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What's new in 2mm scale modelling
Track
- new book now available"Track" is a major new publication from the 2mm Scale Association. The book is applicable to modellers in all scales, not just 2mm/ft. It covers the prototype, how to make parts, jigs, painting and finishing. Available to purchase from 10th January, 2013.
Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:00:34 GMT
From April 2012, the 2mm Shop 4 has been merged with Shop 3. The website has been updated to reflect this change.
Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:10:52 GMT
Four layouts added to website in December 2011, from the smallest in a box-file, the the largest known 2mm layout.
Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:11:38 GMT
Two new instruction guides to building Easitrac Turnouts are now available. These cover many details which are useful to all aspects of turnout construction.
Sun, 22 May 2011 19:54:34 GMT
Drop in replacement wheels for ready to run locomotives. Rapid conversion of N gauge locos to 2FS standards. Available from January 2010.
Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:02:39 GMT
2mm Scale Association members now get 10% discount on orders from Shesto's new online shop. See the members-only page for details.
Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:29:50 GMT
2mm Calendar
2mm Events in the next 6 months
25 May, 2013
Stoke Mandeville Stadium, Guttmann Road, Aylesbury, HP21 9PP
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25 May, 2013
Stoke Mandeville Stadium, Stadium Approach, Aylesbury, Bucks, HP21 9PP
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25 May, 2013
Uckfield, East Sussex
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Wealden Area Group Meeting
Monthly meeting of the Wealden Area Group. For full details please see http://wealden.2mm.org.uk/
26 May, 2013
Stoke Mandeville Stadium, Stadium Approach, Aylesbury, Bucks, HP21 9PP
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30 May, 2013
Bicknacre, Essex
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Darkest Essex Group Monthly Meeting
An evening of 2mm modelling and cake appreciation. Come and join us - all welcome. For more information please see http://darkest-essex.2mm.org.uk/
13 June, 2013
Nonington Kent
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Canterbury Area Group Meeting
South Kent Area Group 1900-2100 Nonington Kent
All welcome
Contact nbastable@gmail.com
22 June, 2013
Wallingford, Oxfordshire
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22 June, 2013
Uckfield, East Sussex
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Wealden Area Group Meeting
Monthly meeting of the Wealden Area Group. For full details please see http://wealden.2mm.org.uk/
23 June, 2013
Wallingford, Oxfordshire
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29 June, 2013
29 June, 2013
29 June, 2013
30 June, 2013
30 June, 2013
30 June, 2013
21 July, 2013
Keen House, 4 Calshot Street, London, N1 9DA
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London Area Group Meeting
Wagon building
27 July, 2013
Uckfield, East Sussex
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Wealden Area Group Meeting
Monthly meeting of the Wealden Area Group. For full details please see http://wealden.2mm.org.uk/
24 August, 2013
RailEx NE
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Fence Houses at RailEx NE
The Parks Sports Centre, Howdon Road, North Shields, NE29 6TL (5 minutes Nth of the Tyne Tunnel).
24 August, 2013
Uckfield, East Sussex
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Wealden Area Group Meeting
Monthly meeting of the Wealden Area Group. For full details please see http://wealden.2mm.org.uk/
25 August, 2013
RailEx NE
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Fence Houses at RailEx NE
The Parks Sports Centre, Howdon Road, North Shields, NE29 6TL (5 minutes Nth of the Tyne Tunnel).
28 September, 2013
Uckfield, East Sussex
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Wealden Area Group Meeting
Monthly meeting of the Wealden Area Group. For full details please see http://wealden.2mm.org.uk/
12 October, 2013
Connaught Leisure Centre, Tongham Road, Aldershot, GU12 4AS.
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26 October, 2013
Uckfield, East Sussex
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Wealden Area Group Meeting
Monthly meeting of the Wealden Area Group. For full details please see http://wealden.2mm.org.uk/
23 November, 2013
Warley
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Fence Houses at Warley
Hall 5, The National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, B40 1NT.
23 November, 2013
Uckfield, East Sussex
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Wealden Area Group Meeting
Monthly meeting of the Wealden Area Group. For full details please see http://wealden.2mm.org.uk/
24 November, 2013
Warley
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Fence Houses at Warley
Hall 5, The National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, B40 1NT.
D604 "Cossack" (Class 41) winner of two trophies at the
2012 AGM.
Model by Andrew Carlson
Expo 2013 - Wallingford
Oxfordshire
22nd/23rd June
A summer festival of 2mm Finescale
Come to Wallingford for a whole weekend of 2mm Finescale. Eight layouts, demonstrations and specialist trade support. Lots of opportunity to discuss how to make models, new techniques, etc.. More details 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.
New Articles from Area Group and Member Blogs
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A West Country Hero - Part 2
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Hydraulic Heaven | 24 May 2013 | 12:31 pm BST
Not quite 'finished', but at least back in one piece (at the last minute) in a presentable state for Railex.
On the whole it's far from perfect (and very shiny just now) but I am very pleased with the result.
I'll say more later. For now, here are a couple of slightly iffy photos (dull and rainy d ....
Friday Night Update - 24 May 2013
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Return of the Sith - Sithlord's Railway Blog | 24 May 2013 | 10:57 am BST
It has been an age since I did one of these - and it hasn't been for a lack of actual modelling. Rather it has been a lack of photos and a lack of motivation to turn on the computer and do something. Now that I have organsied a laptop to take to the Man Cave (aka Train Shed) it should be ....
a few more pics...
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paddock wood bay (in a boxfile) | 22 May 2013 | 10:03 pm BST
Good evening,
A few more pics to share courtesy of Chris, (eastwestdivide) who kindly sent a selection through.
