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  • The Plug Track functions are experimental and still being developed. Some of the earlier pages of this topic are now out-of-date.

    For an updated overview of this project see this topic.   For some practical modelling aspects of using Plug Track see Building 3D Track.

    The assumption is that you have your own machines on which to experiment, or helpful friends with machines. Please do not send Templot files to commercial laser cutting or 3D printing firms while this project is still experimental, because the results are unpredictable and possibly wasteful.

    Some pages of this and other topics include contributions from members who are creating and posting their own CAD designs for 3D printing and laser-cutting. Do not confuse them with Templot's own exported CAD files. All files derived from Templot are © Martin Wynne.
  • The Plug Track functions are experimental and still being developed.

    For an updated overview of this project see this topic.   For some practical modelling aspects of using Plug Track see Building 3D Track.

    The assumption is that you have your own machines on which to experiment, or helpful friends with machines. Please do not send Templot files to commercial laser cutting or 3D printing firms while this project is still experimental, because the results are unpredictable and possibly wasteful.

    Some pages of this and other topics include contributions from members who are creating and posting their own CAD designs for 3D printing and laser-cutting. Do not confuse them with Templot's own exported CAD files. All files derived from Templot are © Martin Wynne.

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Railway Modeller magazine have today announced that their digital subscribers now have access to the entire searchable back number archive of RM, back to the very first issues in 1949. Over 800 magazines. All those classic issues, all those CJF track plans and drawings. :)

It means all the CJF track plans have been scanned ready for you -- take a screenshot from the page, or download a PDF of any page. Into a picture shape, stretch it a bit to make the sizes more sensible, and you have a wonderful resource of ideas and inspiration for Templot track planning.

I may be gone for some time. :)

Martin.
 
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Plus of course the advertisements. Look what just appeared on my screen:

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That was September 1977. And here I am, 44 years later, still tinkering about with bits of railway track.

Looking at the prices I was charging then, and the current C&L web site, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. :)

The EM kit was actually a proper B-6, likewise the machined switch blades were a proper B planing. But Howes knew that no RM reader at that date would know what any of that meant (assuming they knew themselves). The 00 kits were a more generalised design -- but when I supplied them ready-made I made them to the "EM minus 2" standard. It caused no great fuss at the time, I had no idea how much argument I was letting myself in for when I later included it in Templot with the name 00-SF.

It was only 2 years later that I drew the first Templot template -- plotted on 1mm graph paper from dimensions showing on the screen of a programmable calculator. There are still a few bits of that calculator code in Templot -- geometry doesn't change.

Martin.
 
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Plus of course the advertisements. Look what just appeared on my screen:

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That was September 1977. And here I am, 44 years later, still tinkering about with bits of railway track.

Looking at the prices I was charging then, and the current C&L web site, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. :)

The EM kit was actually a proper B-6, likewise the machined switch blades were a proper B planing. But Howes knew that no RM reader at that date would know what any of that meant (assuming they knew themselves). The 00 kits were a more generalised design -- but when I supplied them ready-made I made them to the "EM minus 2" standard. It caused no great fuss at the time, I had no idea how much argument I was letting myself in for when I later included it in Templot with the name 00-SF.

It was only 2 years later that I drew the first Templot template -- plotted on 1mm graph paper from dimensions showing on the screen of a programmable calculator. There are still a few bits of that calculator code in Templot -- geometry doesn't change.

Martin.
Hi Martin

“Braised frogs” sounds more like a delicacy than anything to do with railway modelling!

It’s a shame we can’t download the magazine in its entirety, as you can with Hornby Magazine, for instance, although we can download individual pages as you mentioned. I wonder how long it’ll take to download 800+ magazines a page at a time! 😂

I may also be gone some time! I must keep going with scanning my negatives otherwise I’ll get distracted and never finish, but I do need something to do on the computer during the actual scanning part of the process! I might start with the Ian Beattie drawings…

Cheers,
Paul
 
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On Railway Modeller's Facebook page they've given a link for those without a subscription to receive one hour's access to preview the archive Use that hour wisely!

