scale layout 'Tollesbury Quay' inspired by the Kelvedon and Tollesbury Light Railway.
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Tales from the Chitting Shed
p.245
Frequently attracted by the unusual, Bob Barlow was so taken with Lincolnshire's potato railways that he intended to capture the scene in 7mm. Iain Rice related the story.
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Lowleigh - A Western Region backwater: Part 2
p.252
4mm/00
Continued from issue 241.
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LMS Cattle Truck - Diagram D1661 in 4mm scale
p.255
4mm
Gerry Beale builds a recently released kit for a very useful wagon.
Parkside Dundas kit.
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Improved Lining
p.258
Rodney Cooper explains his latest update,
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An Update on Llanfair
p.259
4mm/EM
Roger Lycett-Smith has kindly sent in a few recent pictures of his EM gauge Cambrian Railways Llanfair terminus which, despite being squeezed into a tiny space, even incorporates two private sidings serving a quarry and a mill. Since it was last featured he has replaced the station building with a more authentic design.
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MRJ Portfolio
p.263
4mm/P4
Two photos of Richard Harper's P4 model of Sidmouth, featured fully in issue 243.
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Ex-LNER BR 61632 Belvoir Castle in 1957 condition
p.266
4mm/P4
This P4 gem uses a concoction from various sources to represent the prototype. Tom Mallard made substantial use of Dave Bradwell's B1 chassis kit, whilst the key bodywork parts were from a combination of specially commissioned etches and sheet metal cut and built up by hand. Here he outlines the construction.
LNER B2 class 4-6-0.
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MRJ Protfolio
p.269
7mm
Two photos of a 7mm scale model of the Bourne End Up Branch home signals built by Peter Squibb, to be featured in more detail in an upcoming issue.
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Croft
p.270
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MRJ doesn't normally stray above 7mm scale modelling, but this is one of the occasions when we do so in order to show you Mike Palmer's Gauge One indoor branch-line scene.
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Optical Wheel Quartering using a Laser
p.271
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Real Atmosphere
p.274
Three photos showing the changing liveries of Smith's Potato Estates lorries between 1937 and 1952/3.
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MRJ Portfolio
p.276
4mm/EM
Two photos of Gerry Beale's Martin Finney-built model of GWR No. 2912 'Saint Ambrose', reguaged to EM and repainted (from its original guise as 2920 'Saint David').
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Two 4mm Bedfords
p.277
4mm
Paul Karau builds two Bedford lorries using Road Transport Images components.
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[Photos] Esso tanker at Nocton Mill
p.278
Three photos showing Esso tanker, an Austin K4, at Nocton Mill, discharging supplies of paraffin into rail-mounted storage tanks carried on adapted ex-WD wagons, and used to transport fuel direct to farm tractors working in the fields.