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11 results found for 'Bob Barlow'
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Cars and Vans
Issue 129 (2001)
p.211
7mm, 4mm, 2mm
Review of diecast and kit-built road vehicles by Bob Barlow
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Doing the Diorama
Issue 125 (2001)
p.61
7mm
During 14 years in MRJ's editorial hotseat, Bob Barlow built a whole series of diorama, mainly to provide backdrops for the cover, finding them an interesting way to satisfy the modelling urge within severe time and space limits. Now that he's moved on, he's still at it - tis time in 7mm.
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East Suffolk Ramblings
Issue 150 (2004)
p.82
4mm
In the early 1980s, the East Suffolk ight was the definitive statement of the finescale ethos - which, to a degree, it still is. It looked beautiful, it broke acres of new ground and at times it ran abominably. More to the point, MRJ was born amid its rambling trackage and bleak salt marshes. Twenty-odd years on, Iain Rice explains what the ESLR was all about, while Bob Barlow's captions pick out some of the things that worked brilliantly andothers that didn't.
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Etched signal box in 2mm scale
Issue 1 (1985)
p.29
2mm
Churchward Models 2mm scale etched kit for a GWR timber signal box.
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Inkerman Street
Compendium 2 (1994)
p.3
7mm
The full story of MRJ's 7mm project layout 'Inkerman Street', based in 1940s Salford.
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Inkerman Street
Issue 15 (1987)
p.166
7mm/0
The MRJ team is building - or perhaps 'organising' would be a better word - a minimum-space exhibition layout in 7mm scale. It's radical in concept, experimental in nature - and it worries us all to death. Editor Bob Barlow tells of the uncomfortable birth-pangs of 'Inkerman Street, LMS' and, in committing it to print, ensures that we finish it.
1940 LMS (ex-L&Y).
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Inkerman Street - The Structures
Issue 41 (1990)
p.557
7mm
Seeking out and selecting the prototypes to suit our project was good fun, says Bob Barlow, but turning them into models was a bigger job than he expected.
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Speedy Stock Suspension
Issue 9 (1986)
p.170
4mm/P4, 4mm/EM
One of the things that drew Bob Barlow towards P4 was the sight of a slowly rolling train of wagons with daylight flickering between the spokes, unencumbered by oversize flanges. Finescale wheels need help to stay on the rails, but it need not be a hard job.
Overview of various methods of wagon suspension/compensation and the available components, including Scalefour Society rocking W-irons, Locomotion pivot units, and Hammond springing units.
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The Finescale Chronicles
Compendium 2 (1994)
p.61
Techniques may improve and products grow ever more sophisticated, but the desire to build better model railways - the 'finescale attitude' - is nothing new. Innovators and improvers have been chasing realism since the early years of this century, spreading the good word trough books, magazines and other forms of print. Collecting this published wisdom is both educational and satisfying, especially for those whose lives allow less time at the workbench than they would like. MRJ editor Bob Barlow has been collecting for years, and offers it as a rewarding pastime for fellow modellers.
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The MRJ Exhibition Report
Issue 43 (1990)
p.647
A historic turning point for the hobby - or something else? Experiences, views and reactions on a unique event, rounded up by Bob Barlow.