Edit - it's possible that the link won't work for you as it has a load of tracking info embedded in it. If not, you'll need to go to Railway Modeller's Facebook page and look for their post.
 
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Use that hour wisely!

A good way might be to download PDFs as fast as you can!

Each PDF is a 2-page spread.

You might like to start by looking at the seminal articles on Adavoyle's P4 loco chassis construction by Tony Miles and David Goodwin - January 1982 issue, page 8. Two of Tony's locos had full working valve gear, and one of them won a Gold Medal at the Model Engineer exhibition. Not many 4mm locomotives do that. He didn't tell me he had entered it, and on walking into the 1988 exhibition I was amazed to see a familiar loco in a glass case with a large Gold rosette on it. :)

Tony's article about that model, GNR(I) Q Class no.123, is on page 506 of the November 1988 issue.

Martin.
 
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I used to love the "How to " articles. Where small projects were described using materials found st home in what we now call the recycling pile. Matchsticks, cereal boxes and tin cans were the favourite items, not forgetting card straws
 
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This is addictive :) I've spent some time trawling back through early editions; my first Modeller was the October 1957 one which included Theo Pearson's North Midland empire, and I acquired further editions intermittently over the years along with MRNs and MRCs.

On the way a number of very long standing questions have been answered, including what layouts could be glimpsed as illustrations in various adverts. One such was Charlie Wherli's Balsa Magna in the Jan 1954 RM, a small town terminus which Peco used in its adverts for Pecoway track. And I found the buildings my father built for my brother's HD were Anorma; unfortunately by the time I got my hands on the HD they were falling apart, I think they were a rush job.

Happy days. Think Peco is on a winner with this.

Nigel
 
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Just reading the current (November) RM, and read "...a drawing that was published in the January 1975 edition...". That article has now been saved to my PC! My physical copies only go back to 1981.
 
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A good way might be to download PDFs as fast as you can!

Each PDF is a 2-page spread.

You might like to start by looking at the seminal articles on Adavoyle's P4 loco chassis construction by Tony Miles and David Goodwin - January 1982 issue, page 8. Two of Tony's locos had full working valve gear, and one of them won a Gold Medal at the Model Engineer exhibition. Not many 4mm locomotives do that. He didn't tell me he had entered it, and on walking into the 1988 exhibition I was amazed to see a familiar loco in a glass case with a large Gold rosette on it. :)

Tony's article about that model, GNR(I) Q Class no.123, is on page 506 of the November 1988 issue.

Martin.
Those articles have also been saved! At the time, motorising kits was a very crude affair, then along came Tony Miles to show us how to do it!
 
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Something to be aware of when downloading the PDFs is that they use the same file names for each issue. It would be easy to accidentally overwrite some previously downloaded files if your downloads all go into the same folder.

Martin.
 
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Something to be aware of when downloading the PDFs is that they use the same file names for each issue. It would be easy to accidentally overwrite some previously downloaded files if your downloads all go into the same folder.

Martin.
I prefix the page number with the year and month which keeps things tidy, then append a brief description, so one of yesterday's is called "1975-01 31 Minffordd" for example. I don't go to the extent of concatenating the separate pages into a single article though!
 
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Gosh, Peco don’t hang around removing access to the digital archive when the paper issue subscription expires! Still, I have the 40+ years of paper copies…

I let the subscription lapse because of constant late or missing issues. In fact, although the May issue turned out to be my last one on subscription, I didn’t get the renewal reminder until about the same time as the June issue was released - not much notice!

Oh, and I prefer the covers with the contents on rather than the plain subscriber covers. Seems to be a bit of a marmite subject, that one!
 
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I let the subscription lapse because of constant late or missing issues.

Do you mean the printed issues? I have the digital subscription -- the email announcing a new issue is always a couple of days early.

cheers,

Martin.
 
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Do you mean the printed issues? I have the digital subscription -- the email announcing a new issue is always a couple of days early.

cheers,

Martin.

I meant the printed issues. I got the emails about the digital issues a couple of days before release, including for the out of subscription June issue! I’ve now clarified my post.
 
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