tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90633266551073439062024-02-20T18:37:49.714-08:003mm Society3mm Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021855275176281599noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063326655107343906.post-43225039947810289482016-08-15T11:10:00.000-07:002016-09-05T12:17:02.508-07:00Baby Deltic<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Scr<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">atch/kit bashing a class 23 <i>Ba</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>by Deltic</i> in 3mm scale</span></span></span>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">W<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">hilst idly browsing</span> and glancing at this <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">image</span> I was struck by the similarity between the class 23 and class 37 outline and I wondered if English Electric had used the same cab structure design for the class 23 as they did for the 37s and 40s.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">C<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">omparison</span> of the drawings in “British Rail Main Line Diesel Locomotives” by Colin Marsden indicate<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">d</span> that yes, they probably did.</span></span> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10.0pt;">At this point I remembered that I'd bought the L&J Models 3mm scale class 40 body kit years ago but had never built it because
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10.0pt;">So, that old L&J Models body, why chop it up? Well, it was a brave effort in 3mm scale, but it has just a few too many serious issues with it, the coarseness of the detail on the cast-whitemetal bogie sideframes for example.<br /> </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj59qgMuJ2EqILnI_yFm9RYkSYgXN0WTCbDY0zLxL9ohPp1V1o_HpoHa50Sl6FbUxnlmRT-VVyAC-U2AER1CSrbEtWkjNfh_uVpT2FURJ6lb6MPlhhU2D-Ds3D6W_mu61wBOWMyVgOZlk0/s1600/bdblog70.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj59qgMuJ2EqILnI_yFm9RYkSYgXN0WTCbDY0zLxL9ohPp1V1o_HpoHa50Sl6FbUxnlmRT-VVyAC-U2AER1CSrbEtWkjNfh_uVpT2FURJ6lb6MPlhhU2D-Ds3D6W_mu61wBOWMyVgOZlk0/s200/bdblog70.jpg" width="200" /></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Piko is a former East-German company that’s made good post-reuinification. Previously Piko only produced
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw3ct8JNqa14uXKdMcisIrSsGVZZSzac_oymyZRr5A2H7h5T6S0NkwG9jZOmZ85UYDpHszsin6hy1Ug6Scr-rTmKldwT_4pE-KSl7tb_fSOulMZSLXHqc4OyYUuRmSprHC_vcnUHbgDsA/s1600/bdblog80.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw3ct8JNqa14uXKdMcisIrSsGVZZSzac_oymyZRr5A2H7h5T6S0NkwG9jZOmZ85UYDpHszsin6hy1Ug6Scr-rTmKldwT_4pE-KSl7tb_fSOulMZSLXHqc4OyYUuRmSprHC_vcnUHbgDsA/s200/bdblog80.jpg" width="200" /></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The two things that need to be addressed are that the bogie centre-to-centre dimension is wrong as the bogies need to be sitting further apart within the frame, and they will also need new sideframes.</span><br />
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chassis frame itself is a one-piece casting of some kind of heavy lead-like alloy, so
cutting and shaping requires a junior hacksaw and an engineering
file. The loco comes with very clear diagrams on how everything fits together and how to take it apart, so the chassis is stripped bare, then cut in half with the hacksaw. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The next stage is to find all those little details like shutters, louvres, fans, grilles, beading, buffers etc...</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10.0pt;">So trawling through my various "bits" boxes turns up quite a few goodies, whitemetal bogie sideframe castings (I think from a class 20), roof panels, fan, louvres etc... The window beading is from a class 50 kit and unfortunately a little bit over-sized, but I'm willing to live with it and don't think it will be too noticeable once they are painted black and the windows are glazed.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The chassis has had the sideframes and Bachmann couplings mounted on the bogies using araldite, and is now fully re-assembled, painted, wired and tested; runs smoothly. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Without hesitation it has to be 9509. This was the only member of the class to receive the BR Corporate Blue livery, the 9 other members of the class staying in green right up to the end. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10.0pt;">It was also the last class 23 in service, being withdrawn on the 7th of March 1971. (So she also outlived pounds, shillings and pence by a fortnight, decimalisation day having been in mid February of 1971.)</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10.0pt;">As the lightest colour, yellow goes first, then it's masked off with tape and two coats of Railmatch BR blue aerosol applied. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Decals are from the 3mm Society Modern Image transfers sheet and a coat of matt varnish seals everything. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Glazing, hand rails and a little weathering are the final tasks.</span><br />
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is a mixture of liquid PVA-based in the side windows, and individually
shaped "flush glaze" in the cab screen windows. These require a lot of
patience and good magnification as 6 little individual rounded shapes
have to be formed with a needle file out of tiddly little transparent
squares cut from strips of clear pastic salvaged from Ferrero Rocher
boxes; </span></span><br />
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3mm Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021855275176281599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063326655107343906.post-77345733011441559242015-12-28T02:19:00.000-08:002015-12-29T22:21:06.844-08:00Biog: Howard Love<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Howard is another stalwart of the 3mm Society, a member
since 1969 and a regular competitor and winner of the AGM "Ralph Murfitt trophy" buildings and structures competition, having won it 8 times. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">How did you get
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">I have always had a preference for smaller scale
models. I was born in </span><span style="font-size: small;"><st1:city style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: "arial";">
during the War and had a typical modellers’ childhood; clockwork Hornby,
Rovex/Tri-Ang, with excursions into card Micro models, Airfix, and model
Aircraft.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">When Tri-Ang introduced TT3 in the 1950's it was a size that
suited my parent’s house and I soon purchased a Jinty and some lengths of Wrenn
and Welkut track. To me it still is the “Goldilocks” scale; not too big, not
too small, but just right. I continued modelling during my student years,
mainly layouts of small branch lines, as was the custom of the 1960's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">I originally joined the 3mm Society in 1969 purely for the
“Mixed Traffic” magazine after having seen publicity in the model railway press
for the new Local Area group being set up in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Manchester</st1:city></st1:place>. So I was very surprised one day
