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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
Flexible track for plain line, both wooden and concrete sleepers. Turnout kits with assembly jigs to make assembly problem free. Tracklaying has never been easier !
Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:22:52 GMT
A refreshed visual design and a new logo for track standards. More information in the June Magazine
Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:05:58 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
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2mm Calendar
2mm Events in the next 6 months
4 September, 2010
East Kilbride. Shop 2 Address
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Forth & Clyde Area Group Meeting
For more information contact Colin Brady strath_garve-2mm @yahoo.co.uk
11 September, 2010
Warwickshire Exhibition Centre, Fosse Way, Nr Leamington Spa, CV31 1XN
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12 September, 2010
12 September, 2010
Church Hill, Wilmington, Dartford
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Kent and Essex Area Group Meeting
The Meeting Room at the rear of St Michael's and All Angels Church, Church Hill, Wilmington, Dartford, Kent. All welcome.
Contact Pete Townsend
16 September, 2010
Darkest Essex Area Group
More Details http://darkest-essex.2mm.org.uk/
18 September, 2010
Baildon Recreation Centre, Green Lane, Shipley BD17 5JH
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19 September, 2010
2 October, 2010
Armitage Centre, Moseley Road, Fallowfield, Manchester M14 6HE
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2 October, 2010
Bournmoor, DH4 6ED
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2mm Scale Association AGM
The Annual General Meeting, which includes annual model competitions. For details see 2mm Newsletters of June and August.
(Note Church hall is a tiny bit north on the same street of where Google Maps puts the centre of the post code).
3 October, 2010
3 October, 2010
Church Hill, Wilmington, Dartford
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Kent and Essex Area Group Meeting
The Meeting Room at the rear of St Michael's and All Angels Church, Church Hill, Wilmington, Dartford, Kent. All welcome.
Contact Pete Townsend
NOTE THE CHANGE OF DATE
9 October, 2010
10 October, 2010
16 October, 2010
East of England Showground, Peterborough, PE2 6XE
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16 October, 2010
Uckfield Civic Centre, Civic Approach, Uckfield, East Sussex, TN22 1AE
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17 October, 2010
6 November, 2010
Greenock Town Hall, Greenock
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Connerburn at Greenock
Connerburn by Jim Watt will be at Greenock and District MRC Exhibition in Greenock Town Hall on 6th/7th November 2010 http://www.greenockmrc.co.uk
14 November, 2010
Church Hill, Wilmington, Dartford
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Kent and Essex Area Group Meeting
The Meeting Room at the rear of St Michael's and All Angels Church, Church Hill, Wilmington, Dartford, Kent. All welcome.
Contact Pete Townsend
20 November, 2010
Hall 5, National Exhibition Centre (NEC), Birmingham
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21 November, 2010
11 December, 2010
Robin Park Arena, Sports & Tennis Centre, Loire Drive, Wigan, Lancs, WN5 0UH
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12 December, 2010
12 December, 2010
Church Hill, Wilmington, Dartford
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Kent and Essex Area Group Meeting
The Meeting Room at the rear of St Michael's and All Angels Church, Church Hill, Wilmington, Dartford, Kent. All welcome.
Contact Pete Townsend
5 February, 2011
Oulder Hill Leisure Centre, Huson's Walk, Rochdale. Lancs
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6 February, 2011
50th Anniversary
The celebration of 50 years of 2mm modelling continues throughout 2010.
The next major event will be a special 2mm area within the massive Warley
exhibition on November 20th and 21st. Six superb 2mm finescale layouts,
and a host of demonstrations and experts to answer questions and give
advice.
(Photograph shows Whitney Euston by Mark Cox, this layout and many
others appeared at Expo 2010 and can be seen in the Expo
2010 Gallery )
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
Everything new within the last 30 days. To add your blog or site, please contact webmaster.
NEAG Meeting update
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2mm North East Area Group | 15 Aug 2010 | 7:36 pm BST
First, just a quick word in appreciation of the postings of Tony Simms. Cheerio Tony and thanks for the contributions you have made to the NE blog during the course of your time on it. I'm sure everyone wishes Brafferton wider publicity with RM web. We'll follow with interest.As the picture above sh ....
Locomotive power for Line No4
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IT A DO or the 2mm LAYOUT CHALLENGE BLACK SHEEP | 7 Aug 2010 | 5:24 pm BST
Belated thanks to everyone for a fantastic expo great layouts, much inspiration, lots of nice people and a awful lot of hard work from the organiser's who deserve a big THANK YOUWell I never did take a month off after Expo although Line No4 is still boxed up from Expo. What I have been working o ....
Another Servo problem solved
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Basingstoke Area Group | 14 Aug 2010 | 3:07 pm BST
Not much progress on Freshwater for a few weeks because another problem arose with the servos used for points and uncoupling magnets. As I was adding more and more servos to the layout, I started getting problems switching on the power. On switch-on, the servos would move rapidly, hitting the physic ....
"Jaws"
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Return of the Sith - Sithlord's new Railway Blog | 29 Aug 2010 | 6:16 am BST
As reported, the mission of Friday night was accomplished. The mission of Saturday was also accomplished, up to a point. The photo shows "Jaws", the first BR Shark kit from the NGS. I suspect it will be joined by "Mako" in due course as I can see a 'need' for a second at some point. Still to go are ....
Mission accomplished - for tonight anyway!
