SCALEFORUM 1996

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dcockling
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SCALEFORUM 1996

Postby dcockling » Sat Apr 25, 2020 4:30 pm

Back in the 90s a number of videos were made of successive Scaleforums. The filming was arranged by the then organising team, led in those days by Mike Peascod and Eddie Bourne. The films, then in VHS format, were made by Tom Loftus of Magic Box Productions and the videos were made available for sale to Society members. Copyright remained with Tom Loftus.

The Society has copies of all of these videos in it's archive, in the care of our Archivist, Rod Cameron and some time ago our copies were converted to DVD format.

Last year I tried to make contact with Tom Loftus to see if he would be willing for the Society to make these films available on YouTube. After a bit of detective work I managed to track Tom down and was happy to give his permission for the films to be made available on-line.

So here is the first: Scaleforum 1996. Enjoy!

The show guide is in Scalefour News 99



All the Best
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Reason: Change of link as this video is now hosted on the Society's own YouTube Channel

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Re: SCALEFORUM 1996

Postby Le Corbusier » Sat Apr 25, 2020 6:12 pm

Well that was an absolute treat .... thankyou for that. :thumb
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Re: SCALEFORUM 1996

Postby Winander » Sat Apr 25, 2020 7:49 pm

Le Corbusier wrote:Well that was an absolute treat .... thankyou for that. :thumb


I'll second that. The commentary was also interesting and informative.

There's a useful tip when viewing the trackmaking demo. The demonstrator was using a jig for plain track and had soldered a rail onto the jig so that the first rail could accurately be positioned on the sleepers using track gauges.
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Rod Cameron
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Re: SCALEFORUM 1996

Postby Rod Cameron » Sat Apr 25, 2020 10:26 pm

Well done for doing all that Danny :D
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Re: SCALEFORUM 1996

Postby DougN » Sat Apr 25, 2020 11:41 pm

That looks interesting I watched 5 minutes but I will definitely be back to it. :thumb
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Ian White
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Re: SCALEFORUM 1996

Postby Ian White » Sun Apr 26, 2020 7:21 am

Terrific viewing - many thanks for sorting the upload.

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Re: SCALEFORUM 1996

Postby DougN » Sun Apr 26, 2020 7:49 am

I sat down later in the day and watched it. A fantastic production it showed what was there in a very positive light.
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Re: SCALEFORUM 1996

Postby Enigma » Tue May 05, 2020 11:33 am

Again thanks for this. I remember it well! Old friends featured and I've also found me! In a background shot complete with an abundance of ginger hair, large lensed gold rimmed glasses, ginger moustache - and a shirt that I'm sure may well still be in a drawer somewhere................. :)


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