by Derek Samson knocking at my front door and inviting me to the group meeting,
which I continued to attend for many happy years. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Howard (l) and Iain Rice (r)<br />
Okehampton c.1981</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">What gauge do you
model?</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">12mm gauge because of my stock built over the years being
compatible with the Tri-Ang that I started out with. But if I was starting out in
3mm over again I would opt for 14.2mm finescale from the outset - the gauge/rail ratio is so much more convincing. I think that future developments in our
scale will probably be in that direction.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">What period do you
model? </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">Generally I model the GWR circa 1920, but not dogmatically.
I'm quite flexible on the period, having a range of locos and stock dating from
about 1890 to the 1930's. I'm also building up a collection of LMS, and SR
locos with their trains. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">The architecture on my layout is based on the late
Victorian/Edwardian period, as are the figures, with a fairly neutral pre 1920
style of clothing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">The figures are individually sculpted in Milliput and Bruce Hoyle (of the
3mm Society) cast them for me. There must be several hundred on the layout by now,
with more yet to be added.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">You bring a unique
artistic and architectural eye to your modelling, how did your method develop?</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">I started out studying Art and Design at </span><span style="font-size: small;"><st1:place style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Art</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">College</st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial";">.
Throughout my career I have always worked in associated areas, initially
advertising and book illustration, followed by twenty years in teaching of both
children and adults and latterly as a free-lance artist in </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on">England</st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "arial";">, and now in </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">France</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "arial";">. A lot of my commissions
were for large highly-detailed house portraits, and a range of
architecturally-correct ceramic models. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">Modelling buildings has developed over my years working in
3mm. As I wanted to build larger layouts including villages and towns I had to
develop methods to enable me to do this as there were no commercially available
products. (With the exception of BIlteezi 3mm scale card kits, which appeared
on just about every 3mm layout!) Home-made designs failed to convince me and I
progressively turned towards using photographs of actual buildings and making
my own drawings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">I found printed brick paper too flat and plastic sheet brick
work too rounded and the mortar lines exaggerated. So I started scoring 1mm
lines in shellac-prepared 1mm card (left-over mounting board.) After the
horizontals I added some vertical score lines. An overall brick colour was then
applied, not as a flat surface but with subtle colour changes. Individual
bricks were then picked out in a range of related </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">colours and tones. Windows and door frames are cut from 0.5mm card, pre-painted and cut out with a sharp craft scalpel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">Most buildings are box structures, but if I find them too
flimsy I reinforce them with internal partitions. Lintels and sills are added
as separate layers. The fun part for me comes with cutting out and applying all
the "tiddlybits", such as decorative mouldings, plinths, window details,
signboards and assorted lettering. Glazing material comes from the plastic
boxes that delicious French pastries come in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">This is finally followed by weathering. I remember post-war </span><span style="font-size: small;"><st1:city style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: "arial";"> as being </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">almost in black and white or dull sepia. Together with the
horrific air pollution of the late Victorian period this has lead me to use a
toned down and subdued palette of colours - less Downton Abbey, more Ripper St,
crossed with Peaky Blinders!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">I then photograph the model in daylight. When viewed on the
computer I </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">can examine the differences between the original and the
model, to </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">see what modifications could be made. </span><br />
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buildings that you are particularly proud of?</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Without a doubt the model of my wife's family home in South Chorlton, a large Victorian building which was the local undertakers. I examined various old family photos and a series of drawings done by my wife as a young art student.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Conversations with family members gave me further details about the garden, rabbit hutches and the coffin-making work shop and I made very detailed scale plans before starting construction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The model was a “thank you” for her patience and support towards my hobby (sometimes more like an obsession!). Over the years we have always managed to find a house with a spare room or space for a layout. She is also my sternest critic, coolly pointing out any errors or weaknesses I have tried to overlook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Various factors came together in the early 1990's leading to a general disenchantment with life in the UK and the 18% mortgage rates of the time. At the time we already had an old farmhouse in the isolated backwoods of southern Brittany which we used as a base for holiday "indoor camping", so with early retirement and a small pension we decided to opt for a simpler lifestyle and use the farmhouse to continue doing freelance work and base ourselves in France. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The house was very primitive by modern standards, and generally still is! But the past 25 years have been a very interesting and rewarding experience. Unfortunately this means I normally work in isolation with few contacts with other modellers, apart from the annual excursion back to the UK to attend the 3mm Society AGM. One particular feature of the house is the old cowshed, which now houses my layout.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">The Cowshed Layout, AKA Long </span><span style="font-size: small;"><st1:place style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on">Acre</st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial";">
