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==== Category 6 - Scenic Models: Buildings, Trees, Signals etc, (THE JACK KINE TROPHY) ====

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**(4mm) Banner Repeater Signals**

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These are largely scratch built other than the case front and signal arms which are etched products from MSE. They are worked by HobbyKing servos and have working LED lamps inside the Modelu lamp housings. Ladders are Masokits etchings.
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**(N) Dutch Lift Bridge**

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N Gauge, 1:160.  A scratchbuilt Dutch lift bridge made from plastic strip and brass wire based on those at Arnhem Open Air Museum.  The side rails are hinged and connected to fine chain which in turn is connected to the main lift chains.  The bridge is balanced with a small piece of lead and will open if required and can be posed in any position.  It is 42mm high from the bridge deck.  It does not have an operating rope as the prototype does not have one, presumably to stop visitors opening the bridge.
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**(HO) RGS Lizard Head bunkhouse**

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Lizard Head Pass above Trout Lake in SW Colorado was where the Rio Grande Southern crossed from the San Miguel river basin to the Dolores river, at a bit over 10000 feet. Here there was a small station, facilities for stock loading and a very basic bunk house for the section crew who looked after the railway.

The HO scale model is scratchbuilt in styrene using Evergreen sheet stock, and Wills stone for the foundation.  The door and double-pane windows are all scratchbuilt too.  The porch floor is wood.  The roof is correctly planked on the underside with a tissue covering to represent tar paper. The chimney was hand-laid from individual Juweela HO bricks to the RGS style.  There are lights inside that represent an oil lamp on a table and a small fire in the grate.  
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**(7mm) Padfracombe Goods Shed**

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The goods shed has been built for my ‘O’ gauge layout and is based on the shed at Ilfracombe. It is somewhat shorter but is still over 700mm long. All sides and roof are cut on the club’s laser cutter from thin MDF using a stone wall pattern manipulated on the computer to get the right size and shape of stones. The quoins were cut separately and glued in place. Filler masked the gaps. It was painted a stone colour using emulsion and then dry brushed with greys and rust coloured enamels. The roof is removable, with finely cut trusses, glued to an MDF flat surface and covered in paper cut into rows of slates. Guttering is from an umbrella found at a tip!! The windows are cut from white Rowmark plastic, two pieces being used to sandwich a layer of clear acrylic. There is an interior platform and a white metal crane.
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**(4mm) ROMFORD STATION MAIN BUILDING**

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This is a scratch built P4 scale representation of the main station building as it was in the 1970s.  A scale drawing was made of the building based upon historic documents and photographs, from which laser cut Romark components were produced and constructed.  The cornices are wooden moulding from The Model Shop at Tower Bridge.  The art deco lights at the front of the station are made from Biro pen shafts and are fitted with LED lights.  Signage is from Sanky Scenics and Wills lettering.
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**(N) Small Farmhouse**
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N Gauge, 1:160. A small Dutch farmhouse from the middle of the Netherlands made from a Tilly Models resin kit, plus a lot of filling and filing!  Painted in acrylics.  Approx. 60mm square.
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