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Edited by Bob Barlow
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Small Suppliers Forum
p.162
Harburn Hobbies limited edition Scottish Lima class 37. Taylor Plastic Models 2mm etched gangway rubbing plates. CGW Nameplates 4mm etched class 47 nameplates. Hurst Models 'Trainsfers' royal train waterslide transfers. MJT 4mm buffer heads. Leamington & Warwick MRS badges. Knit-one-purl-one Duchesse pins. Peter Thatcher 7mm etched nameplates. Francis Samish 009 Peckett saddle tank kit.Roy C. Link insustrial narrow gauge handbook. Parkside Dundas 4mm BR 12-ton fish van, BR 16-ton mineral wagon (dia.1/109) and 7mm wagon kits. Dragon Models LNWR wagon rub-down transfers. Cottage Farm Industries executive garden studios.
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Westford goes EM
p.163
4mm/EM
Nigel French found his original layout boring, so he revamped it - and took the chance to move from 00 to EM.
Late 1930s SR layout based on Swanage.
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Wagon Springing
p.175
7mm/S7
Bob Essery and Don Field on wagon suspension for the 7mm/ScaleSeven Dewsbury project, using the recently-developed Slater's system.
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Layout Design: South Ridings
p.178
Garden railway terminus in garden shed.
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Arthurian Legends
p.180
4mm/EM
Guy Williams, Pendon's local hero, builds a 4mm 'King Arthur' - and naturally chooses Sir Guy, named after a local hero from legend.
Includes detailed scale drawings.
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Coach Hinges
p.188
John Hayes describes a mass-production technique for the fiddliest of fiddly components, door hinges.
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Kit-bashing an etched 4mm coach
p.189
4mm
Andrew Lambert combines kit and scratchbuilding techniques to make an LMS Stanier corridor third coach using Comet Models' parts as the basis.
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LMS Wagon Miscellany - No.3
p.195
4mm
In his third article in this series on 4mm vehicles, Martin Goodall moves on to vans.
LMS 12-ton goods vans (diagrams 1891 & 1897) based on the Ratio kit.
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Workshop Matters: Heavy Duty Soldering
p.197
In this sequence, Laurie Griffin looks at a method of soldering large pieces of metal together (in this case, the frames of a 7mm locomotive) and also considers a useful alternative to soft solder.
Multi-weld silver-bearing solder paste, blowtorch and heat resistant blocks.
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Archive: The Glasgow & South Western Railway 381 Class and 128 Class 4-6-0s
p.198
The first in an occasional series designed to provide modellers with research sources, particularly for less common prototypes.