THE SCALEFOUR SOCIETY
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This set of pages is intended for Society 'show-offs', which we all are at heart. The object is to display pictures of modelling in our chosen scale and to our finescale standards.
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John Anderson, 6048	John Darch, 3822	Richard Harper, 5040	Barry Luck 2223	Jeff Smith 3561	Fylde Area Group
David Barrett, 3838	Fraser Donachie, 5724	Dave Holt, 1123	Tony McSean, 5827	Jim Smith-Wright, 4956	South London Area Group
Gareth Bayer, 5030	Richard Dunning, 3772	Mark Humphrys 4896	Paul Moore, 4817	Mark Stapleton, 5613
John Brighton, 5654	Ian Everett, 4976	Steve Johnson	Doug Newton, 5639	Ken Walker, 1465
Ian Carswell, 5164	Stephen Gifford, 5384	David Lane 3057	Andrew Nummelin, 1380	James Wells, 5971
Adrian Colenutt, 2037	Morgan Gilbert, 5832	David Lane 4719	Simon Ramsdale, 5232	Jol Wilkinson, 3263
	Philip Hall 2782	Chris Longley, 1480	David Smith, 3129	John H Wright, 4800
Bramblewick SlideShow with commentary by Tom Harland ( pictures are 1024 pixels wide, best to set your browser to display this size)

John Darch, 3822
Photo of the Month September 2002	Brassmasters kit, modified and detailed to match the prototype that worked Gloucester Docks. Portescap motor and gearbox, Alan Gibson wheels. Six months from first request for information on available kits on E4um!
This kit did need a great deal of work to get it right. Whether the problems were in the etching or the original artwork is difficult to say but I suspect more of the latter than the former as right and left sides were nor always identical when they should have been! Portescap is very noisy despite treatments as prescribed on E4um - this one is a 'screamer' as opposed to a 'grinder'. Wheels are eccentric and wobble on axle.  Anyway, it looks good and runs reasonably smoothly considering the problems with the wheels. All I have to do now is build the layout.
		Clinkerford Wharf showing John's plateway wagon. (Photo of the Month December 2005)

Fraser Donachie, 5724 I'm a regular member of the 'Sarum Finescale' Area Group and my very long term aim is to complete a model of Ventnor West in the post-WWII era. My next challenge will be to tackle something with lining!
1. LBSCR E1 No 3 'Ryde' circa 1956, just prior to withdrawal. This is the excellent Albion Models kit with Sharman wheels and a Portescap motor.
2. LBSCR Terrier No 8 'Freshwater' circa 1949, before her return to the mainland. This is a Branchlines sprung chassis with Paul Berntsen wheels and split axles under a modified Hornby/Dapol body

Richard Dunning,  3772
	Two images of 30921 "Shrewsbury", one of the two Schools class which ran for a while with tenders from scrapped "Lord Nelson"s. It's a bit of a mongrel, consisting of Bachmann tender with Gibson wheels, Dapol loco kit (main mouldings), chassis from the Comet kit with Sharman wheels, Mashima motor in the tender and High Level transmission. Transfers again by Fox. I was inspired to build it by a photo in Brian Haresnape's book "Maunsell locos" and to test the idea of locating the motor in the tender to optimise the weight distribution in the loco. It seems to work well but hasn't yet seen rails beyond my test track.
Photo of the month, July 2003
	BR 4MT Standard tank 80079 which is a DJH kit with Alan Gibson frames, Comet chassis and motion parts, Ultrascale wheels, Mashima motor. Transfers by Fox. It was built with SDJR or SR projects in mind.

Ian Everett, 4976

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It's a London Road Jinty shunting an ex LNER brake van (Parkside kit) across the canal bridge into Clecklewyke goods yard. The mill is based on a prototype in Hebden Bridge and is made from Wills stone sheets, as is most of the other stonework. The chimney, embedded in the stone wall, is a cardboard tube to which I stuck approximately 7857 (I counted the first 20 then estimated the rest...) chads rescued when Edinburgh University's card punch machine was scrapped some 17 years ago. The fire escape is made from two Langley (I think) etchings, fiddly but nice. The canal lock is actually Wolvercote, on the Oxford canal - should normally be broad gauge in West Yorkshire but I reckon it's a branch off the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.

Stephen Gifford, 5384
Croome Court is scratchbuilt, fully sprung and sits on Ultrascale wheels.  Croome Court is powered by a Mashima can motor through Ultrascale gears,
Both of these two Collett 57 foot bow ended coaches are from Comet kits; the gangways are scratchbuilt.  Both coaches have Alan Gibson wheels running in partially sprung bogies.  The colours aren't quite so garish in real life!

Morgan Gilbert,  5832
	Photo of the month, March 2006 (left).
The loco was built from a very old version of the Brassmasters kit that I picked up from a 2nd hand stall.  The loco is fully sprung using BM/Comet coil spring hornblocks.  Motor is a Mashima 1420 mounted vertically in the firebox and driving the rear axle through a Branchlines 38:1 gearbox.		The tender is also fully sprung using continuous springy beams.

Philip Hall, 2782
No 4 is a Riceworks kit for the NBR Class 'R' 4-4-0T.  You may well have seen the one that Editor John's predecessor built and painted correctly, but I always have thought LSWR Goods Green a fine colour for an engine, and after all, Drummond was an LSWR man even if he did work for other railways before he saw the light and moved to Surbiton.  So after mine was finished that's the way I went.  I was going to have find some considerable excuse for running it in the south-west in the early 1950's, and in the end I didn't bother.  It's such a pretty little engine, after all.   The name? Well, that was my mother's (Robin Arkinstall had etched the plates for me many years ago) and the number reflects her birthday.  A little more fiction seemed understandable.  As for mechanicals,  she rides on Sharman wheels and has Ultrascale 50:1 gears and a 1224 motor.		Cover Photo, Dec. 2008
111 is a straightforward conversion of a Hornby M7 to EM, using Alan Gibson wheelsets.  Unfortunately the model was completed with Alan's original wheels for the bogie before the improved LSWR pattern with the different rim and larger boss were produced.  The frames were padded out with Plastikard but not behind the drivers as the steps are in the way and it doesn't show. Widening the frames means that the guard irons and brake gear stay in the right place.  The bogie was simply cut in half and widened with Plastikard, a new pivot pin being added from a 10BA bolt inserted from underneath, with a 2mm sleeve of brass tube above. It runs beautifully, and has pulled five heavy Kirk kit - based Maunsell coaches around a testing EM layout with not a hint of a wobble or slip; just glides around.
Another M7 conversion done to P4 for Peter Swift, using Ultrascale wheels. Peter did a much better job of the bodywork than I could ever do!

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