Road, is the latest and perhaps the last of a long line of layouts down the years in modelling 3mm. After dissatisfaction with end-to-end branch
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">When we first moved here the farmhouse had a large back shed, 40ft x 15ft, where I rapidly started
on an ambitious layout; four track long runs in the style of Sonning Cutting,
with a large junction station, and in the central length a <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">long branch</st1:city></st1:place> line, a terminus, and a clay
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">It was great fun watching long double headed passenger or
goods trains vanishing off into the distance. Unfortunately this layout was destroyed
overnight during a violent storm when the roof of the shed was ripped off and
timbers, masonry and slates rained down on the layout. Some of the buildings
survived purely by chance, but I was finding wagons and coaches in the garden
for days later.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">After a pause of a few months Ann suggested that we could
convert the cowshed, (part of the main building, and conveniently next to the
Kitchen) which would give me 21ft x 21ft. Preparatory work included knocking a
doorway through a three foot crumbling stone wall to gain access and it was six
months before I was able to start work on the baseboards in the year 2000.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">The layout is standard 12mm gauge, using Society track and
hand built points (based on C&L 16.5 plans, reduced down by 25%). The 40
odd points are controlled by the 'push pull' system with built-in polarity
switches, or at a distance using the old but reliable H&M motors. (Many
thanks must go to Bruce Smetham for his expertise in wiring up the layout using
Cab control.)</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">To the right of the lifting bridge as you go in there is a
double track, brick-built viaduct, running some 16 to 17 feet almost along the length of the room.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">In front of the viaduct is my version of a Victorian/Edwardian high
street in a small market town, with a Town Hall, Hotel and Pubs and numerous
houses and shops.</span></div>
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buildings become more industrial with factories and warehouses. At the rear,
behind the viaduct is another raised area, almost 8ft long, representing more
industrial developments with a track and a couple of sidings. Like many areas
of the layout, this is still being developed.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">Continuing left leads to the board containing the principal
station. At the end, and behind the viaduct, there is a small park, almost
hidden. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">On the other side of the road is a row of Edwardian semi-detached
houses next to a church, constructed from a modified 4mm scale Bilteeze kit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">The Station building is an enlarged version of Much Wenlock,
with the usual associated buildings, goods shed, stables, engine shed coaling
stage etc. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">A spur in front of the engine
shed leads to the site of a future gas works. Large tin cans currently crudely
represent the positions of future gasometers.</span></div>
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house backs, based on Bilteeze card kits, with added weathering and detailing.
Multiple tracks lead from the station to the third side of the room, containing
eight storage loops for complete rakes of passenger and freight stock.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">After completion of the storage line baseboard I decided to
add an extra narrow board in front. This board was dropped about 6 inches to
allow me to build a six foot long Brunel wooden viaduct. This gave me the
chance to extend the independant branch line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">To complicate matters further I have added a replacement
brick viaduct under construction, showing the building of brick arches with
their wooden formers, using reference from early Victorian photographs.</span></div>
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the mainline double track and the branchline cross a pair of bridges over a
river, the branch line crosses over a latticework bridge and the mainline over
a girder bridge. The station is based on Abbotsbury.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">Over the past 15 years the layout has reached a fairly
advanced state, but is still nowhere near finished. The range of locos include
commissioned pieces by Iain Rice and by a friend. Other locos are built from
kits in white metal, resin and etched brass and a few scratch built. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">Coaching stock has been built over many years and the current range of stock is
mainly based on Etched brass kits from various sources including Worsley Works
and 3mm society kits. There are a couple that were home etched items made as
experiments many years ago. The freight stock is unremarkable, again plastic
and etched kits and some modified Tri-Ang. I have also built a rake of outside
frame parcel vans from card.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">Every model, be it loco, wagon, coach, building or whatever
gives me satisfaction (after the trials and tribulations of the build!). The
excitement of starting a project, and the relief of finishing it gives me the
motivation to go on to the next one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">Each model has it's own little part in the overall “master
plan”. If I become stuck or frustrated during a project I move on to something
else for a while, and then come back to it later. Although I live physically out of contact
with other modellers, it is nice to have the virtual community of the on-line
3mm Society e-group as a source of advice and discussion which has often
pointed me in the right direction. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Do you model in any
other scale apart from 3mm, or outside model railways?</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">A little, and then mainly only for friends; I built an O
gauge diesel shunter in card, which actually looked quite tidy when it was
finished, Abbotsbury Station in 4mm, and a rather complicated LNER Suburban
Station in 2mm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">I also dabbled a bit with a small EM gauge shunting layout
to explore 4mm scale, but this didn't develop further, and a long time ago I
briefly tried a garden railway but this was cut short by moving house.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">I find there is enough variety of subject matter in building
a layout, apart from the railway aspect, such as the vernacular architecture,
road transport, which includes buses and lorries, and horse drawn vehicles, to
form a separate hobby.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">I can imagine myself being completely sidetracked into
building hansom cabs, steam driven lorries, open deck buses and trams! But I
try to discipline myself to concentrate on the needs of the current layout.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">The destroyed layout had clay loading wharves, so I had
built a small steam cargo vessel, a small paddle steamer, and a sailing barge.
