Look what dropped through the letter box this morning.
Moving from an OO gauge micro-layout to an EM gauge compromise, via a rather major diversion into both 7 1/4" gauge and minimal space OO9
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An excellent book James by a master modeller, it's full of lovely plans, interesting modelling techniques and photos of the completed models.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you will enjoy it and soon be inspired to reach for some card.
Geoff
I've been after a copy for ages,and I'm not disappointed.
DeleteSnap! Mine came through last week! I only recently discovered it existed and I've been a fan since I was 8! 53 years ago!
ReplyDeleteMartin
Lovely book! I found a copy for 50p in the Welsh Highland bookshop in Portmadog a few years ago, along with 'Scenic Modelling' by P.D. Hancock, a Railway Modeller "Shows-you-how" booklet, also 50p! Best model railway bargains I've ever come across, and proof that it pays to leaf through those old piles of magazines and pamphlets that grow in shop corners!
ReplyDeleteLooking through it now it is quite odd as far as first impressions go. The photos appear slightly less polished than some that I'm used to - can someone remind me what year it was published, I'm guessing late 50s - but what comes out is the sense of a thought-through scene and of a model based on an observed reality. As a result, as at Pendon, you feel the models are of interest for the history they capture.
DeleteHas anyone found a modern substitute for the type of card he was using his peeled layers technique on? Interesting as well that he seems to have used poster paint.
Paul, I'm afraid I had to pay more than 50p!
Peco published the book in 1958 James so you weren't far off, there is a rather interesting article in an early issue of MRJ about the Stokes by Malcolm Mitchell who was on friendly terms with them as a young schoolboy.
ReplyDeleteI have tried the card peeling technique and used the card backing from A4 pads of paper and the cheaper ring binders with some success.
Geoff.
DeleteI did have that MRJ. It was one of a large collection of MRJs, NG&IR an MORILLs that went missing whilst in storage between house moves. My parents knew them from when he was running a model shop in the early 60s.
Although I only did it accidentally it proved possible on the Lcut signal box to peel off the top surface of individual bricks