Model Railway Journal No 163

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Denys Brownlee's 2mm finescale 'Flying Scotsman, and Monty Wells' superbly weathered MR covered goods wagon. Today’s Railways occasionally if an article or two appeals but probably at least once every three months.

In the event Model Railway Journal (by now often referred to just by its intials MRJ) proved a huge success, its second year's volume ran to six issues and by the spring of 1987 when issue 13 arrived it was planned that eight issues would be produced each year.

In the third part of his widely acclaimed series, Chris Crofts, having discussed the anatomy of common private owner wagons at length, gets down to modelling them in 4mm. Here he describes his own perfectionist methods for building and painting bodywork.

Help, encouragement, fellowship and goods. Mike Williams explains how the Scalefour Society's objects are put into practice. Iain Rice's little bit of Suffolk in Devon is finished at last. It's taken a while, but, to be fair, he did have to do it all by pushbike! 'The Mills' is an ideal P4 starter - or a useful sharpener for the more experienced.In MRJ issue 104 Bob Barlow relinquished the editorial chair after 14 years and 105 editorials and announced that Martyn Welch would be succeeding him.

BR / British Railways / British Rail, diesel locomotives, RTR / kit conversions, RTR / ready-to-run, wheels Peter Squibb models a 4mm model of a GWR signal from Churston on the Kingswear branch with functioning route indicator. St. Merryn – Towards Improved Operation, Part 1 by Eddie Bourne [Scalefour Society’s South London Area Group]Returning to MRJ, John Dornom had found a new way to add real "atmosphere" to his models using a disco fog producing machine and after a brief introduction in MRJ 92 he provided a full article on his extraordinary experiments in Issue 97 as illustrated on its cover.

buildings, engine sheds / motive power depots / MPDs, GWR / Great Western Railway, layouts, LMS / London Midland & Scottish Railway, scratchbuilding Richard Butler describes the evolution of Westcliffe, his EM gauge evocation of a GWR coastal terminus at holiday time From issue number 65 in 1993 MRJ changed its cover design for a second time to the style illustrated by issue number 97 on the right. The number and range of contributors was growing, although there had also been some departures detailing, drawings / plans, GWR / Great Western Railway, No. 1 Shop, RTR / kit conversions, RTR / ready-to-run, steam locomotives Beth Evans, keeper of the all-important Scalefour Stores, discusses the growth of the society's trading armand the occasional problems of modellers confronted by a woman who really knows her stuff. The 'we', incidentally, refers to Beth and her husband Clive, who happens to be the society Chairman.

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W.A.M. Barter suggests that the less reactive properties of rubber give model buffers more prototypical performance than the coil-sprung variety. I was going to answer "Nothing that comes in a plastic bag!" but reading some other answers has gotten me thinking. I do tend to avoid anything in a plastic wrapper, unless I know in advance that there's a particular article I want to read. I tend to Buy Rail Express frequently, and Rail and the Railway Magazine regularly depending if there's anything of interest. Often, I find I'll buy one or the other of similar subjects have been covered, but it depends what's in it. I no longer buy any religiously, I'd rather read what I find interesting, and like the difference in style between RM and Rail. Other features included prototype reference material, a detailed article covering Ross on Wye's ex Broad Gauge goods shed and the intricacies of modelling Brunel's baulk road. The issue was rounded off with an exposition on working auto couplers based upon the "Sprat and Winkle" etched product and a feature entitled "Portfolio" which for this preview issue highlighted the breathtaking architectural modelling of George Iliffe Stokes. Trevor Pott describes how he built and detailed the Southward Bridge (now Roxey Mouldings) etched tradesman's bicycle kit.