S4 Portfolio 3

	THE SCALEFOUR SOCIETY
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This page amended on 23 December 2009

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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.
Submission of pictures from Society members is appreciated, either as standard photos which can be scanned and returned, or as digital images.
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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)

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Richard Harper, 5040
The signal box for the planned new extension to the Leamington & Warwick Model Railway Society's layout "Clarendon"		The top section uses a London Road Models brass kit for a LNWR Type 4 box. The lower section is scratchbuilt using plastic sheet. A depiction of the interlocking mechanism can be seen through the windows.
(Photograph of the month, August 2007)	West Country 34104 Bere Alston is constructed from a PDK kit and has a Portescap motor, Gibson wheels, compensation using hornblocks rather than the kit system, plus extra detailing particularly to the tender. The loco is in 1959 condition and will be used on my "Sidmouth" layout for an excursion train.
	Richard's standard 4 at Rose Grove. It uses a Branchlines chassis with Portescap motor and Gibson wheels. The body is from DJH with necessary modifications to tender and cab rear plus detailing by addition of pipes etc. Lots of lovely weathering as per Martyn Welch. Don't blame Richard for the pic. I took it at the 2002 AGM (Webmaster) (Photograph of the month, August 2002)
	2 x M7, 30044 AND 30676-built from Finney kits, beautifully painted and weathered by Ian Rathbone. These two locos plus 82010 and 41306 are built in readiness for my layout, now under construction, based on Sidmouth circa 1959. 41306 has a Bachmann body, somewhat modified and detailed, mounted on a Comet chassis not so beautifully painted and weathered by me!. 82010 is a modified and detailed DJH body on a Branchlines chassis. Each has a Portescap motor and is compensated.	Photo of the month, May 2006

Photo of the month, April 2006	My "Gladstone", built for Leamington and Warwick MRS layout "Clarendon" set in circa 1908. It is an Albion kit. Portescap shoe horned in- just. Compensated chassis. Lined and lettered by Ian Rathbone - just look at the LBSCR monograms, repeated on each splasher - superb!

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Dave Holt, 1123

This 9F started life as a DJH kit, but uses many Alan Gibson parts. The model is now fully weathered and looks even better than it does here. Pictures courtesy of Russ Elliott.

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Mark Humphrys, 4896
Photo of the month, August 2006.	This is 4979, Wooton Hall that I scratchbuilt a couple of years ago. It won the Irwell Novice Shield at Scaleforum 2002.

Steve Johnson.
	A model of a Coras Iompair Eireann 'A' Class locomotive to 21mm gauge P4 standards
Steve tells us that it is a runner and has spent an afternoon running around Adavoyle Junction at an exhibition in Kidderminster once, much to the consternation and disgust (apparently) of the punters. It is a model of the doyen of the 60 'A' Class locomotives built by Metropolitan Vickers in 1955. It is in the 1974 CIE livery, a modified (much!) kit running on a modified (muchly!) Airfix Class 31 chassis.

David Lane of Aylesbury, 3057
Photo of the Month July 2004
	33006 is based on the new PDK kit but is fully sprung loco and tender and has the motor and two flywheels in the tender driving a cardan shaft to the loco, much has been done to make the loco as acurate as possible of 33006 in 1964, note patches and gouges on the tender. an article should appear in MRJ soon.Photos taken by Anthony Mead and David Lane Photo of the Month October 2002
			The Q1 runs on Saffron Street
	The 97XX pannier is a RTR brass with extra detail and a new chassis and is seen on Saffron Street warehouse sidings, Ex Private Owner wagons from Parkside Dundas kits in unpainted wooden finish. Below are three views of the street.

David Lane of Salisbury, 4719
	To prove that it wasn't just a pipe-dream here's a photo of my under-construction LNER Garratt in the foreground with a recently built, and as yet unpainted, GW 26xx Aberdare. Both are scratchbuilt (bar motors, wheels, etc., and the Aberdares boiler fittings and buffers. And here's 2395 pretty well completed.
	And another loco takes shape, this will be 46207 "Princess Arthur of Connaught" and has scratchbuilt body and tender with adapted Comet frames and motion.
	The Princess (46207) is scratchbuilt - in fact it started life very many years ago as a brass loco body and tender made by other hands and came to me about 40 years ago when a widow was disposing of her late husbands modelling items to what was then my local Club. It then sat ignored in various drawers in three different houses for some 39 years. It came with a set of plates for 'Princess Arthur of Connaught', but was in fact modelled on the original two Princesses - so needed a complete re-work to suit the name, and all that remains of the original now is the footplate, adapted to P4 gauge! The rest is nickel-silver. Power is a large Portescap.
	Here's an essay in silver and greys. The basis is a Pro-Scale A4 which when completely finished will find a home on the Dukeries Group's layout Grescaster Yard. At the moment it lacks couplings and the panel handles on the body. To facilitate coping with 42 inch radius curves on the layout the 8 wheel tender chassis is built as two linked bogies. While the only parts of the kit chassis that were usable for 18.83mm gauge were the two frames, I found the body and tender elements of the kit little problem - although not Finney/Mitchell standard they were far better quality than some and used a sensible thickness of brass. Perhaps the most nerve-racking job was fretting out the two 'foxes from an old 'Kings Cross' nameplate etch. The transfers are by Fox Transfers and are really first class. As the prototype was of a purpose and period when it would have been kept immaculate no attempt at weathering has been contemplated.
	To replace David Lane (the elder's) as yet progressing but unfinished T9 - which has reverted to a more orthodox drive than that originally and optimistically intended - an image of his Alan Gibson 2P is provided - and, yes, 545 was one of the few to wear LMS crimson lake! Even that's been on the build for some 5 years.
The O2 is an Alan Gibson kit with a Mashima 12x20 motor.
The ER K1 is a DMR kit with a Mashima 14x24 motor.

Chris Longley, 1480
	"Mere" Goods Yard taken at the Greenford show in March 2000.
	Running on "Mere", J27 by Paul Moore from the Dave Bradwell kit.
All photos taken by Paul Moore on a Nikon F100, with 60mm and 28-70mm lenses and SB-28 speedlight, Film: Kodak Tri-X 400.

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