1:32 Finescale Newsletter No.5 June 2018
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1:32 Finescale Newsletter No.5 June 2018
1:32 Finescale Newsletter No.5 June 2018
Potential Finescale Gauge One Club & Layout
Potential Finescale Gauge One Club & Layout
Group members Geoffrey Clark and Alan Crowther are seeking to form a new Gauge One club. They are looking for suitable premises to rent in the Derby / Nottingham area, with a view to building an indoor electrified layout to one of the Finescale wheel/rail standards.
Following a Notice in G1MRA's Newsletter & Journal 259 in the autumn, they’ll be holding a meeting to discuss matters further and see just what can be achieved. Geoff writes:
"Anybody can contact me on 01332-669497 or 07590-992627
or e-mail: geoffrey.clark3@ntlworld.com “
Sinsheim Technik Museum Germany 23rd/24th June 2018
Sinsheim Technik Museum Germany 23rd/24th June 2018
Perhaps the biggest Gauge One event anywhere
And, guess what? Just about everything will be 1:32 scale :-)
Even on the visiting British track, showcasing Live Steam, one of the stars will be a 1:32 Scale King Arthur.
Gauge 1 North is the next big all-Gauge One show,
Gauge 1 North is the next big all-Gauge One show,
Saturday 14 July 2018 at Bakewell.
This show is organised by Gauge One Yorkshire Group (rather than G1MRA), and is open to the public.
By car, it’s roughly equidistant from Berwick, Holyhead, Bournemouth, Canterbury, Exeter, Swansea, Yarmouth.
Details: http://gauge1north.org.uk/Gauge-1-North-2018.php
While we are not fielding a stand of our own, a fair proportion of us will be there, buying, selling, showing, chatting and just enjoying ourselves. Meanwhile, our travelling companions may well slip over the footbridge to the little market town for sightseeing and shopping, possibly for the notorious Bakewell Pudding (don’t ever say the T-word in this town).
A nice feature of G1N is the I Built it Myself competition, the trophy awarded by public vote.
Is one of us going to win it this year? Have a go.
G1MRA AGM and Trade Show
G1MRA AGM and Trade Show
20th October 2018 at Woking Leisure Centre.
The Trade Show (though not the business meeting) is open to the public and is busily signing up layouts and traders.
I’m hoping we’ll have stand again.
Please consider what you could show or demonstrate so that I know how much space to bag for us.
And indeed, start your shopping lists, and start making arrangements to meet up.
(For the avoidance of doubt, our group stands are for showing, telling, explaining and enthusing, but not selling. Quite rightly, we welcome top-notch professionals exhibiting and demonstrating on our previous stands but, when selling, it’s only fair they should pay for their own Trade Stands.)
Looking back to the G1MRA Spring Meeting, April 2018
Looking back to the G1MRA Spring Meeting, April 2018
This year, the event was at Shepshed, near Loughborough, and was open to the public.
It was everything a Gauge One show ought to be - open, friendly, buzzing without being over-crowded, with lots of interest in trains, products and techniques. Shepshed is little more than a village yet, because it’s near a number of major junctions, people were able to come from most corners of England and Wales.
Our crew of eleven had four tables, under our G1MRA Group banners, in an L-shape right opposite the main entrance:
John Green & Tony Massey are more commonly seen on the superb St Petroc scenic exhibition layout. They illustrated how they build locomotives by displaying their prototype information, their CAD drawings, sample nickel-silver etches and finished locomotives. They are willing to run-off extra sets of etches and 3D parts on a non-commercial basis. Contact them through me if you are interested in building a 1:32 Scale Adams 02 or a Drummond T9 (or a 10mm Scale Beattie Well Tank).
Steve Cook brought some cast resin kits mastered and sold by Fred Phipps, with a view to working on them. However there was so much interest in these highly detailed kits that he talked himself hoarse by the end, and only managed to clean up 8 holes. Success!
Simon Castens brought a ScaleOne32 turnout which, just by itself, is enough to ‘sell’ the Finescale concept to many. (I’ll be sad once it’s laid in his garden, as we’ll no longer be able to show it off.)
In the foreground is Simon's eye-popping Toad, recently featured in a Model Railway Journal article - open in front of him. Now that in itself is high praise, since MRJ is unashamedly Top Drawer.
Very few G1 items have ever made the grade to grace its pages. Shall we take that as a challenge?
Next, an abject apology for this pathetic excuse for a photo: all I can plead is New Camera Syndrome :-(
This corner of the L was un-manned because the relevant exhibitors had duties elsewhere.
The locomotives on the left are commercial products that have been super-detailed and perfectly weathered by G1MRA Committee Member John Taylor:
The wagons and sub-assemblies to the right show how Ken Martin uses 1:32 lost-wax brass castings of his own design to super-detail commercial kits.
Derek Pollard and Chris & Sandra Tolhurst loaned their BR Class 03 shunters, commercial models they had super-detailed to an astonishing degree.
Here’s the inside story of Derek’s Class 03 (the one on the left above):
And this is what that cab interior looks like in situ:
(last two pictures: Derek Pollard)
As always, there was superb work throughout the show:
Spreading the Word
Spreading the Word
You are welcome to email me material, either for these occasional newsletters or the website.
(The newsletters all end up on the website anyway:
https://sites.google.com/view/132finescale/home/news )
Various ink on paper editors’ pipelines contain a few Finescale articles, but they can always do with more.
If you feel diffident about writing, we can find you a Ghostwriter or Editor to help pull your material together.
As Assistant Editor of the G1MRA Newsletter & Journal,
I must declare a vested interest here, though by all means submit material to any publication you like.
A few will even pay you.
Internet Forums are another, quicker, less formal, way to publish.
Again, I have vested interests (viz my general-interest "Gauge One Railway Forum" on Tapatalk, and “Gauge One Railways” on Yahoo Groups) though do consider alternatives:
“Gauge One Model Railways” on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/659767510848279/
(F*Book Phobic? Don’t blame you!
But, as this is a Facebook Group, you can create a minimal Account (with no personal details) to read and contribute. That way, you can avoid the notorious dark underside.)
Western Thunder G1/32 section
http://www.westernthunder.co.uk/index.php?forums/g1-32.28/
This is a division within a ‘larger scales’ Finescale forum.
OK there’s a GWR bias in the prototypes, but it’s not compulsory, and it’s the one site in all the world most sympathetic to our aims.
David Halfpenny
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