MRJ Compendiums Content

[Tony Davis]

I bought editions 0 - 138 from ebay for £67.00 inc postage and, having flicked through, am extemely impressed with the content. I see that there are compendiums also available and wondered if the content differed from the periodicals or if they are "best of" articles?

 

Enlightenment welcomed.

 

regards

 

Tony

[Nick Holliday]

The compendia were entirely new material. http://www.modelrailwayjournal.com/compendium.php has listings of the content of each.

[Arun Sharma]

The three compendia were stand alone paperback books each of about 90 pages. Boradly similar articles to those in the early MRJs but more in depth so layout articles were perhaps closer to those in recent MRJs. Each also had at least one long article on modifying/scratchbuilding or kit building a loco. For example Compendium 3 had an article by Martin Blackwell describing how he built a Dean Goods from a Finney kit and had so many optional bits left over that, with a modicum of scratchbuilding, he was able to build another!

The articles tend more to be "how to do" than "this is what I/we did".

 

I think the three books are great - If you can find them, buy them. IMO unlikely that you would be disappointed.

Edited September 16, 2017 by ted675

[Tony Davis]

Thanks Nick & Ted, I'll be getting those.

[Captain Kernow]

You could try asking the exalted new owner of Wild Swan Publications if he knows of any copies. He does do second hand books as well.

[Re6/6]

Tony, keep your eyes open on Ebay. The do come up from time to time.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=model+railway+journal+complete+set&_osacat=11450&_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=model+railway+journal+compendium&_sacat=11450