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  • 4mm Scale Buffer Improvement Feedback

    Michael Larcombe

    Issue 77 (1995)

    p.77

    4mm

    Lathe work to improve buffers.

    Tags: lathes, techniques

  • A Slice of Wensleydale Feedback

    Barry Norman

    Issue 88 (1996)

    p.183

    7mm

    Barry tackles the distinctive stonework of the Yorkshire Dales, all in 7mm scale.

    Tags: buildings, techniques

  • A Touch of Glass Feedback

    Stephen Duffell

    Issue 180 (2008)

    p.35

    4mm

    Stephen Duffell, a qualified pathologist, examines the use of microscope cover slips for glazing coaches.

    Tags: coaches, kits, scratchbuilding, techniques

  • Atmospheric Smoke Feedback

    John Dornom

    Issue 97 (1997)

    p.203

    John Dornom follows up his article on smoke effects in MRJ No. 92 with some extraordinary new experiements.

    Tags: techniques

  • Better Baths and Buckets Feedback

    Graham Rayner

    Issue 98 (1997)

    p.269

    The search for good-looking gutters began with the building of galvanised harware. Graham Rayner concludes his looks at aluminium foil fabrication.

    Buckets and watering cans.

    Tags: scratchbuilding, techniques

  • Bridge Over Placid Water Feedback

    Gordon Gravett

    Issue 192 (2009)

    p.173

    1:50

    Gordon Gravett explains how he captured the appearance of water moving slowly in a gentle breeze in a quiet corner of his astonishing Résau Breton layout.

    Tags: techniques, water / waterways

  • Bubble-Free Casting Feedback

    Richard de Camin

    Issue 98 (1997)

    p.256

    Casting resin at home can produce variable results, as Richard de Camin explained in his well-received article in MRJ No. 54. At the time, he wished he'd got a de-gassing machine. Well, now he has, and here's his postscript.

    Tags: techniques, tools

  • Build this with MRJ Feedback

    Issue 65 (1993)

    p.215

    4mm

    We show you how (and supply the tricky bits)

    Preview of the MRJ scratchbuilding project - starting in issue 66 - to build a Manning Wardle type 'F' 0-4-0ST in 4mm scale.

    Tags: scratchbuilding, steam locomotives, techniques

  • Bulk Modelling for Bulk Trains Feedback

    John Webb

    Issue 98 (1997)

    p.258

    John Webb found resin casting a useful technique for mass-produced bulk trains. However, it wasn't quite as smooth and easy as he hoped.

    Tags: techniques, vans

  • Buntingham Feedback

    Ray Hammond

    Issue 49 (1991)

    p.227

    Ray Hammond's 4mm layout completed 100 days of public exhibition during the 1990 Scaleforum - not bad for an experimental model built as a stopgap more than 17 years ago! What it proved, and continues to prove to this day, is that 'pure' Scalefour standards, requiring the scaling down of the prototype without compromise, are a feasible and long-lasting basis on which to build a model railway.

    Tags: BR / British Railways / British Rail, layouts, techniques