Scalefour Forum

Newport MRS in association with NAGNAG (the Newport and Gwent Neighbourhood Area Group of the Scalefour Society) are holding our second* biennial open day on Saturday 7th March 2015 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Shaftesbury Community Centre in Evans Street, Newport, NP20 5LD The open day isn’t meant to be an...

Yes he's still about. Just pop an order in the post with your cheque.

J A Milton http://www.jamiltonupholstery.co.uk/products/cushions-and-fillings/hair-and-fibre-fillings, who supply furniture restorers and whom I have used in the past for that purpose do a range of Hair and Fibre Fillings, which might offer the texture you're after.

As an exhibitor I want to say that I thoroughly enjoyed the weekend. A superb show and many thanks to Terry and all the organising team.

Fantastic show, well done Dave!

If anyone's wavering about going tomorrow, go.

In the current News there is info on the Prickly Pear wagon semi-sprung suspension systems. Has anybody tried them and with what results?

I'll PM beachboy myself. That should work.
Rod

Robin and Morgan

With two years' more experience are you still as happy with the Brian Morgan TOUs? Anything you'd do differently now? We're about to start track laying on Little Mill Junction and are seriously considering these units.

Rod

The Brassmasters development looks very interesting but I must admit I'm very pleased with Bernie Baker's conversion of my 42xx that can be seen two thirds of of the way through this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcAzdW5_DJk running on Bernie’s Allt y Graban Road at Scaleforum last year. Very smoot...

Yes, Martin. It's an abridgred version of the 2009 English Heritage book.

I just came across this book in Smith's. It's full a myriad of period photographs of street scenes and good value at a penny less than £6.

Will L wrote:... practical experience suggests that nickel silver gets dirtier quicker than steel

Thanks for your comment Will, you may well be right but I don't want to get embroiled in a Steel vs NS debate. It's just the different grades of NS that I'm intersted in.
Rod

Thanks for your comments Jim and Martin. Following up on Martin’s comments on thermal expansion and browsing the net I came across this statement on Wikipedia “Nickel silver … is preferred for the track in electrically powered model railway layouts, as its oxide is conductive” http://en.wikipedia.or...

On C&L website ( http://www.finescale.org.uk/index.php?route=product/category&path=346_347_350_351 ) they say the following "The Nickel Silver rail is our 'HiNi' brand. Unique to C&L, it has a nickel silver content of around 18% rather than the general 12% from other manufacturers. ...

Justin
The wagon chassis look superb (as expected ) - are they designed to match any particular RtR bodies or (laudably) models of their prototypes? I suppose I'm thinking particularly of the Iron Ore wagon but the others would be of interest too.
Rod

Thanks everybody. I think I'll try tracing first but the vectorising software does sound useful.
Rod

I have some good old-fashioned manual artwork, drawn at 16mm/ft and measuring about 800mm x 400mm that I'd like to convert to a .dwg file so that I can modify it in AutoCAD. Any suggestions how I might approach it? I can scan up to A3 size if that forms any part of a solution.
Rod

Seven so for for the 42xx and two for the 72xx. Closing date is next Friday so it looks as if there may be too few to warrant a conversion kit unless there are some last minute takers.

Yes, and I don't thing that Ferring let the side down either. Altogether a very good show.
Rod

Ben You may like to consider laminating your paper backscene in matt plastic, as Bernie Baker did on Allt-y-Graban Road and our club has on our 7mm layout Frecclesham (no doubt googling either will bring up images). Commercial laminators can laminate substantial lengths and the result should be stro...

Looking forward to this, never gone on previous years, but there are some good layouts there.
Rod

Don't leave it too late (from the site https://www.ultrascale.com/eshop/products/CAT033)

Closing date for orders: 30/04/13 - 15:00 BST.

Rod

Apparently when I enquired yesterday I was the first to ask whether Ultrascale had any intentions of producing a conversion kit for Hornby 42xx/72xx. But nevertheless they have invited expressions of interest. I'm sure we can muster 14 more people to get to the threshold, see here: http://www.ultras...

Ah, so it is an ex-Mersey Rly 0-6-4T! That'll be something worth seeing. Maybe I ought to revive my plans to model Machen to give it somewhere else to run!
Keep us posted.
Rod

'Fess up Andrew is it an ex-Mersey Rly 0-6-4T?