The 2mm Finescale Manual covers topics relevant to 2mm model making. It is the replacement for the old Handbook. It will appear in sections, not as a single publication, and will be available primarily online. If you are able to contribute to a new chapter, or part of a chapter, please contact the Magazine Editor who is coordinating this work.

Track and track building.

See the book "Track", available from the 2mm shop.

• Finetracks Turnouts Guide. Published September 2023.
• Easitrac Tools Techniques and Processes Guide, also applicable to other turnout methods (published 2011).
• Easitrac Turnout Construction Guide (published 2011).
• Easitrac "Pegged" Turnout Construction Guide (published 2017)

Couplings

• The DG Coupling. Published June 2021, updated Nov 2021.
• The Alex Jackson Coupling. Published September 2021.
• The Electra Coupling. Published December 2021.

Locomotives

• Ready To Run Loco Chassis Conversions Overview. Published Feb 2022.
• A Jubilee for the Jubilee. Videos showing how to build a locomotive chassis, by Nick Mitchell.
• GWR 64xx, introducing the conversion kit for the Farish Locomotive, by Andy Hanson.
• DY1 Diesel Shunter by Nigel Cliffe.

DCC

• DCC CV calculators for CV29, long addresses and function mapping.
• DCC Controlled Couplers, with CV values for CT and Zimo decoders. Nigel Cliffe
• DCC Tuning CV's in CT Decoders
• DCC Tuning CV's in Zimo Decoders
• DCC Stay Alive

Rolling Stock

• Video of building the Mineral Wagon Kit, by Nick Mitchell
• The Association's Wagon Buffer Range, by David Long
• Building a Banana Van a photo sequence assembly of a 2mm kit
• Scratchbuilding Wagon Bogies by Stephen Harris
• BR Stripcoil Wagon by Stephen Harris
• Weathering off-the-shelf Wagons, by Tim Shackleton

Standards

• Standards for track, wheels and recommendations for underframes and chassis design.

Tools

• A Gear Calculator, to work out the mesh centres of gears
• Miniature Interference Clamps by David C Eveleigh
• Files and the 2mm Modeller by Andrew Webster
• Turning down N gauge wheels, by Graham Roberts and Alisdair Campbell. One approach on how to reprofile N gauge wheels to 2mm Finescale profile. Article from April 2019 2mm Magazine.

Miscellaneous

• Budget Closeup Photography
• A Working Shunting Tractor for Yeovil Town

Information about the 2mm Scale Association

• Member's Handbook/Yearbook with contact information, standards, rules, etc.. etc.. . This is held in the member's only part of the website, and a login will be required to access the information.

 

Archive Material

The following are old material, from our archives. Made available for interest, but probably don't reflect current modelling practises.

• Locomotive Construction
  • A New Approach to Compensation by Stephen Harris (many illustations, so approx 600k):
  • Making Small Motors, first published 1994, compiled from earlier material
• Trackbuilding
  • Turnout Construction by Bill Blackburn (first published in 2000)
• Historically Significant Models
  • A Highland Railway Locomotive in 2mm Scale by John H. Ahern
  • Photographs of the Inversnecky Railway
• Tools
  • The Fonly Drilling Machine by Nigel Cliffe
  • The Fonly Lathe by Nigel Cliffe
• Old Information content
  • About 2mm Scale. Old article, dating back to the late 1990's describing the Association. Kept for historical interest.

 

 

 

 

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