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A full colour A4 20-page booklet describing the history and making of this premier league 2FS layout. Available to buy from this website.

Sun, 08 Aug 2021 11:07:01 GMT

Wheel turning service temporary suspension

The Wheel Turning service is temporarily suspended. Our wheel turner is unwell. All orders in progress have been completed, but any new orders will be returned without work being done. We'll update this news as and when we have information about the service re-starting.

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 12:15:43 GMT

Now on YouTube

The 2mm Scale Association has added a YouTube Channel, where we will place videos of model techniques and of interest to our members.

Sun, 29 Nov 2020 10:41:52 GMT

Expo 2020 postponed to 2022

With the Covid-19 virus pandemic, we have postponed the Diamond Jubilee Expo. The Diamond Jubilee Layout Challenge will also be delayed. Our current plan is to hold the event in the summer of 2022.

Wed, 18 Mar 2020 17:51:33 GMT

Diamond Jubilee Layout Challenge

In anticipation of the 60th Anniversary of the 2mm Scale Association, we are running a layout building challenge to encourage as many layouts as possible to be available for the jubilee year.

Sat, 30 Mar 2019 09:35:28 GMT

Jubilee loco chassis construction

Nick Mitchell constructs a chassis for a LMS 4-6-0 Jubilee locomotive, videoing each step of the process.

Sat, 08 Sep 2018 12:25:05 GMT

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"Harry Gall's cottage and shop" by Steve Martin, one of the 2020 AGM competition winners.

Annual Model Competition 2021 and AGM will be held online. Details on the AGM 2021 page

June 2nd-4th Online Zoom video workshop: "How to Build the BR 16T Wagon Taster Kit". Video now available

Future events are described on the Events page.

The 2mm Scale Association exists to promote and facilitate modelling at the scale of 2mm:1ft. The scale has a long history as the smallest practical finescale standard.

By joining the Association, members gain access to a wealth of knowledge and our exclusive component range designed to enable simple and accurate construction.

Find out how to get started in 2mm FineScale; with the products available from the 2mm Scale Association its easier than you might think.

Our component ranges include jigs and alignment tools which remove the guesswork and need for specialist measuring equipment from precision model making. We also produce booklets which explain the construction techniques which have been developed over the years.

To keep our members in touch we produce a bi-monthly magazine and newsletter. For those with access to the internet we offer an email list where members can chat about anything pertinent to 2mm model making.

This website contains information about the Association and 2mm standards, articles about model making, and photographs to inspire the model maker.

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September 2021 Meeting Source: 2mm Kent and Essex Area Group | 20 Sep 2021 | 12:23 am BST

This month marks the beginning of something, at least that's what we are hoping for the return to face-to-face meetings. Tentative first steps were taken in that a few ventured to our normal meeting hall in Dartford. Partly because of travel distance and other commitments we decided to hold a Zoom m ....

August 2021 Meeting Source: 2mm Kent and Essex Area Group | 19 Sep 2021 | 2:29 pm BST

This month there was a certain optimism that we could at last see a possible light at the end of the Covid tunnel, maybe a perceived chink of light was enough to spark speculation that we might be able to meet face to face again in a month or two. Our Zoom contact has been very worthwhile spanning o ....

September 2021 Forth and Clyde Area Group Meeting Source: Forth & Clyde Area Group | 11 Sep 2021 | 6:21 pm BST

On 4th September, the ESME Pleasure Palace was, once again, graced by the august presence of some gentlemen of the Forth and Clyde Area Group of that splendid organisation, the 2mm Scale Association. (Of course, all that goes to show is that they were behind the times as usual, as it wasn't august a ....

August 2021 Forth and Clyde Area Group Meeting Source: Forth & Clyde Area Group | 17 Aug 2021 | 8:57 pm BST

After the miserable attendance figures for the Group meeting in July, numbers were considerably increased for the August meeting. Eight stalwarts met at the ESME Pleasure Palace, albeit after having been reminded of where their loyalties lay, by some burly visitors to their houses carrying base ....

Grampian Area Meeting 7th August 2021 Source: 2mm Grampian Area Group | 8 Aug 2021 | 1:25 pm BST

At last! After nearly 18 months we have finally been able to get together and also meet one of our new members Paul Doyle. We met in Tony's back garden with gazebo duly errected due to the forecast, but thankfully the rain stayed away. A special thanks must go to Tony's son John and Paul for supplyi ....

NEAG Meeting (yes, physical meeting..!) 31st July 2021 Source: 2mm North East Area Group | 31 Jul 2021 | 10:55 pm BST

I am pleased to be able to report that fifteen NEAG members attended the NEAG HQ today and 'resumed' (we hope) what we joined the 2mm Scale Association to do - namely associate with like minded souls, rabbit on about model railways, matters pertaining to them, generally socialise finishing off wit ....

July 2021 Meeting Source: 2mm Kent and Essex Area Group | 25 Jul 2021 | 10:56 pm BST

Amongst the continuing uncertainty and confusion over COVID 'Freedom day', comes the promise of meeting for real in the near future. A welcome piece of news is the prospect that our Church Hall base will be open for a real meeting in September.Alan expresses our collective hope; "...... I cannot wai ....

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March 2020: Annual editing of the feed list threw up a few dead blogs, so they've been removed from the auto-checker (which has also fixed the page load speed - it was waiting for these dead blogs to not answer). If you've re-started your blog, and it doesn't appear in the list below, or postings fail to appear above, please get in touch with the webmaster.

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