Booking for the Spring 2022 weekend is currently open
Unsure if our weekend is right for you, use the contact page to discuss your concerns.
Courses this Spring
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| 4mm Locomotive & Kit Construction | ||
| Our ever popular course catering for the construction of 4mm or smaller locomotives and rolling stock kits. This Spring will see regular course tutors Tony Gee and Tim Watson in attendance to help modellers work on their rolling stock. |  |
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| Weathering | ||
| This Spring we will be offering both air brush weathering with Chris Hopper as tutor and non-airbrush weathering with Andrew Thompson. This is a hands-on course in which modellers will weather their own stock. Throughout the weekend both Andrew and Chris will give demonstrations. |  |
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| Advanced Semaphore Signals | ||
| This ‘hands-on’ course is a follow-on course from our previously help Semaphore Signalling course, however it is not restricted to those that have attended that course and modellers with little or no previous experience of semaphore signal construction are welcome to attend. Karl Crowther will help modellers in constructing working semaphore signals. |
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| 7mm Locomotive & Kit Construction | ||
| A hands-on course for 7mm and larger scale modellers in which they work at their own pace with experienced rolling stock building Kevin Wilson as the tutor. Attendees bring along their rolling stock projects to progress over the course of the weekend. |  |
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| Painting & Lining | ||
| Ian Rathbone returns to Missenden Abbey to tutor the painting and lining course. This is a mixture of a taught course with hands-on painting and lining exercises. Modellers usually bring a few models to paint and/or line under the expert tuition of master painter Ian Rathbone. |  |
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| Structure Modelling | ||
| You will have an opportunity to work at your own pace on one or more structures of your choice. Your tutor, Jerry Clifford, will be available to help you with your project whether it is making the most of a basic cardboard or plastic kit or a specific scratch-built replica based on a prototype. |
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| Backscenes & Scenic Modelling | ||
| Professional scenic artist Paul Bambrick who has created 3D backscenes on many layouts. In this course Paul helps modellers create the back scenes they have always wanted to. The course is a mixture of hands-on exercises, demonstrations and discussions. You do not need to be artist to achieve results with this course. |  |
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| 3D CAD for Railway Modellers | ||
| Our tutor Justin Newitt leads you through the complexity of using 3D CAD packages to produce items for your railway. This course is designed to give the modeller those skills they need in order to take advantage of all the new production techniques available to the modeller. |  |
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The Spring 2022 weekend has been confirmed as running from Friday 4th to Sunday 6th of March 2022. We are hopeful, following the successful running of our Autumn 2021 weekend, that the Spring 2022 weekend will go ahead as near normal as is possible. We will however continue to monitor the Covid-19 situation and make adjustments as required.
The list of courses we will be running over this weekend is:
- 3D CAD for Railway Modellers with Justin Newitt
- 4mm Locomotive & Kit Construction with Tony Gee & Tim Watson – almost sold out
- 7mm Locomotive & Kit Construction with Kevin Wilson – sold out
- Painting & Lining with Ian Rathbone
- Backscenes & Scenics with Paul Bambrick – sold out
- Weathering (including the return of airbrushing) with Chris Hopper & Andrew Thompson
Two new courses for Spring 2022
- Advanced Semaphore Signalling with Karl Crowther – sold out
- Structure Modelling with Jerry Clifford
We continue to investigate new courses and innovations for future weekends and are happy to receive suggestions for courses via our contact page.
Booking Status
Bookings are currently being taken for the Spring weekend. All residential places have now been sold, we do operate a waiting list of those that wish to stay at Missenden Abbey, contact us if you wish to be placed on the waiting list. Alternatively there are many options to stay locally to Great Missenden.
The semaphore signalling, backscenes & scenics and 7mm kit construction courses are now full, we have limited places for 4mm kit construction. Places are available in all other courses.
How the Weekend Works
If you are new to the Missenden Abbey Railway Modeller weekends and wish to get a flavour for what we do then why not look at one of our virtual weekends that we ran during the Covid pandemic. Included are recordings of the various live sessions that took place over the two weekends.
