View all: Authors | Issues | Compendiums | Tags
Search Results Results 1 - 10 of 46 for RTR / ready-to-run (0.15 seconds)
-
08 Update
Issue 124 (2001)
p.3
4mm
Tim Shackleton improves the new Bachmann 08.
-
57 Varieties
Issue 141 (2003)
p.73
4mm
Modern diesels are all the same? Not so, says Tim Shackleton. A seemingly simple conversion of a Heljan class 47 into a Freightliner 57 revealed all manner of intriguing prototype variations.
-
7mm RTR - is this the big breakthrough?
Issue 162 (2005)
p.279
7mm
Tim Shackleton looks at the new class 03 shunter from DJH
-
A Cuckoo Among The Ravens
Issue 175 (2007)
p.122
4mm/P4
Chrs Pendlenton models an Ivatt 4MT mogul in P4, using a Bachmann RTR body, a Brassmasters 'club sandwich' chassis and a lot of mechanical ingenuity.
-
Alternative Trailers
Issue 9 (1986)
p.184
4mm/P4
There have ben many conversions of the popular and dimensionally accurate Airfix auto-coach since its first appearance.However, despite previous accounts and even a specialist conversion kit, things are not always as simple as they seem. The R-T-R model falls between two stools so Scalefour Society members Mike Jolly and Mike Clarkehave each taken different diagrams and produced some really worthwhile results. Mike Jolly tackled the A30 using the hitherto scant published information, whilst out of their frustration and after some heavy coaxing (and heavy hints!), Mike Clarke subsequently sought out the prototypes and carried out a thorough investigation and built the A28. Thus the myth that the GWR has been exhaustively catered for in existing publications is exploded again.
Comprehensive, step-by-step conversion details including drawings and prototype photos.
-
An Express Train for the Main Line (and less savoury places)
Issue 200 (2010)
p.179
4mm
Chris Pendlenton provides an account of how to make a long train of Bachmann Mk 1s safe to travel in and walk through on the finescale railway (especially when being propelled).
Including details of the 'Wakefield' and 'wiry' sprung gangways.
-
Banana Split - Part 1
Issue 5 (1986)
p.19
4mm
Chopping up 'flying bananas' (or, to be absolutely correct, their angular sisters from Swindon) is a perfectly acceptable pastime for any self-repsecting modeller, insists Monty Wells. Armed with the definitive book on the GWR AEC railcars, he has at last emerged from another marathon at the drawing board and workbench to discourse on the joys of bashing three Lima singles into an impressive 4mm finescale twin-set - another chapter in the story he calls 'The Romance of Blue Smoke and Black Oil'. In this, the first of two parts, he unveils a superb set of drawings, reviews the book and prepares the slab for the butchery to come.
-
Banana Split - Part 2
Issue 6 (1986)
p.42
4mm
GWR jigsaw puzzles are collectors' pieces these days, but they were never quite like this. Monty Wells, having examined the prototype in the last MRJ, invites you to take three 4mm models of the AEC Railcar, chop them up and re-assemble them into a two-car DMU. Take as long as you like, starting... now.
-
Black Five on a Budget
Issue 138 (2002)
p.243
4mm/00
Tim Shackleton finds Hornby's new RTR model offers an easy and affordable finescale alternative.
-
BRUSH Type 2
Issue 14 (1987)
p.107
4mm
'Health words' from Monty Wells on the modest attractions of the Class 31 and the simple works required to model a whole range of variants.
Detailed prototype notes, drawings, photographs, and livery notes, and simple guidelines for conversion of the Airfix RTR model.