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Issue 23 1988 « Previous issue | Next issue »
Edited by Bob Barlow & Gerry Beale
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Lambourne - the GWR across the Berkshire Downs
p.138
4mm/P4
Although it was quite a time in gestation, Lambourne is very much a fine essay in 4mm finescale. And while Ian Harrison was particularly choosey in narrowing down a suitable prototype, it was by no means a simple translation. Here's how tenacity made it happen.
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No. 1 Shop: Up-and-over gearbox for 2mm
p.149
2mm
Pete Wright's answer to a drive train problem.
in an N1
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Rubber-Sprung Wagon Buffers
p.150
W.A.M. Barter suggests that the less reactive properties of rubber give model buffers more prototypical performance than the coil-sprung variety.
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Developments in 7mm Trackwork
p.151
7mm
Bob Essery, in the second and final part of his investigation of trackwork, moves on to modelling it in 7mm.
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MRJ Portfolio
p.162
4mm/P4
Bill Richmond's S4 model of the LNWR main line - Tring cutting.
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Nemesis - the S&D 2-8-0
p.163
4mm/EM
Iain Rice describes this tale as "The Thrilling Travails of Sir Iain d'Ambroise in combat with the The Mendip Monster, Recounted by Himself at the conclusion of his Triumph!" - but then he would, wouldn't he? The truth, it seems, is that he took years and years to build a loco that very nearly beat him.
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Small Suppliers Forum
p.169
Ron Cadman - reduction of range. RJH - Cavalier Coaches. George Norton - 'Cauliflower' kit. Compass Models - Stanier 0-4-4 tank kit. Howes of Oxford - windscreen wiper mouldings. Model Bus Co. - LTGL 'TF' single decker. Track construction book. Modellers' lathes. Modern prototype transfers. 7mm figures. Isinglass - LNER drawings. Andy Mullins - rolling stock and components. Eastwell Iron Works - corrugated iron. Caley Coaches - class 498 0-6-0 4mm kit. 7mm scale track.