These show a bit more of the layout as I was conscious that my pics from the show tried to capture the overall presentation.
What is apparent and was commented on during the day is the ....
Best laid plans...
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Return of the Sith - Sithlord's Railway Blog | 22 May 2013 | 1:56 am BST
As mentioned at the start of the month, I went and manned a demo desk at the Brisbane Miniature Train Show. Naturally I was, like Caesar, ambitious with what I hoped to do.To give some idea, I took with me the Chivers kits which appeared in the previous post, along with 3 Black 5s to renumber, ....
May Meeting - Locomotive Chassis Building
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2mm London Area Group | 19 May 2013 | 7:30 pm BST
Today's meeting was mainly a talk by Richard Wilson.Also included was distribution of a draft of his "workshop tools" list, which will probably finish up on the VAG - this gave rise to some discussion of various individual items on there, such as optical centre punches, with Richard and Justin using ....
Joined Up Thinking
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Littlemore 2FS | 18 May 2013 | 10:40 pm BST
A lack of posts over the last few weeks has been down to a lack of progress worth sharing. I've spent quite some time trying to get a system of operating the TOUs going over and over the options, trying and failing and re-thinking.
Initially I used wires linked directly from the switches to the TO ....
a week of dwelling...and some thoughts for the future...
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paddock wood bay (in a boxfile) | 17 May 2013 | 10:51 pm BST
Good evening,
Can't believe this time last week I was weathering the roof canopy, painting the track and adding brute trolleys to the ends of the platform
On reflection this week, I have been giving a lot of thought to the future of PWBIAB and indeed all my layouts with our impending move back to ....
packed...unpacked...presented...repacked...epilogue...
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paddock wood bay (in a boxfile) | 12 May 2013 | 8:56 pm BST
Good evening,
An update on how the layout faired and some initial thoughts on my future modelling plans...
Yesterday, PWBIAB was launched at the BHMRC exhibition 2013, a one day exhibition which I exhibited KIAB at in 2010.
Time had run out on me last week, a mixture of work commitments, the unti ....
All the fives and three little ducks - part 1- Body and bogie
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Argos' Blog | 12 May 2013 | 4:50 pm BST
Not much modelling has been achieved in the past few months as I've been using all my spare time to train for an Ironman distance triathlon on the 1st June. However a bad calf strain has all but put pay to that ambition. The silver lining is that I now have a more time for modelling. Fearnan is a ....
Taking a Proper Engine to London
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Hydraulic Heaven | 11 May 2013 | 10:55 pm BST
In a scandalous misuse of the limited time remaining before Railex, Jackie and I took the Cheltenham Flyer from Tyseley to Paddington and Back with 'Castle' class 'Earl of Mount Edgcumbe'.
The run was superb - a storming ascent of Sapperton and some fast running in both directions on the main line. ....
May Meeting and KMRC Open Day
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Pennine 2mm Area Group | 10 May 2013 | 12:12 pm BST
A quick wee note on the May 2013 meeting, on SUNDAY May 12th 2013 at Keighley MRC from 10am, coniciding with the KMRC's open day.The topics for this meeting are -Replacement of curved track at the Bradford end with straight track to interface with fiddle yards. Installation of single slip for Brook ....
50% More Sleep...
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Hydraulic Heaven | 4 May 2013 | 4:55 pm BST
...ing carsThe Met Camm SLC is the first of the four coaches built during the cold season to escape from the paint shop and take its place between its two friends.The build is almost identical to the other two. There are a few minor improvements because I now know more about the real things (and hav ....
April Meeting stuff
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Wealden Area Group | 4 May 2013 | 2:50 pm BST
Greetings from Uckfield in April.
The following photos give an idea of what we#8217;ve been up to in the lead up to the next meeting and Richard#8217;s 10th year challenge.
Nigel brought along the surgically enhanced GWR Collett Goods. This now has loco drive allowing the tender to be cut down to ....
Licence to Model
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St Ruth | 3 May 2013 | 8:55 pm BST
Things are pretty hectic right now getting stuff that we have planned finished in time for Railex but here's a little photo taken at a recent meeting.
Those longer in the tooth may remember this loco on our old group layout 'Helsby Tumill and Haddon'. It was built from a Foxhunter kit by the late ....
keeping calm and carrying on...
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paddock wood bay (in a boxfile) | 2 May 2013 | 10:08 pm BST
Good evening,
With only 9 days to go, I seem to have found myself in a worse position than in 2010 when I exhibited KIAB
A dose of bad luck in that the laser cutter at work broke (and has just been reinstated today) has meant that a few things won't be done in quite the way I had envisaged them, ....
Where has the time gone???
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Return of the Sith - Sithlord's Railway Blog | 1 May 2013 | 12:56 pm BST
"An extremely busy end to 2012 on the domestic front saw less trains being done than I had planned - stuff happened, but more often than not I didn't get around to photographing what I did. I do have some which I will upload in coming days." I wrote this back in February. The title hasn't ....
Treemendous...
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Highclere - 2mm Finescale | 28 Apr 2013 | 7:16 pm BST
Me again!This weekend I havent had musch time (or inclination!) to carry on with the point rodding so instead the short time I had spare I had a go at something else...These have been on my mind for a while now and as usual, the only solution was to experiment!I have been growing my own asparagus fe ....
the clock it ticketh...
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paddock wood bay (in a boxfile) | 25 Apr 2013 | 11:39 pm BST
Good evening,
Work has been progressing as and when I can mid week and weekends but with not long to go I start to wonder what compromises may need to be made to get things done...
With the laser cutter at work still out of action until some time next week (projected) I have trying to progress oth ....
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