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Volume 81 | Issue 426

September 2024

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6 | TREVOR’S SHED - A PHOTO ESSAY. A look at Trevor Cheer’s Layout.

11 |BUILDING WA 289 PART 2. John Atkinson - It’s never too late to star t again.

16 | TITANIUM SOLDERING CLAMPS. Brian McKenzie shares another approach to clamping parts while soldering.

18 | WOOLSHED. Bruce Alchin builds Garth Cook’s new Woolshed kit.

20 | ALL BITS COMBINED. Michael Jarka gives a histor y of the Auckland Bus Company ‘ABC’.

22 | GRAMPS’ AND COLE’S MINING COMPANY. Ashburton modeller Andrew Hewitt shares a 1:37 scale Tasmanian inspired layout concept.

29 | THE STOKER STORY Stoker model products.

30 | PRODUCT REVIEW: CRAFTMASTER MODEL RAILWAY BASEBOARDS. Lewis Holden reviews.

32 | CHRISTCHURCH MODELLERS GROUP A summary of recent news compiled by Peter Ross.

ON THE COVER A scene from Trevor Cheer’s layout. A coal train crossing the small through truss bridge over the gorge, B303 (built by Paul Berntsen) hauls a load of unbraked Q wagons, kits designed and built by Tony Simons and finished by Trevor.

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