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Courses this Spring
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| Painting & Lining | ||
| Geoff Haynes 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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| Weathering | ||
| This Spring we will be offering both air brush and non-air brush weathering with Chris Hopper as tutor. This is a hands-on course in which modellers will weather their own stock. Throughout the weekend Chris will give demonstrations. |  |
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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 will once again be your tutor for this course. Attendees bring along their rolling stock projects to progress over the course of the weekend. |  |
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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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| 4mm Locomotive & Kit Construction | ||
| Our ever popular course catering for the construction of 4mm or smaller locomotive 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 projects. |  |
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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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| DCC Sound & Lights | |
| The course covers the choice, installation and setup of DCC (Digital Command Control) decoders from a finescale perspective in locomotives and rolling stock, with a leaning towards sound. It is aimed primarily but not exclusively towards newcomers to the DCC or DCC Sound world, who want to explore how DCC and DCC sound-equipped locos can enhance the operational realism of their railway and come away with at least one working DCC locomotive ready to go. |  |
The Spring 2024 weekend has been confirmed as running from Friday 8th to Sunday 10th of March 2024.
The preliminary list of courses we will be running in the March weekend is:
- 4mm Locomotive & Kit Construction with Tony Gee & Tim Watson
- 7mm Locomotive & Kit Construction with Kevin Wilson
- DCC Sound & Lights with Mick Moignard
- Painting & Lining with Geoff Haynes
- Backscenes & Scenics with Paul Bambrick
- Weathering with Chris Hopper
- Structure Modelling with Jerry Clifford
We continue to investigate new courses and innovations for our weekends and are happy to receive suggestions for courses via our contact page.
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.
