RMweb Premium 45156 Posted September 10, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 10, 2010 Am I the first - well here goes In a plastic bag this month, and has a track plans supplement. Contents are Layouts Bawdsey - ER transition Cripps Bottom Yard - 1950s East Midlands Steam Wingfield Junction - Freelance area/era Reviews - inc Hornby 28xx and Dapol Brit Ian M's Hatton Parkway pt4 Privatisation liveries Killin Pug pt 2 chassis Reality Check 28xx Railway Realism - Bl** P***man Scenes From Life - adding a pub Paul Chetter's DCC piece re sound chip - pt2 GWR V5 waggons Plus the usual news and letters Happy reading Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted September 10, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 10, 2010 my subscriber copy arrived yesterday. A good general read again. I was suprised though, that given the comments made about not to scale track plans in the past on various forums, that the supplement persists with the same style. I can't see how many of the plans could possibly fit in the spaces quoted. In one example 6 turnouts are shown fitted into a 2' length?! Considering the market the mag and supplement is aimed at i really don't think this approach helps beginners. graphically the rest of the mag is great, why spoil it with questionable track plans? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ian Posted September 10, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 10, 2010 I wish Mike Wild had asked me to clean that canal before he took that photo The suppliers listing has gone walkabout, so for anyone who is still awake and following, listen very carefully, I will say this only once! Sculptamold Available from Art & Craft stores or by mail order from Squires, 100 London Road, Bognor Regis, PO21 1DD. Tel. 01243 842424 www.squirestools.com Extruded polystyrene sheet Available from DIY stores. Backscene iD backscenes, available from International Models, Plas Cadfor, Llwyngwril, LL37 2LA. Tel.01341 250407 www.internationalmodels.net Knightwing kits, available from model shops or direct from Knightwing International, Malham Works, 33 Almondbury Bank, Huddersfield, HD5 8HE. Tel. 01484 537191 www.knightwing.co.uk A003 Large Street Lamps PN012 Plate Overbridge 13'' (one kit used) Kestrel kits, available from model shops. KD30 Modern Waiting Room KD38 Steel Footbridge KD39 Industrial Unit (3 kits used) Scalescenes kits from www.scalescenes.com R004 Medium Station Building R008 Station Platform R012 Concrete Bridge R013 Retaining Wall R014 Tunnel Portal R015 Bridge Abutments T034 Roads and Pavements TX22 Car Park Peco. available from model shops NB-26 Platform Edging - Brick NB-45 Peco Flexible Field Fencing NB-66 Platform Ramp Edge - Brick SL-340 Rail Built Buffer Stop SL-347 Dummy Point Motors Hornby Lyddle End, available from model shops N8030 Wooden Garage N8033 Radcliffe's Newsagent N8062 AWS Boxes N8066 Garden Shed N8074 Corner Terrace Off Licence N8572 Canal Bridge N8654 Lock Keeper's Cottage N8687 Bay Terraced House Left Hand (2 models used) N8688 Bay Terraced House Right Hand (2 models used) N8689 Bay Terraced Garden Walls- End N8690 Bay Terraced Garden Walls - Mid (2 packs used) N8704 Wilkinson's Florist N8727 Skale Oil Petrol Station N8748 Mason's Arms Pub N8749 Faulkners Electrical Store N8752 Bungalow N9750 Fine Foods Supermarket N8751 Hislops Barbers Shop N8755 Big Bins (2 packs used) N8760 Modern Phone Box N8770 Modern Industrial Building Sea Foam Moss available from International Models, Plas Cadfor, Llwyngwril, LL37 2LA. Tel.01341 250407 www.internationalmodels.net Green Scene, 60 Holly Mount, Worcester, WR4 9S. Tel. 01905 24298 www.green-scene.co.uk Pallisade Fencing from PH Designs, www.phd-design.co.uk Piano Wire (.018" Size 7) from eBay seller wellington101-0001 Generic model cats from eBay seller wehonest_cn Mounting board from art & craft shops. Florists wire (20 gauge black) from art & craft shops. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinWalsh Posted September 10, 2010 Share Posted September 10, 2010 Railway Realism - Bl** P***man OOOOOOOOOOOOO, froth meter on high alert and standby . I'll have to wait until next week for a copy to appear in the shops, must get round to doing a subscription. Kev Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted September 10, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 10, 2010 A good issue but it must qualify for the 'gaff of the year' award with the caption to the pic of 2875 on page 73. They should have entered a 'where are we now?' competition before printing in that one I think I'd better email them a correction. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted September 10, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 10, 2010 Is that the Radlett pic? No, that's on page 101 - certainly something (alright, several things) rather tangled in that caption as well but at least I think the location might be correctly named Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 45156 Posted September 11, 2010 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 11, 2010 OOOOOOOOOOOOO, froth meter on high alert and standby . I'll have to wait until next week for a copy to appear in the shops, must get round to doing a subscription. Kev Kev - don't get too worked up, it's a pretty basic article that we're talking about here. I got my copy from a village newsagent/convenience store on Friday morning. As I am currently housebound, I can't get to Smiffs, so I just phoned them and asked them to order me a copy, they did, and said it would be in Friday and it was - Mrs 45156 called round for it first thing. Do your shops have a distribution problem, I wonder? I was hoping for a bit more from the track plans, and I agree that as they are "not to scale" they seem to be stretching things a bit! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Western Scottish Posted September 11, 2010 Share Posted September 11, 2010 Surprised no one mentioned its stolen a March on the other mags which are all available around same time by having the first review of Hornby 28XX 2-8-0. They had the review of Cravens 105 I month ahead of the rest as well! