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Issue 113 1999 « Previous issue | Next issue »
Edited by Martyn Welch
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Small Suppliers Forum
p.202
Connoisseur Models LSWR 24T brake van kit in 7mm. London Road Models LNWR 28ft 4-wheel coach kits and L&Y D13, D14 and D20 saloon coach kits in 4mm. Slater's Plastikard GWR 6-wheel single-tank and double-tank milk wagon kits and transfers in 7mm. Cambridge Custom Transfers GWR Super Saloon transfers. Parkside 4mm wagon transfers. BR 16T mineral wagon transfers and BR iron ore tippler transfers in 4mm. Comet Models Period II dias D1717 and D1782 LMS coach kits in 4mm. Classic Commercials figures in 7mm.
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Roundhouse
p.203
7mm
Following on from MRJ N0. 109, John Dornom has been secretly beavering away at yet another stunning creation and this time it's all done by mirrors.
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A pair of GWR vans
p.215
4mm
John Hayes describes the construction of two GWR vans based on Cooper Craft mouldings and portrayed as running in the 1940s.
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Straight-cut point blades
p.220
J.R. Snowdon describes construction of point blades with the prototypical kink in the stock rail at the hinge between the switch blade and the closure rail.
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Point Rodding
p.223
4mm
Point rodding and signal wire runs are seldom modelled accurately, if at all, and a lack of prototype information causes this stumbling block in most cases. In this first article, Steve Hall describes the prototype and its functions while part two will deal with his methods of modelling the items described.
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NER Lattice Footbridge
p.235
4mm
Over 25 years after that famous George Alan kit of a GWR footbridge, Steve Barnfield tries another - a 4mm NER version from Fence Houses Model Foundry - and finds that lessons have been learnt.