This was a new area of modelling for me and I found it a delightful change from
what I had been doing previously.</span><br />
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give to someone starting out in 3mm scale?</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">I would suggest starting with a basic plastic kit to get the
feel of the scale, followed by making up small modules using standard or
finescale track to see what suited your level of skill. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">I've always started by reading about a new area of interest
in books or magazines, and by talking to as many people as possible to get the benefit of their experience in things such as chasis construction,
or different types of gear boxes. All of my models are based on plans, and
photographic reference material.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">Apart from some school metalwork classes which I had in the last century, some </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">engineering training would have been welcome. Chassis building </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">requires much higher levels of accuracy than I am accustomed to when just </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">chopping card.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">Theory is all very well, but only by doing it, and accepting
that your first efforts will probably end up in the bin, do you progress. I
have had to learn by practical experience, and trial and error. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">As an old teacher once said to me about motivating pupils,
"Success breeds success" Seeing a new scratch-built loco or a rake of
coaches running around the layout is deeply satisfying.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">If I lent you a magic wand, what product for 3mm scale would you magic into existence?</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">My magic wand would lead back towards the time of white
metal kits, this was a technique that I feel was under-exploited. The early
loco kits were simple models to construct, but capable of being detailed to a
reasonable level. Alan Searle’s model of the 45xx loco indicated what could be
achieved in white metal and requiring only moderate modelling skills. I feel
that there is a gap in the market between the basic cast models and the more
demanding and complex etched-brass. I imagine that in the near future
hi-definition 3D printing will play a major role in kit production, probably as
hybrid kits combining etched or resin components as it may not be the entire
solution.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">More patience for myself would also come in handy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Warley National Model Railway Exhibition, held annually at the NEC (National Exhibition Centre)
in Birmingham, is the UK's premier model railway exhibition with over 90
layouts, society and trade stands from major and minor manufacturers,
publications, traders, dealers and demonstrations of every conceivable
scale, gauge and technique. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Held over the weekend of 28/29 November 2015 with over 10,000 visitors on the Saturday, 3mm scale was very well represented
with an entire section comprising of the 3mm Society Publicity stand,
5 layouts and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Andrew Shillito (New Products Officer) and </span>Peter Bennett
(Publicity Officer) giving
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The layouts proved popular and drew sizeable crowds of onlookers, with</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Steve Fackrell showing "Teignford", </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">very rare occurance of an </span>all-exclusively 3mm scale public exhibition <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">had</span> an impressive total of 14 layouts, with <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a few still being</span> work-in-progress,<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>on display. The variety of layouts demonstrates the versatility and possibilities of 3mm scale, from "traditional" 12mm gauge through 14.2mm finescale, from steam-era to Modern Image, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to</span> the truly esoteric with Irish <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">B</span>road and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">N</span>arrow gauges represented. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All the buildings are replicas or are closely based on real buildings, mostly from the Northampton area. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sabins End is a small country terminus station somewhere in England. The local buildings are all built of stone, so if the rolling stock is Southern or Great Western it could be set in Dorset, or if they are LMS or LNER - maybe it is Yorkshire?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The layout is built in modular form on two baseboards 4' x 18'. Track work is by GEM, locomotives are white metal kits running on Triang chassis, rolling stock is modified Tri-Ang rt<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">r </span>and kits by Peco, GEM, Esanel, K’s, Kitmaster, BEC and the 3mm Society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Buildings are mostly made from card kits from the 3mm/TT range by Bilteezi, the mill building is a Scalescenes.com warehouse re-scaled to 3mm. Platform edging and the road bridge are modified Peco N gauge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wadebridge started life in 12mm gauge and was first taken to a meeting to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the 3mm Society in Salisbury in 1990. A start had been made on the buildings and trains were running. The track had been constructed using bullhead rail soldered to etched baseplates from Ken Garratt and then soldered to PCB sleepers. Chairs, including keys, were fabricated from plasticard strip. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Turnouts are operated from the original control panel by Fulgurex motors under the baseboard using a mechanism devised by John. The track is laid on 1/8” cork sheet using plywood sleepers, plastic chairs and finescale bullhead rail from the 3mm Society. Ballasting is in progress using sieved stone from Meldon quarry. Tiebars are fabricated from custom etches fitted to PCB hidden by the cork layer. A layer of ballast will be applied to the PCB - you don’t notice that the ballast moves with the tiebars! This trick is adapted from the original 12mm layout.