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Modelling: Rolling Stock Locomotives Layout Design Techniques Reference MRJ |
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Modelling: Rolling Stock Locomotives Layout Design Techniques Reference MRJ |
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| 7mm Modelling Part 2 Building a Layout | 122pages | Softback |
| Gordon Gravett | 2000 | £15.95 |
| Written and conceived by ace modeller and all round "good egg" Gordon Gravett, this is a really wonderful book. It is full of well thought out and original ideas and unlike some other modelling "ideas" books, the schemes are all born out of practical experience. The book is aimed at the larger scale, but I defy any modeller in smaller scales not to find something of interest within its pages. In addition to very good photography, the book benefits from Gordon's drawings and sketches - wonderful to look at just as pictures. Ditchling Green is well featured, but as Gordon says, he has "poked his camera lens" at lots of other peoples work - how about a layout that masquerades as a grandfather clock when not in use! People who aren't interested in model railways just have no idea what they are missing out on. |
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| 7mm Modelling Part One - An Introduction | 94pages | Softback |
| Gordon Gravett | 1996 | £10.95 |
| The first of two books from the creator of "Ditchling Green", a breathtakingly realistic and atmospheric model railway. Gordon's ideas and techniques are refreshing and often original, appealing to both established 7mm modellers as well as newcomers. A number of models are featured, including a coarse scale line, and there is a sensible discussion of what the trade has to offer. | 
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| Cottage Modelling for Pendon | 92pages | Softback |
| Chris Pilton | 1987 | £12.95 |
| Inspired by Roye England and his Pendon museum of landscape and transport in miniature, Chris Pilton started building models of vernacular architecture in the Vale of the White Horse. This book shows how he goes about this from detailed site measurements and photography through to the modelling and finished painting of each structure, following progress on two particular buildings, one of which is thatched. Modelling aside this book is spiced with many of Roye's priceless images of the Vale taken from the 1930s, including several interior shots which graphically illustrate just how much life has changed on the "home front" for normal working people. | 
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| Great Western Branch Line Modelling Part 2 | 110pages | Softback |
| Stephen Wiliams | 1991 | £12.95 |
| A deservedly popular work of reference for modellers covering prototype buildings, fittings and traffic operation. Fully indexed by location, it is also a very attractive book about branch lines in its own right, with images tending to be historic pre - BR and detailing and illuminating the detail of the subject very well. | 
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| In Search of a Dream | 218pages | Softback |
| Stephen Williams | 2001 | £19.95 |
| A very interesting and full account of Roye England and his life's work, Pendon. An Australian who moved to England in unusual circumstances, Roye England fell in love with the English Countryside and made it his life's work to recreate what he saw in meticulous miniature. The result was Pendon, and this autobiographical book tells its story. The text is augmented and edited by Stephen Williams, and the photographs are largely from Roye's collection. Apart from the illustrations of modelling and the fellowships that Pendon has created, this book is a pictorial testament to a landscape that no longer exists and a detailed record of vernacular architecture. The book is superbly designed and printed and is a real pleasure to read, a well written account of a unique life and achievement. | 
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| Narrow Gauge Railway Modelling | 124pages | Softback |
| Peter Kazer | 2001 | £16.95 |
| Another superlative production from Wild Swan, illustrating and explaining the thinking and methods behind the exquisite models produced by one man. Peter has covered aspects of the subject which have not appeared in other related books, and uses his model of Corris as an example throughout. The book contains a wealth of prototype detail, and covers two other prototypes and models in some depth, the Welsh Highland (model of Dinas Junction) and the Southwold Railway. Reprinted in 2005. |
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| Peter Denny's Buckingham Branch Lines Part 2 1967-1993 | 88pages | Softback |
| Peter Denny | 1994 | £9.95 |
| The second part of this detailed account of what is undoubtedly one of the best model railways ever created. A real imaginative tour de force and superb modelling too - puts "Heckmondwyke" into perspective. | 
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| A Scratchbuilders Guide to Semaphore Signal Construction | 108pages | Softback |
| Peter Squibb | 2010 | £19.95 |
| A very well illustrated and informed guide to making signals, although I have a feeling that the words GWR ought to have been included somewhere in the title. Peter makes the most magnificent and authentic model signals, the results of meticulous and well observed modelling coupled with a knowledge of the subject gained from a lifetime spent working with the real thing. Subjects are mostly GWR as are a large majority of the photographs in the book, although the modelling techniques shown can obviously apply to any company's signals. There are some very good and original techniques shown, including the construction of lattice posts, and the whole book is beautifully produced and extremely well illustrated, with good use of colour photography for the models. | 
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