Here's the start of an occasional list of what articles I have ready for publication.
With the June 2021 issue ready to go to the printers this is what is left for me to publish:
Layout articles - 8
Fiddle yard design - 1 (or is that 3? I must talk to the author)
Motive power - 2
Stock - 1
Scenery - 2
I would love to have some more articles about building stock or motive power. Articles about prototypes are also welcome. I really look forward to getting articles about exhibitions!
I'm building up a collection of pugbash pictures. I need a few more to make an article - prepares for the deluge ;)
Stuart
Wot! No blue pencil?!! ;)
No promises, but I may have a somewhat light-hearted (i.e. freelance) bit of rolling stock bashing in the pipeline. It involves a plasticard technique that I've not mastered yet. I'm getting there slowly, but it may still all end up in the bin. Failure rate is such that I've not managed to make one of what I need and I need two and they must match well...
Stuart
I have another couple of Replacement Stock for the CM R articles at an advanced stage.
Malcolm
Quote from: Malcolm on April 28, 2021, 14:15
Stuart
I have another couple of Replacement Stock for the CM R articles at an advanced stage.
Malcolm
Quote from: GraemeD on April 28, 2021, 10:30
No promises, but I may have a somewhat light-hearted (i.e. freelance) bit of rolling stock bashing in the pipeline. It involves a plasticard technique that I've not mastered yet. I'm getting there slowly, but it may still all end up in the bin. Failure rate is such that I've not managed to make one of what I need and I need two and they must match well...
Thanks guys
Stuart
Well, I have now typed out the basic article detailing the Egger-bahn bogie stanchion wagons, all fifteen versions, including info on the cars and the cement mixer and later 'fakes'.
I will need to read it through a few times to polish it up a bit and also take the photos to go with it of the various wagons etc, this should take a couple of days, but it should be done by the weekend.
So I decided I wanted to scratch build a flat car based on the Barsi Light Railway of India. I found a grainy image on the internet and a few basic dimensions. Length and width that's all. Next question to myself was, what material? I decided on cardboard (backing from a 2018 calendar) and some hardwood strips I had lying around. To give it some weight I would use
what every I had in my junk box. The only plastic would be it's bogies.
The project started off well, when a thought came to mind while working on it, why not have it published in the 009 magazine. Now a year has passed and I have just started to work on it. I do get discouraged when my fingers don't quite cooperate with me. I hope to finish it soon, and perhaps post some pictures on the forum. It's just a simple basic cardboard flat car, with no bells or whistles.
I like all the old narrow gauge railways of India. Drawings of wagons etc seem hard to come by.
Robin.
Quote from: Robin Webster on April 28, 2021, 21:26
The project started off well, when a thought came to mind while working on it, why not have it published in the 009 magazine. Now a year has passed and I have just started to work on it.
We could have a competition on who takes the longest to complete an item :D :D
I've just finished some coaches that I started over 2 years ago
Stuart
I might lay a possible claim to the title of longest time to complete a kit.
During lockdown 1 I found a box containing three 009 coach kits that I'd brought about 45 years ago two were unopened one had been opened and a start made on it but for some reason it was put back in the box unfinished. All three are now finished and in use.
Looking at the price tags on the unopened kits the new Peco couplings I fitted to them cost more than the kits!
I'm reviewing the back pocket ahead of the August issue and I have:
- Layouts - 10
Motive Power - 9
Scenery - 1
Stock - 1
Modelling Techniques - 1
I think I know how the next few issues are going to be biased ;D
Seriously, what I found with the last issue was a shortage of one page articles. A good picture and 700 words or 3 or 4 pictures and 500 words are always welcome.
Stuart
So long as there aren't any Page three articles (hem hem)
:)
Quote from: hughn on June 13, 2021, 15:05
So long as there aren't any Page three articles (hem hem)
:)
Page 3 is often the problem page ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: hughn on June 13, 2021, 15:05
So long as there aren't any Page three articles (hem hem)
:)
A locomotive with no boiler cladding. :o
Hi Stuart,
I have recently returned to 009 after 40 years in 0 gauge. One of the first things I did was bashed a Pug. Photo attached. Ken
Quote from: Ken Davidge on June 23, 2021, 22:07
Hi Stuart,
I have recently returned to 009 after 40 years in 0 gauge. One of the first things I did was bashed a Pug. Photo attached. Ken
Ken
That looks great. If you want to send in a full article that would be great. Alternatively just a picture and a paragraph would go towards a general pugbash article as I have several of these already and I can make a bigger article out of lots of smaller items.
All the best
Stuart
I'll put some coal in the tender and some tools and write a few words for you. Ken
Everyone
The simple answer to the this thread is "Not a Lot". Seriously, I think summer and the end of restrictions in the UK has meant fewer people have put pen to paper and I am now dangerously short on articles so if you have been thinking of writing something then now woudl be a fantastic time to start writing.
700+ words is good along with 6 to 10 pictures which, together, can usually be formed into a two page article. I'll take any permutation really but hopefully that will give you a guide.
Stuart
The forum software has just told me there has been no post on this topic for over 120 days! All that means is that articles have been in good supply but are now rapidly dwindling having just completed the February issue.
Layout articles - 6
Locomotives - 1
Stock - 2
If you managed some modelling over Christmas then how about writing up what you have done!
Stuart