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The layout was featured in the October 2022 Continental Modeller, my thanks to Andrew Burnham (CM editor) for the excellent photos he took at Globalrail back in the summer of 2022. Nové Město has a few exhibition invites confirmed for 2023: Wealden Railway Group at Steyning, Sunday 12 March Bentley Model Railway Group at Calne, Sat 15 & Sun 16 April TT Modellers Day in Cheltenham on Sun 2nd July Mid-Essex MRC at Shenfield Saturday 16 September Newbury MRC at Newbury, Saturday 28 October And I have a few days over in Prague in late March, there'll no doubt be a few trips out to model shops 😉

The scratchbuilt Salmon and the 2 Grampuses that accompany it are decalled up and just need some grot, while a bunch of 16t mins, assorted VB revenue vans, highs, lows, Plate and Tube are getting their numbers and letters. The VB stock is also having the Lima brake gear reworked to bring the shoes in line with the wheels and tiebars fitted. I did find my spare Toad chassis, so am pondering making a Stanier 20t brake van body for it out of Evergreen car siding... watch this space, as they say...

Much progress with stock, ahead of Dounreay's debut at the Kenavon exhibition in east Reading on Saturday 18 February. Reworked my bogie inners to correct the wheelbase and finished 6 pairs, so the Mk1s are pretty much done, the pair of PMVs have wheels, paint and glazing, the 24/1 is decalled, glazed and fitted with Kadees and I'm working my way through the freight stock. The Bulleid Third Open is finished as Sc1466S, one of the dozen or so sent north of the border in the mid-1960s to replace Mk1s converted to REPs and TCs. The layout also now has it's own section on Maidenhead club's website: http://www.mmdmrc.org.uk/dounreay.html

Rainy Night 65 - New Model Army

Early/mid-90s for me. The interesting traction (20/25/40/45) had mostly been withdrawn, older units and rolling stock likewise and the simplification of the railway just didn't grab me the way it had when I started taking a proper interest in the mid-70s. Same as the airshow scene, once the Lightnings, Bricks, Shacks, Phantoms, Vulcans and Victors had gone, my interest in attending airshows died.

Smalltown England - New Model Army

Definitely looks like a Mk1 Portrait. Blades - I buy proper Silhouette blades via Amazon, you'll need the basic manual blade. Non-branded blades just don't last or stay sharp as long. Mats - 'low-tack' non-branded mats via ebay - I got 3 for about the price of 1 Silhouette-branded one and they work fine, just make sure 'Portrait' is in the search/item name.

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A late change, Glacier has unfortunately had to withdraw due to a bout of covid. To fill the hole, we have Five Elms, a OO BR (SR) loco shed layout.

Forgotten Sons - Marillion

And here's the showguide mmdmrc 2023 showguide.pdf

Changing of the Light - New Model Army

Just realised I forgot to account for the axle diameter when making the bogie inners 😣 I can hopefully salvage what I've done so far, if not it's only plasticard and time wasted.

With a show outing approaching (the Kenavon show in east Reading, mid-Feb) I thought I'd best crack on with enough stock to run a service. So a selection of my reworked Lima Mk1s have been painted, glazed, decalled (thank you RailTec!) and I've worked out a way of making scale-length BR1 bogies to go under them. I'd already made a set of master sideframes from cutting & shutting the Playcraft shorty BR1, but wasn't happy with the Worsley etched inners (rescaled from their TT3, I think, which means an odd/non-standard axle length) I'd already decided on using 12mm OO disc wheelsets as being close enough for 3'6" coach discs in H0. Having proved the concept with the trailing bogie on my Lincoln Locos 24/1, I've gone with a layered 80 thou plasticard inside-bearing core to which my cast resin sideframes can be attached. As Dounreay's passenger rakes are at most load 3, the friction inherent in the design shouldn't be an issue.

Many of the British H0 modellers (myself included) use Peco's Code 75 track. And some of those old rtr models can be hugely improved from the crude base with a bit of modelling - I'm reworking some Lima Mk1s (new DIY sides and bogies) and they come up a treat and don't break the bank. In the TT 1:120 world, there is a similar choice of track - Tillig and Hornby have opted for Code 80 rail which does look quite crude and chunky. Peco and Kühn's Code 55 track is much finer in appearance. I went for Kühn for my České Dráhy TT micro but if starting afresh would opt for Peco's 12mm track.

You Weren't There - New Model Army

Chelsea Monday - Marillion

Marlow, Maidenhead & District MRC's main* annual show returns after a pandemic-related 2 year gap. Saturday 7th January 2023, 09:30 - 16:00 Cox Green Community Centre, Highfield Lane, Maidenhead, SL6 3AX Adults £5, Children £3, Family £13 *our smaller summer show at Knowl Hill Village Hall will return in June 2023. Layouts. Rossiter Rise - West London 00 gauge Glacier American N gauge Westhampton Club N gauge Club Children's Layout 00 gauge Oldshaw - BR 1980s/90s EM gauge Where Seagulls Dare - 009 gauge Slough Estates 0 gauge Meldon West N gauge Lock Down Halt N gauge Melin Dolrhyd 009 gauge St Mary's Cove N gauge Hartley Wintney 00 gauge Five Elms OO gauge Slough & Windsor Railway Society 00 static Traders. Amberely Components Berkshire Dolls House & Model Co., Buzz Models JB Model World PG Model Supplies RCTS Club second-hand Drinks and light refreshments. Keep an eye on the club website for any updates http://www.mmdmrc.org.uk/exhibition-news-2223.html MMDMRCMaidenheadFlyers Flyers A4 2023.pdf

Nothing Touches - New Model Army

No Man's Land - New Model Army

In my dim and distant yoof, I planned to make a OO model of my then home station Brentwood, set circa 1955 with the full goods yard, 1.5Kv DC ohle, Simplex petrol shunter, etc. Did a whole bunch of research,which I still have filled away, but aside from buying a few items of suitable stock, it never progressed beyond a detailed plan and a long, long shopping list. I'd have needed about 70ft to do it properly. One I will build (one day) is a larger US H0 switching layout, either the Harlem Transfer Terminal or the B&O's 26th St Terminal, both in NYC and set mid-50s.

My preference is for Smiths links* and Ambis hooks, also Ambis instanter links where required. The Ambis hooks have a finer appearance over Smiths hooks. *Ambis also sell packs of the Smiths links. The combo works fine for me under exhibition conditions (Shirebeck, EM gauge) on a wide range of kit and rtr stock. I use the standard links and wield a simple hooked shunting pole, having never got on with magnetic links.

Get Me Out - New Model Army

Poison Street - New Model Army

Far Better Thing - New Model Army