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Return of the Sith - Sithlord's new Railway Blog | 27 Aug 2010 | 1:53 pm BST
Last night I announced I would have these wagons ready for the paint works tomorrow - and I am pleased to say (to quote Prof. Higgins) I did it.Two TPM HEAs which are going to be given Precision Bauxite paint jobs for use as barrier wagons with the FNA kit from the same stable, one NGS Shark (with ....
UFOs
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Return of the Sith - Sithlord's new Railway Blog | 26 Aug 2010 | 2:18 pm BST
No pictures - merely something to get me inspired for tomorrow and the weekend. The UFOs are building up again - I got some stuff from the NGS and 2mm FSA as I think I mentioned earlier. This included some TPM HEA kits to flesh out the Nuclear train, another LNWR D88 van, a Shark ballast plough, a ....
60012
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Return of the Sith - Sithlord's new Railway Blog | 24 Aug 2010 | 10:10 am BST
I have always thought it would have been nice if BR had used the names of the LNER Pacifics on the 100 Class 60 diesels - the 34 A4's and first 66 of the A3's which had previously carried 60xxx numbers (the A3's got to 60112).With this in mind, and being inspired by the Fictitious Liveries website ....
MR Meat Van
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Return of the Sith - Sithlord's new Railway Blog | 22 Aug 2010 | 2:58 am BST
Saturday was the Australian General Election - being a History/Social Studies teacher, naturally I watched the coverage and while I was watching I did something useful!As mentioned in previous posts, I was sent a Not Quite Perfect etch of the PC Models Midland Railway Meat Van by Alan at Ultima. Th ....
LNWR Horse Box
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Return of the Sith - Sithlord's new Railway Blog | 20 Aug 2010 | 12:52 pm BST
The most recent item on my work bench - a LNWR 21' Horse Box from the shrunk PC Models etches being offered by Ultima. This is the bits (minus a buffer I notice!) which come in the kit plus 4 bearings and a pair of 7mm wheels from the 2mm FSA. Still to fit is the roof (a spare from the GE Etches fr ....
GWR P19 - Part II
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Return of the Sith - Sithlord's new Railway Blog | 15 Aug 2010 | 9:24 am BST
I didn't get much done over the week - and this is delayed given my self-imposed deadline of Fridays for updates - due to having my parents visit for Darling Daughter 2's third birthday (where does the time go I ask myself!).What I did manage to get done was putting the transfers Richard Bardsley s ....
A Picture is worth...
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Return of the Sith - Sithlord's new Railway Blog | 6 Aug 2010 | 1:03 pm BST
...well a lot actually. I don't know about a thousand words (but as a teacher I have seen some 1000 word essays which have pictures springing to mind - normally cartoons with the top row of the keyboard in the thought/speech bubble!) but certainly the value of pictures to our hobby cannot be oversta ....
Flying Banana - Part VI
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Highclere - 2mm Finescale | 21 Aug 2010 | 9:35 pm BST
Hello ... ....
Is this a valid excuse not to model?
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Highclere - 2mm Finescale | 16 Aug 2010 | 7:34 pm BST
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Flying Banana - Part Va
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Highclere - 2mm Finescale | 3 Aug 2010 | 7:17 pm BST
Hello OK. Third time lucky? 03-08-10-01.jpg 03-08-10-02.jpgTo me it looks much better and you can see by how much gap there is between the roof and the top of the windows how much I have lowered them. I havent figured out the best way to fill that gap yet!Missy ....
Coombe Junction - M M M My Sharon(a)...
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coombe junction - moorswater | 22 Aug 2010 | 5:55 pm BST
Update...Back from hols in France...have swapped rain for heat and looking forward to getting back in the modelling groove.Plenty of things to get on with, namely progressing the third board of Moorswater and also the second phase of scenics to the second board, however whilst away I thought of an i ....
Coombe Junction - Excuse my French...
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coombe junction - moorswater | 14 Aug 2010 | 9:20 am BST
Bonjour Tout Monde - Good Moaning... ....
Peace for our time
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Elan | 10 Aug 2010 | 1:49 am BST
It's early 1939. The country is living in hope that Neville Chamberlain's Munich Agreement will buy the time the country needs. One of the coldest and whitest winters on record is ending, and people are looking back on the previous year, wondering whether there will be another christmas to enjoy.J ....
Well Lubricated
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Brafferton - 2mm Finescale | 24 Aug 2010 | 8:29 pm BST
As promised, I returned to the D49 today. And then remembered why it got put to one side.Not only did the cab roof need attaching, but there was also the (very) small matter of the Wakefield Lubricators. Even with a good kit (and this is an excellent kit) there will be a point where you have to use ....
Woody End
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Brafferton - 2mm Finescale | 8 Aug 2010 | 5:10 pm BST
Time to address the left-hand end of the layout. In real life, the line just plodded on over several miles of open farmland before reaching Pilmoor Junction. This would look a bit odd, running the line through an undisguised hole in the backscene. Time to invoke my modellers licence!There are severa ....
2mm Website Link
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Brafferton - 2mm Finescale | 4 Aug 2010 | 8:10 pm BST
Thanks to Nigel Cliffe 2mm Chairman and technical boffin, this blog is now linking back to the 2mm.org.uk site.So if you use that to scan blog updates, I'll appear there.Thank you, Nigel. ....
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