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The layout is set in the 1930s and many 3mm kits have been collected and built over the years. This includes Beattie Well tanks and O2s from Jidenco with scratchbuilt chassis. Many of the original SR Jidenco kits were reduced in collaboration with 3SMR in addition to those produced by the 3mm Society. The Society also produce the 45xx from Churchward and Dave Finney reduced the T9 from Martin Finney as a trial for 3mm scale. John Bateman and John Walker have also collaborated with David Andrews to reduce his U and N kits. Locomotives built from these kits now provide the mainstay of services for Wadebridge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Coaches have been obtained from Worsley Works and Branchlines as well as the Society and the Society offer a superb range of wagon kits from the likes of Parkside and Cambrian, amongst others. Andrew Thomas produces etched chassis to match.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finnegan’s Crossing is a 4 foot by 4 foot circular exhibition layout, with some provision for shunting (a loop and a siding), and lots of provision for just letting the trains run, and discussing them with anyone interested enough to listen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Track is Peco 009, with the points controlled by wire in tube, with additional microswitches to confirm polarity. The buildings use Alphagraphix kits as templates, scaled down to 3mm.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>The trees are Bowden cable and/rubberised horsehair, and the hedges are wire wool. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The only unusual feature is probably the street-lighting, which was done cheaply using discarded Christmas tree bulbs under the layout and fibre-optic from a light filament toy run up the brass tube light standards.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rolling stock is a mixture of scratchbuilt (by Mark and Paul Windle), kitbuilt using Worsley Works kits, and some home made resin castings from masters by Paul, Charles Insley, and Mark himself. There are also now some 3D printed wagons and coaches available. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If anyone else is interested in TT9, then Mark would love to hear from you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ballyconnell Road is a unique creation in being 3mm scale Irish 5'3" gauge and is a team effort by </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Laurence Hendry, Stephen Moor, Mick Rawlings and Andrew Shillito. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The layout is a model of an imaginary station on an imaginary part of the Great Northern Railway of Ireland, being an extension of the Bundoran branch southward toward Sligo. We imagine Ballyconnell to be a seaside resort to match the attractions of Bundoran itself (which in reality it does not, but this is our bit of railway and we can imagine what we like) and also is close to the Bayrites mines so we have tourism and industry to add to the more likely traffics of cattle and the local populace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The layout is famously circular with a 7’ outside diameter and a small through station and single fiddleyard at the rear – set up for one person operation. The beauty of this arrangement is that you get some 15’ of running line between exiting and re-entering the fiddleyard. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What can a visitor to this part of Ireland expect to see? How about a sleepy country station with a working goods yard, mainly bullhead track (made from 3mm society & Ian Osborne components), fully signalled with typical GNRI lower quadrants (scratchbuilt with Worsley arms and operated (fairly successfully!) by servos) and a wide selection of local motive power and rolling stock. Much of that is scratchbuilt or kit bashed (Worsley) – look out for the inside motion on many of the steam locos. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Passenger stock is mainly Worsley and Bill Bedford, the railbus is based on a resin body and railcar “A” is scratchbuilt in nickel silver. Freight stock is entirely plastic; some are 3mm society Parkside kits converted to Irish prototypes, but the majority are scratchbuilt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The track is built from code 70 bullhead rail soldered to copper-clad sleepers. Points are controlled by wire-in-tube using DPDT slide switches to throw the point blades and change the polarity of the frog. Most of the buildings are scratchbuilt from laminated plasticard, but the road bridge, walls and fences are modified N-gauge products. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The locomotives are mainly from etched brass kits and represent prototypes that could be seen on the line before and during the preservation era, plus some personal favourites! Passenger rolling stock is a mixture of Kitmaster Mk1<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>and Worsley Works coaches all running on compensated bogies. Freight stock is from a variety of 3mm Society kits.</span></div>
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Norton Folgate - David Wheelton & Jim Barry</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">The
Aldgate Hill extension from Old Street was opened by the Great Northern Railway
in 1888 in order to gain access to London’s east end and the docks in
particular. Unfortunately for the GNR by this time the GER and the NLR had this
traffic all but sewn up so that only the passenger facilities were
built. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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layout depicts the rail blue period between 1969 and 1975 (up to and including
the TOPS renumbering). This allows green diesels with ‘D’ numbers through to
blue locomotives with TOPS numbers to run together with a mixture of rolling
stock. Trains portrayed are the local suburban turns to Finsbury Park and
Hitchin (class 31 and non corridor coaches) with through coaches for Leeds and
Newcastle to be attached to trains from Kings Cross at Hitchin. Other traffic
is mainly Newspapers for the distribution centre at Norton Folgate and the
occasional engineering train.</span></div>
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as a salute to CJ Freezers famous ‘Minories’ concept, the layout has been built
using Ratio track and points by 3SMR. This layout could not have
been built without the 3mm society and the few independent suppliers brave
enough to be involved in this scale. Use has been made where appropriate of old
Triang models such as signals, the class 31s and modified suburban coaches. All
