December 2021

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The best in Australian Railway Modelling

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Australians are very lucky, as a big country with a low population, space is not that much of a concern (overall). However, when it comes to layout construction, this space competes with other ‘family’ priorities. A large proportion of the Australian
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Pirie
This is the story of the late Rob Burford’s model railway ambitions. Rob started with a Hornby–Dublo train set, later taking an interest in the North American Norfolk and Western system; back in those days, this was still a big-time steam railroad. N
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Materials List
• Eureka Models BH coach • Auscision Models RUB coach (or other suitable roof) • Casula Hobbies RUB coach spares • Casula Hobbies torpedo roof vents • 1mm styrene sheet for new interior • 1.5mm x 2.5mm styrene strip for bracing • 0.25mm x 1.5mm styre
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Kit-bash A Countrylink RDH Coach
The RDH coach was introduced as an uncoded class buffet coach designed to complement the ABS dining coach on the Gold Coast Motorail. With the progressive conversion of airconditioned sitting cars into day / night style coaches, there was an increase
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Modelling Modern-era Containers Part 3: Domestic Containers
General purpose 48–53 foot containers are extremely common on domestic rail freight services and are ideally suited to low-density high-cubic sized freight that commonly consists of consumer goods found in supermarkets and retail shops. Early 9 foot
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At A Glance
Name: Walloon Scale: HOn3½ Period: QR (mid to late 1980s) Layout Type: exhibition format, station to fiddle yard Layout Size: 5.2 m x 2.0 m Rail height above floor: 1.0 m Baseboards: grid pattern with incorporated backdrops and lighting Track:
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Walloon in HOn3½
Who would have thought that a mid-1980s weekend drive, armed with a camera and three rolls of film, would produce a captivating exhibition layout? This is a layout that captures the essence of a location, depicting something uniquely Australian. John
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At A Glance
Name: Pirie Scale: HO Period: late steam to early diesel SAR and CR Layout: triple deck with staging Layout Size: 7.0 m x 3.3 m rectangle and a 2.5 m x 2.4 m L-shape addition Rail height above floor: three-level layout between 885 mm and 1835 mm
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Aurizon’s QQWYs
In 2015 Bradken Rail delivered 60 two-pack 48ft well wagons to Aurizon for their standard gauge intermodal operations. Built in China, Bradken delivered these wagons via Western Australia’s Fremantle port in July 2015. These wagons were part of a 175
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Peak R-t-r?
I was on the phone to a train modelling friend the other day and we were laughing about our early kit building efforts stretching back into the eighties and nineties. I built my first steam locomotive kit in 1994 and the reason I remember the year so
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Managing Editor Scott Fitzgerald Editorial Assistants Alan McKenna, Phil Knife Consultants Chris Jones Office Manager Melissa Cullen Subscription and Sales Coordinator Karen Baldini Illustrators Ian Thorpe Design John Casey Computer Programmer Graham
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Micro Layouts
Everyone has their own focus and goals in the hobby. It leads to a set of requirements and design values that govern how we go about it. Personally, I’ve always liked minimum space layouts that allow me to focus on only a few elements and features at
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Parke
In Melbourne, Victoria, there are a few locations that are particularly interesting to me. Certainly, the inspiration for ‘Parke’ came from looking at photos of Fitzroy goods yard before it was closed. ‘Parke’ was never meant to be a representation o
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Port Flora
An example of a different kind of inspiration is ‘Port Flora’ inspired by some particular models – the IDR W class and the Austrains Y class. They are perfect locomotives for a shunting layout. They run beautifully and look terrific. They’re small an
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Northern Banks
On my Layout ‘Northern Banks’, I wanted to depict a rural freight terminal in NSW, but served by the Victorian system north of Echuca. I like that part of the country because its landlocked and arid. It is my only attempt in VR N scale so far. I’ve e
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Making A Sector Plate
Diagram One offers some insight as to how I built the sector plate for my as yet unnamed NSW layout. Two layers of 1/8th inch cork were used to raise the rail level for the movable deck, which is 6 mm high. As it happens, an 1/8th inch is close to 3.
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Realistic Backdrops Using Aerosol Paints
To create a realistic painted backdrop, you can use a technique called misting to replicate the colour gradient of a cloudless sky. Basically this technique uses light misting of differing hues of aerosol paint cans, to create the sky colour gradient
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AMRM News
Bergs Minimodels has received pilot models of their HO scale r-t-r 1955 Commonwealth Engineering ‘Sputnik’ set W1 in the ‘Zoo Train’ Orangutan livery and set W2 in the Sydney Sesquicentenary floral themed livery, both applied in 1992. Trailer and po
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Kevin Kavanagh 26th January 1928 – 1st September 2021
One of the most rewarding aspects of our hobby is the friendships you make and share this hobby with. A few of us had the chance to share our hobby with a talented modeller and enjoyed operating his layout. Every year Kevin reminded the group that th
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Mailbag
On reading the preamble relating to ‘Trains Worth Modelling, NSW Mail Trains’ on page 52 of the August issue of the magazine, I note mail trains described as being effectively ‘mixed trains’ with lots of shunting enroute and at terminal stations. In
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Mailbag
Australian MODEL RAILWAY Magazine welcomes letters on any pertinent model railway subject for inclusion in Mailbag. Letters should be sent to Mailbag, SCR Publications, PO Box 345, Matraville 2036, emailed to amrmagzn@tpg. com.au or faxed to (02) 966
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Diary
COWES – VIC. January 15–16, 2022. Phillip Island & District Railway Modellers Show. Senior Citizens Hall, 6 Lions Court, Cowes. Open 10am–5pm (Sat), 10am–4pm (Sun). $8 Adults, $5 U/15, $20 Family. Check website for any COVID-19 changes. Grant Colwell

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