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THE SCALEFOUR SOCIETY |
| Member's Portfolio - Page 3 |
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THE SCALEFOUR SOCIETY |
| Member's Portfolio - Page 3 |
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.
Note:
copyright
in these pictures remains with the owning member who can be contacted
through
the webmaster
if anyone
wants
to copy or make further use of them.
Just click on the pictures to move to the full size version.
| 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. |
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| Tony McSean, 5827 | ||
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| The standard
Airfix Esso tanks,
originally built to OO standards over 30 years ago, and now retrieved
from their box and given the full Geoff Kent treatment.
Disconcertingly, they had become self-dismantling with the passage of
time and the full train of 14 tanks survived the reconstruction (apart
from one that was in the paint stripper when unexpected guests arrived
and deconstructed itself into paste, and one I cannibalised).
The details of what I did to them are all in Geoff's book. The etched ladders were a devil to get right and soldering up the drain cocks was a finger-scarring aexperience but otherwise the upgrading was an enjoyable and satisfying job. The painting and weathering is my first serious venture into airbrushing. The transfers for the lettering and branding are home made (although the CCT products are better and very good value) and the pictures were taken before Bill Bedford produced his etches for the Esso logo - I immediately replaced my styrene versions and the improvement is marked |
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These Bradwell kits were constructed more or less as per the instructions. Building them took a long time but the quality of the design, production and instructions made the job a pleasure from beginning to end. The only slightly tricky bits were (a) getting the apex of the lateral centre divider to sit below the level of the sides (this was just a fiddle ), and soldering on the ribs at the top of each end which even using an RSU I found had me reaching for the colourful language and some replacement brass strip. Otherwise they were great. The lettering is home-made and the inside is brush painted with metalcote gunmental and buffed up with a cotton bud. | |
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| The Hurst snowploughs are also in
as-new
condition. The kits aren't too bad and sit on Gibson wheels
of
prototypically differing diameter. The sharp end of the
blade
looked like it would be difficult to get right but wasn't - and both
these units have tidier blades than the in-service pictures I've seen
of the prototypes so probably should be half unsoldered. The
real
catch is where the blade section meets the cab, which has to be smooth
and was a devil to get right. It's still not perfect but the
chevrons distract the eye (I tell myself). Chevrons and
lettering are home-made decals. The paint job was the other real catch. The two ploughs have had 5 paint jobs between them - partly incompetence but mostly because it's not easy. Look closely and you'll see imperfections and retouching, but it was that or alcoholism, blindess, insanity and death Every one of these units seems to have its own variation of livery, so I kept these plain and as retro as feasible for something not introduced until 1965. PS The handrails are now straight. |
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With the news I'm finding it hard to
settle to
work, so I've sorted out some pics of mineral wagons.
(13/9/01)
They include kits from Parkside and Slaters and |
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