other items of rolling stock are either kit or scratch built. The majority of
the buildings on the layout make use of the excellent download kits from
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Melrose Town is a small fictitious town on the Hertfordshire/Suffolk border. It is served by a terminal line which branches east off the Cambridge to Bishop Stortford main line at Calderwood Junction, a fictitious station south of the town of Calderwood. Here the line diverges and enters a tunnel, climbing to emerge from the tunnel a short distance from the approach to Melrose Town station</span>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Melrose Town station has three main passenger platforms and a bay platform, all covered by an impressive roof. The bay platform acts as head shunt for Melrose Creamery. The creamery is situated on the south side of the station approach, before the road over bridge, and comprises a loading platform and two sidings for loading milk tankers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Melrose Town is home to a tramway system, the Melrose Town Electric Traction Co., started in 1920 to provide cheap transport to nearby towns and villages. In 1948 it was decided to update the system and replace its ageing original open top tramcars. At this time the tram system in Rotherham was closing so a bid was made for the eleven redundant single ended tram cars on their system.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The bid was successful and the trams were transferred by road to Melrose Town. Now in 1960 the system has been reduced in size, as routes to local towns and villages have been taken over by bus services, and routes have had track lifted and overhead wires and support poles taken down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bigbury represents a terminal station off the GWR main line in Devon The layout is built on four baseboards, two of which are reclaimed from a layout built by a colleague that otherwise would have been scrapped.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This event was Bigbury's last public appearance as it has now been retired from the exhibition circuit and has been passed on to a fellow 3mm Society member, and Paul is now in the planning stages for a new GWR-themed layout. </span></div>
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3mm Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021855275176281599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063326655107343906.post-73646804061125297672015-11-05T10:00:00.000-08:002015-11-05T15:00:47.824-08:00Biog: Tony Seal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 21.3px;">Tony is a long-standing and well-known member of the Society, partly due to the 11 years he spent as Membership Secretary between 2004 and 2015, partly for the astounding 18 times that he has won the AGM "Cuckmere Trophy" competition as a carriage-builder </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 21.3px;"><i>par excellence</i>, <span style="line-height: 21.3px;">but also for having published the carriage </span></span><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 21.7733px;">construction handbook "</span></span><span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 21.7733px;">Flatpack Coach Kits & What I Do To Them<span style="line-height: 21.7733px;">"<span class="ecxapple-converted-space" style="line-height: 21.7733px;"> </span></span></span><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 21.7733px;">in 2003. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.9333px;">But anyway, during the next few years I added to this collection from a shop in Singapore that just happened to have little yellow boxes stacked from floor to ceiling. And being Singapore the ceilings are unusually high to be able to get the fans in and therefore the air circulating…</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.9333px;">Yes, I joined the Royal Navy on 12th</span><sup style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; line-height: 15.7778px;"></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.9333px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.9333px;">September 1955, came out on 20th January 1979 and was based in Singapore from 1962 to 1965. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.9333px;">I have just attended our 60th reunion, over 30 turned up out of 200, not bad considering</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.9333px;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.9333px;">Anno Domini</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.9333px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.9333px;">and us being scattered all over the world. Two came from Australia and one from the USA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.9333px;">As the Flight Electrical Senior Rate I had charge of the Torpedo Body Room which was equipped with a decent sized workbench which was ideal. (Modelling also kept me away from the mess bar on some evenings.) </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.9333px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.9333px;">So I effectively became a 3mm modeller by default and have continued with the scale ever since, going into kit building as I discovered such things after returning home and joining the 3mm Society in 1974. The only other scale I have ever used was O Gauge tinplate in my extreme youth, but when I joined the Royal Navy my mother gave the lot to the church jumble sale. Gnashing of teeth!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.9333px;">1930’s Southern Railway, I was born in 1939 and was brought up in South London with rail lines all around Lewisham. However, they were almost exclusively EMU lines, so the only steam I saw or heard was the daily pick up/transfer goods, usually an ex-SECR C class 0-6-0 and then mainly at night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.9333px;">However, from the end of the war I spent between 2 and 4 weeks on the Isle of Wight every year and revelled in the railway system over there. My parents took advantage of the Luggage In Advance system to get the family trunk delivered to Sandown, then we took the train down from Waterloo, again all EMU. Later, I joined the Church Lads Brigade and the St Mary's CofE Old Boy's school club and spent the 4 weeks in various bell tents. All within walking distance of the Bembridge Branch, until they closed it, then later across the flood plain fields to Brading.