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5 results found for 'John Birkett-Smith'
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Ashburton
Issue 94 (1997)
p.99
2mm
John Birkett-Smith recovered a surgical cast-off to create this 2mm portrayal of a favourite Devon prototype.
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Buildings in the Smaller Scales
Issue 256 (2017)
p.177
2mm, 3mm, 4mm
John Burkett-Smith describes his techniques for constructing buildings in smaller scales (2mm-4mm)
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Copenhagen Fields - the baseboards
Issue 18 (1987)
p.258
2mm
The layout under construction by a group of the Model Railway Club's 2mm scale modellers is one of the most talked about modelling projects for years. Everything about 'Copenhagen Fields' is radical and needs to be - for 'Chiltern Green' is a hard act to follow. Here, Tim Watson, John Birkett-Smith and Mike Randall discuss the layout's remarkable baseboards in the first of several articles which will trace the project's development.
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Painted Backscenes
Issue 266 (2018)
p.263
John Burkett-Smith's visually stunning layouts have been widely admired for the way he sets the railway in the landscape. A not insignificant factor in hits are the beautiful back scenes. Here John outlines the techniques and materials used in their creation
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Totnes, change for the Ashburton Branch
Issue 205 (2011)
p.43
2mm/N
Like John Birkett-Smith, many of us were inspired by seeing 'Chiltern Green' under construction at Central Hall, one Easter. Today, John's imaginative portrayal of Totnes, is the inspiration to those of us that enjoy seeing a railway modelled within its landscape, a concept so suited to 2mm scale.