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An Appreciation of Kitmaster and Airfix Railway Kits
By Stephen Knight
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This is the title of what is the definitive work for the Kitmaster and Airfix, railway kit and rolling stock
modeler. To give you a flavour of what you can expect from this very detailed and comprehensive work, I can give you a sneak preview at the table of contents.
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"Let's Stick
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112 pp hardback with 21 colour pages, published at £13.95in 1999 is now OUT OF PRINT.
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IRWELL PRESS
59A, High Street
Clophill
Bedfordshire
MK45 4BE
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Here is what you are missing:
The Contents list
Preface and Acknowledgements
An Introduction To Rosebud Kitmaster
Chapter 1 - The Rosebud Kitmaster Story
Who Were Rosebud?
The Raunds Site
The Kitmaster Concept
Table A: Design Groups of Kitmaster Railway Vehicles
Table B: (1) Kits illustrated by Ken Rush
Chapter 2 - The Models in Detail
1 BR Mk1 Coaches
Table B (2) : BR Standard Coach Codes
2 Midland Pullman Cars
Table C : BTC Type Designation and Allocation of Pullman vehicles
Table D : General Arrangement of Vehicles
3 Presentation Sets
4 The Prototype Deltic
5 The Rebuilt Royal Scot
6 The Battle of Britain
7 The Ariel Arrow Super Sports Model
8 The Motorised Bogies KM1 & KM2
9 The 350HP Diesel Shunter
Table E : BR Type Designations
Table F : The models available
10 The Standard Class 4MT Mogul
11 The Continental Prototypes
No. 3 Early American General
No. 8 Italian Tank
No.12 Swiss Crocodile
No.19 Baureihe 23 (German)
No.23 241P Mountain (French)
No.27 DB B4yge Coach
No.29 SNCF A9 myfi Coach
No.34 New York Central Hudson
No.37 CN U-4-A
12 The British Railways Standard Class 9F 2-10-0 "Evening Star"
Table G: British Model Manufacturers' Standard locomotive designs
13 The Ex-L.M.S. Beyer-Garratt 2-6-0+0-6-2
Chapter 3 - Rise and Fall-the Airfix Reintroductions
Airfix Rolling Stock
Table J: Engineering Tool Changes
Diagram 1 : Example Tool Change
The Models In Detail
12 R201 - The Railbus
13 Airfix Trackside Kits
Table K: The Airfix Trackside Range
Chapter 4 - Rumours and Postulations
Chapter 5 - Collaborations
Nabisco and the Hermes Supply Company
The Humbrol Connection
Table H: Humbrol/Kitmaster joint advertising
PECO Interiors
Chapter 6 - Chassis and Motorising Kits
Motorisation Kits
[A] Arby Perfecta Kits
Table I: Arby Perfecta Kits
[B] N and KC Keyser
[C] SMRS
Chassis Kits
Chapter 7 - The Compendium
INTRODUCTION and NOTES
Table [a] :Plastic Colours
Table [b] :Box Types and Dimensions
Table [c] :Printing colours of Kitmaster Boxes
Table [d] :Registered Design Applications
Table [e] :Instruction Sheet Formats
THE COMPENDIUM
Table One :Production Details
Table Two :Release Dates and Prices
Table Three :Press Coverage
Table Four :Names and Numbers
Table Five :Airfix Reintroductions
Table Six :Rosebud Kitmaster Media Campaign
:Official Rosebud Kitmaster Advertisements
Kitmaster Publications
Retail and Dealer catalogues
Colour Charts
Colour Card
Collecting Kitmaster Models
Notes for Collectors
Valuing Your Models
Kitmaster and Airfix in Colour
Appendices
Appendix 1 Index to model railway journal entries
Appendix 2 A short chronology of Rosebud Bibliography
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