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.9333px;">I mainly use the old GEM 12mm gauge track and points in the viewing areas of my layouts, it may be old but it is very robust, can be used to good effect and is still relatively easy to find, even to the extent of finding mint and boxed new-old-stock. For the hidden areas I use anything that’s available as well as a cassette system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 16pt;">My first love is London Transport buses, my Father worked for London Transport out of Old Kent Road </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 16pt;">garage from the late 1940’s and then out of New Cross after the trams stopped running in 1952. I cycled all over London </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 16pt;">and the Home Counties (the bike was a fixed wheel type) until I had visited every garage belonging to LT, Central, Country and Trolleybus. I have built up a collection of 1:76 models of Buses, Trams and Trolleybuses to total over 100 with at least 70 still to build (eBay is a wonderful invention!) and they range from 1909-1969, so from "Old Bill" to the end of LONDON TRANSPORT in full on the buses. I had forgotten how many variations there were before the RT and Routemaster standardised everything.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.9333px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.9333px; text-align: justify;">You become aware that you are perhaps not half bad at something when you start winning trophies - and that started after I completed my time for pension in the RN and joined the Civil Service at the Aircraft & Armament Experimental Establishment Boscombe Down, swapping the blue suit for a white coat and carrying on, being now in charge of the Avionics Workshop.</span><br />
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time I have built something like 500 coaches, a couple of hundred as
commissions for other people, and the rest for myself. I get a lot of
satisfaction with building SR sets, if I have built them well.</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.9333px; text-align: justify;"> </span></div>
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is shown when you step back to look along the set and all the coaches
are of the same height and are all riding in the same plane. After all, a
loco and to some extent a wagon is a one-off, therefore your train will
have no uniformity, whereas a rake of coaches has.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.9333px; text-align: justify;">I have been fortunate in being able to construct a fully insulated and heated loft conversion with proper staircase access and fitted with Velux windows to house my layout, workshop and study.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.9333px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.9333px; text-align: justify;">My present layout is my fifth (the first being an MPD, the second a circuit with a Terminus to one side, the 3rd a branch terminus in a shed and the 4th was a representation of Guildford to Havant main line. (John Bateman, a fellow Society member, said "</span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.9333px; text-align: justify;">Blimey! Clapham Junction!</i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.9333px; text-align: justify;">" when he first saw it) but is still in the embryonic stages. When up and running it will extend to some 40 feet of double track mainline. It portrays the line from Havant through Fratton to Portsmouth & Southsea. The only building so far on the layout is Havant Station, which was salvaged from my second layout.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.9333px; text-align: justify;">The only thing I would like to see is an internal corridor wall supplied with each coach kit where appropriate. That is perhaps the most tedious thing to do; measuring, marking and cutting out individual plastikard corridor walls and partitions for each coach, often of different configurations. That’s the whole trouble - there’s no such thing as standard!</span></div>
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<b><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tony, thank you very much for taking the time to share with us and we look forward to seeing your latest creations at the next 3mm Society AGM in Burton on Trent on Saturday 14th May 2016.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another 2015 Anniversary AGM <i>50 Something</i> challenge layout - 3mm scale 12mm gauge built by Nigel Cullimore of the Dorset group. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The layout is set in North London in 1969 as a branch from West Ealing station serving the North Ealing area. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The
main traffic in later years is to "Hoods" the local coal merchant, and to
"Read's" Engineering works in addition to commuter traffic at the High
Level terminus. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The miners' strike in 1972 will force a 3-day
week, power cuts and a coal shortage resulting in many businesses
closing, including both "Hood's" and "Read's". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This
combined with local families moving to London overspill towns like
Andover and Basingstoke will lead to the closure of the branch in 1974,
leaving just the London Underground station and buses to serve the area. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teignford </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teignford is a British Railways (Western Region) layout located in South Devon built by Steve Fackrell of the Dorset group. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Modelled in 3mm scale with a gauge of 12mm it is Steve's second layout in what he feels is the Premier scale. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teignford
is an area producing clay and has industries associated with this
production. A weekly livestock market is held nearby thus bringing
traffic to the station. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The layout
has ply-topped baseboards framed with 2"x1" softwood to which the legs
are slotted into. Trackwork is all Peco HOm with pointwork operated by
wire-in-tube with polarity changing switches. </span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Buildings are a mixture of kit-built (the station building) and
scratch-built principally from artists' mounting board covered with a
selection of brick/stone paper and contoured plastic sheet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rolling
stock is kit built with locos being a mix of
white metal and etched brass bodies with etched chassis mostly driven by
Mashima motors and Branchlines 40:1 gearboxes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Coaches are a mix of plastic kits
from the 3mm Society and etched brass from Worsley Works or Brynkits.
