Scalefour Forum

Happy New Year to everyone as well. Hopefully 2021 will prove a better year than 2020 was (I'd describe it being polite as Annus Horibilis Maximus!). Hoping I can get some modelling done in the coming months, and going to dig out my tools and track building stuff seeing as I've had to make an unexpe...

Building the wagons that formed my contribution to the publication kept me gainfully employed during the first lockdown and there are more on the go. Currently eight Lima "Seacow" ballast hoppers are on their way through the paint shop most of which will need scratch built mesh roofs over...

It is as expected really. Excellent photos and content.

It should be remembered that they're primarily aimed at wargamers, it is just fortunate that they off stuff in a railway friendly scale.

Excellent find. Thanks for sharing. I'll have to bookmark that page, as some of those items might well prove useful for when I manage to find some time to work on the layout, which like a lot of things got put on the back burner for most of this year due to lack of time.

What is the disabled access of the venue like? Hi Kelly This is a very modern school, built in 2010, so (we are assured by the school, and Andrew will bear this out) fully compliant with modern needs and requirements. You should be fine. Regards TreasurerChris Thanks for that. It was something that...

What is the disabled access of the venue like?

ChromeOS is just a very minimul Linux with Chrome browser as the only interface. Very locked down however, everything has to be in the browser and 'install' from the ChromeOS store. There isn't often any or much local storage and everything is in the cloud generally. With the above in mind, Chromebo...

Unfortunately I wasn't able to catch the virtual scaleforum yesterday. Will the videos remain on YouTube for a while to catch up on what I missed? They will be permanently hosted by our YouTube channel, and linked from the show website. Thanks for that clarification John. Will look forward to catch...

Unfortunately I wasn't able to catch the virtual scaleforum yesterday. Will the videos remain on YouTube for a while to catch up on what I missed?

Sad news. Condolences to his family

The CMRA Stevenage i believe has also been cancelled for next year.

I thought they were designed to be cosmetic or am I mistaken in that?

Not unexpected news really, and probably the correct option given all the available options.

Finances would have meant I wouldn't have been able to make it either way. But still a shame to miss such an excellent show.

I'll look forward hopefully to next years show.

A very nice day and a great chance to learn a few things and so on.

I can't always get to the skills days as some are too far away, but this is the best I have attended yet.

Thanks to everyone involved.

Simon, But I wanted to say a really big thank you for the clear and comprehensive way that you showed that process. It won't help me, but I'm sure it will be an enormous help to many other members of the Society. Thank you. Flymo Certainly of interest to me. I have some of the spacers that were pro...

I will be there on the DEMU stand once again all things going to plan.

It's my wife's birthday on the 28th and when I 'booked' my layout for this year I was anticipating the date to be a week later. I think I've got away with it - but it's costing a spa day for her and our daughters! You will come back to happier wife and daughters at least though as they'll enjoy you...

It's my wife's birthday on the 28th and when I 'booked' my layout for this year I was anticipating the date to be a week later. I think I've got away with it - but it's costing a spa day for her and our daughters! You will come back to happier wife and daughters at least though as they'll enjoy you...

The one from Hannants looks rather useful. They tend to have a wide range of items that might be of interest beyond aviation modelling, so the site is worth a browse.

Pencilled in the diary. The last skills day I made it along to (Kiddeminster) was excellent.

The newest releases (97201) have better windows and new grilles. The windows are to be made available to owners of older models for upgrading if they wish iirc.

Certainly looks to be a number of interesting videos across a number of catagories.

Have had a slight redesign (nothing drastic) and changed A5 turnouts for A6.5 turnouts to ease things a bit. harton_v29-sketch.png harton_v29.png It looks a bit odd at the top right where the cassettes are, but in reality only one would be in place at one time, and 2 are higher than the other one. T...

BR 1/146 welded 21T hoppers were introduced in 1952, and the 1/142 welded 13T hopper in 1949. The 1974 date relates to those hoppers rebuilt by Shildon with welded bodies to a new design https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brhuckbolt21t . Thanks for that. I think Hatcher refers to the ncb welded as b...