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adams442T Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 Don't know if it's the loss of Chris Nevard's photos but seemed a poorer mag than of late. That and the ridiculous track plans! No radius greater than 20", and I would love to see anyone build any of the proposed pointwork in the spaces allowed. Come back Triang Super4 all is forgiven!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 I was hoping for a bit more from the track plans, and I agree that as they are "not to scale" they seem to be stretching things a bit! Yep, and including the price. At £4.95 for a little 48 page pamphlet is stretching things a bit far when the mag is less than £4. I haven't looked through all the plans in detail but the one on page 28 & 29 has no crossover/connection between the inner and outer circuit/circle. And the one on pages 20 and 21 has no connection between the bottom half (with the run round loop and shed) and the top half (with platform). G. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 ............ and the goods yard on page 27 is not rail connected. I'm almost scared to look at any of the other plans. G. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisf Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 No, that's on page 101 - certainly something (alright, several things) rather tangled in that caption as well but at least I think the location might be correctly named There do seem to be more wrong captions in Hornby Mag than there used to be. It's a shame because in many respects it is a good magazine. Errors like this and the crop of them in last month's feature on the Underground detract from the value of the title to new entrants who might just believe what they read! To unscramble this one: the location is Radlett and the BP probably is thundering through the station. It is not a Western 8-car BP led by M60093 but, as it says on the leading vehicle, a Midland Pullman set. The dmu is not by Pressed Steel but a Derby built 4 car set, later class 127. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coppercap Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 There do seem to be more wrong captions in Hornby Mag than there used to be. It's a shame because in many respects it is a good magazine. Errors like this and the crop of them in last month's feature on the Underground detract from the value of the title to new entrants who might just believe what they read! On the subject of correct information, I noticed that the writer who corrected the Underground article missed that the tube train in Epping was actually the Ongar 4-car shuttle, not a 'main line' train from Ealing Broadway, which would have usually used the other platform. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinWalsh Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 Finally got round to getting this month's issue. After a quick skim through (more detailed read to take place when soaking in bath later) I'm mightily impressed with Wingfield Junction, but 6 ( ) control panels must make it a lively bu$$er to operate at exhibitions . Kev Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Bedding Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 "Cheer up," they said, "Things could get worse." So we cheered up and they did. Sorry, chaps, I am being churlish, and ungrateful. In all of the recent major wishlists, I have voted consistently for r-t-p buildings of LSWR pedigree. There were, and are still many on the Western Division, of quintessential LSWR style, and most from the office of Sir William Tite. Plenty of prototypes to choose from, with impeccable sources of drawings and photographs. So now I have my wish. There is a new Skaledale product advertised (I believe for the first time) in HM40, for an ex-LSWR station building at £17.99 post free. Is it one of the above architectural gems? No. It's a model of the brick shack at Medstead & Four Marks. In style, it could just as easily have been the platelayers' hut by Wigan Pier. I shall have to have it, though, for future use in a location not yet planned. So many thanks, HM and Skaledale for listening and trying. Just keep trying. In good cheer, PB PS. I shall add it to the future layout, with the O2s in BR livery. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shedman Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 Has anyone managed to find the sound files on the Hornby mag site for the Class 4 sound article? I keep looking, but nothing to be found. Wonder if I'm in the wrong place? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ian Posted October 1, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 1, 2010 That's because the site hasn't been updated for Issue 40 yet, it still shows 39 as the current issue Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathan452 Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 There do seem to be more wrong captions in Hornby Mag than there used to be. It's a shame because in many respects it is a good magazine. Errors like this and the crop of them in last month's feature on the Underground detract from the value of the title to new entrants who might just believe what they read! To unscramble this one: the location is Radlett and the BP probably is thundering through the station. It is not a Western 8-car BP led by M60093 but, as it says on the leading vehicle, a Midland Pullman set. The dmu is not by Pressed Steel but a Derby built 4 car set, later class 127. On a similar note I noticed some incorrect captions in the November 2010 Railways Illustrated (from the same publishing stable). The article on the Midland Main Line in the early to mid 1970´s credits several of the photographs as being near Elstree. Two certainly are not. One with class 45 45004 on a southbound Mk1 set is just noth of St.Albans station (the two herberts are hanging off the York Road footbridge). The other depicting the Western on a empty southbound return stone train is either on the curve south of St.Albans (towards Napsbury) or on the curves between Harpenden and Chiltern Green (but definitely not Elstree). Can anybody else comment please. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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