Most of the wagons on show are from the 3mm Society range with some
etched brass from Finney & Smith. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WestFest 2016 </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WestFest was first established in 2007 with the intention that the hosting of the annual show would rotate between the various West Country Area groups, with 2015 having been hosted by the South West group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For 2016 the baton is passed to the North Wilts group and will be held in Royal Wooton Basset. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">See you there! </span>3mm Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021855275176281599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063326655107343906.post-44060334995910610792015-09-18T10:04:00.000-07:002015-09-18T23:30:50.610-07:00WestFest 2015 - Part 3<h2 class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">An
annual exhibition organised by the South West local group. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part 3</span></b><br />
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Heybridge
Wharf</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">50 Something</i>
challenge 3mm scale 14.2mm gauge layout by Mike Corp of the Bristol/Avon group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Heybridge</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Wharf is purely fictitious and is situated somewhere
in Suffolk as
one of the last inland wharfs still operating. The railway was built under the
Light Railways Act as the Hey Light Railway to connect the town of Heybridge to the Great Eastern Main Line via Heybridge Wharf.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The trains from the main line enter Heybridge Wharf via the line between the Church
and the gas works. This is the end of the line for the stock not allowed to
proceed along the tramway to Heybridge
Town. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Those that are
allowed will run round their train and proceed along the tramway squeezed
between the gas works and Colly Tobbold's brewery. The wharf receives one of
the last barges still trading, but now converted with a diesel engine.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The layout is built of plywood with 3mm
Society 14.2mm gauge track and the pointwork from 3SMR. Points are operated by
Hoffmann stall point motors and couplings are adapted B&B. </span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Rolling stock is
from Finney & Smith (who are now no longer trading), Worsley Works and the
3mm Society. Whilst some of the buildings are scratch built, most are super-detailed
Bilteezi card kits.</span></div>
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Dunkton Combe </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A Great Western 3mm scale 12mm gauge layout presented by
Richard Pope of the North Wilts Group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">History: The line ran from Limpley Stoke, on
the Bath - Westbury line, to Hallatrow on the Bristol - Frome line. </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In real life, the line closed to passengers
in 1925. The section from Hallatrow to Camerton closed completely in 1932 after
all the local rail-served collieries were worked out. A service of one coal
train a day, also carrying small amounts of other local goods, continued from
Limpley Stoke until the Camerton Colliery closed in 1950. The remaining goods
service to the school and mill at Monkton Combe ended in 1951.</span></div>
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Limpley Stoke and Dunkerton have remained open into the mid-1950s, with a basic
service of 5 passenger and one goods train per day on weekdays and Saturdays. There
is normally no service on Sunday but you may see a ballast train arrive, run
round and depart again to work further back along the line. Passengers are
mainly workers at the nearby mill (owned by T R Freeman & Sons and
producing flock for filling matresses) and day boys at the public school. The
mill and school also account for most of the goods traffic. </span></div>
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station "Dunkton Combe", as a compromise between Dunkerton and
Monkton Combe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not an accurate
model of either station, though both had a station building similar to the one
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as "one engine in steam". There are no signals or signal boxes and
all points are worked by hand. There is no loco shed at the terminus, nor any
facility for watering locos. Train movements are adapted from the February 1912
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A Midland
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">This layout represents a double track
through station loosely based on Foss Cross on the Midland & South Western
Junction Railway (MSWJR). The concept is that the MSWJR continued as a
secondary route through the Cotswolds despite the Great Western Railway's
endeavours to rationalise it. You can legitimately run though trains from the
LMS in the north and the Southern Railway in the south, as well as a wide
variety of Great Western types and (in the later period) Midland and Southern
Region as well as the local Western Region and British Railways stock.</span></div>
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fiddleyard at each end with a model of a through station in the middle. The
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Saturday 12<sup>th</sup>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">WestFest 2015 - </i>an
annual exhibition organised by the South West local group. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Part 2</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">West Street </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Another <i>50 Something </i>from this year's AGM; a BR LMR goods warehouse and yard, modelled by Geoff Gay of the South West group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Addison Park </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Continuing the London Transport theme is Addison Park, an imaginary location situated in West London very close to Kensington Addison Road (aka "Olympia") station. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Modelled by Phil Hutchings of the Chilterns group, it brings the charm of things such as Routemasters, Trolleybusses and Underground "R" and "F" stock to the world of 3mm. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Saturday 12<sup>th</sup>
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