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Robert Hoag

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Oct 12, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/12/98
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Was just wondering if any one remembers Allan Armitage from the '60's.
He had several of the first articles published on working with styrene
plastic in Model Railroader and worked for Revel in LA, designing most
of the HO structure kits at that time. I recognized some of these kits
being sold by Con-Cor now. I would like to know if any one has access to
these early articles, or knows what became of Allan? Thanks,
Rob


David Heine

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Oct 12, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/12/98
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Until the May/June 1998 issue, he had a column, "Modelmakers Notebook" in
the Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette. In the May/June issue he said that
he ran out of things to write about. Most of his columns included plans
that he drew.

Dave Heine


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REckerfiel

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Oct 13, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/13/98
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Al Armitage has been writing regularly for the NG&SL Gazette; he announced his
retirement in the second last edition. He is a true master modelbuilder - I
can attest to that, as I have a few of the styrene structures he scratch built
in the 1960's. You can probably reach him via the Gazette.
Bob E.

jmckee

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Oct 13, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/13/98
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Robert Hoag wrote:
>
> Was just wondering if any one remembers Allan Armitage from the '60's.
> He had several of the first articles published on working with styrene
> plastic in Model Railroader and worked for Revel in LA, designing most
> of the HO structure kits at that time. I recognized some of these kits
> being sold by Con-Cor now. I would like to know if any one has access to
> these early articles, or knows what became of Allan? Thanks,
> Rob

Yes i know what became of Allen, he has been writing a column for The
Narrow Gauge and Shortline Gazette for the last several years. It is
called "The Model Makers Notebook" and featured all kinds of models,
including locos, trucks, ships, buildings, bridges, a logging flume etc.
I got the impression that there was nothing that Allen couldn't recreate
in miniature. The Gazette comes out bi-monthly and just recently Allen
retired from writing his column. It was always an interesting column and
featured great plans and models.

Jeff Scherb

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Oct 13, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/13/98
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You'll find a list of his articles at:

http://www.accurail.com/cgi-bin/tmcgi.exe?opt=S&cmdtext=armitage

jeff

unrl...@ix.netcom.com

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Oct 13, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/13/98
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A number of Al Armitage plans (in HO and O scale) are available from the
Underground Railway Press. The catalog is $2.00. Send to:

The Underground Railway Press
PO Box 11279
Burke, VA 22009-1279

LarRedPX

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Oct 13, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/13/98
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More on Alan Armitage. If you will contact the NMRA Library, at
crudd...@aol.com, and ask about Armitage articles, they should be able to
provide a listing of articles and issues. There is no charge for the service,
but they might ask for you to join the NMRA. As has been said, Alan has
pprobably run out of stuff to write about, bt his old articles are still a
great source of information for the scratch builder. Signed: Larry Redmond,
NMRA Trustee

Art Fahie

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Oct 13, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/13/98
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Al is living on the west coast (I think Washington) and is disabled due to an
accident on a "real" railroad. (Al, I believe, was more than just a "model"
railroader. I believe he is "wheelchair" bound, but I spoke with him last year
and he seems in good spirits.

Art Fahie

Robert Hoag

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Oct 15, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/15/98
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I'm having some difficulity getting a message to reply to the group, I
posted
this as a new message with the same subject, Allan Armitage, to get it
to
post, hope this works, what am I doing wrong?
.
Thanks everyone for the info. I just ordered a two part article from the

Nov & Dec 1959 MR titled, "A Case for Styrene." (boy does that date
me!) I remembered the article from when I was a kid, I was so impressed

with his work and it was the first article I had seen on using styrene
for model
making. I was living in Santa Monica, Cal. at the time, and Allan was
working at
Ravel. I went and visited him at Ravel and was very empressed with his
work,
and yes he was in a wheel chair back then, I never asked him why though.
He
is one of the finest scratch builders I have seen, but I have been out
of this
field
for the last 30 years so have probably missed a lot of other modelers
great
work<g> I was also curious why Ravel got out of the model structures,
they
had some of the best ones, I thought. I noticed that Con-Cor is now
selling some
of these early Ravel kits.
Rob Hoag


David A Kingston

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Oct 18, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/18/98
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Robert Hoag (rh...@fptoday.com) wrote:
: Was just wondering if any one remembers Allan Armitage from the '60's.

--
I do't know what happened to A. A. but I was stationed at N.A.S.Lemoore CA
from 1969 to 1970 and remember visiting him and seeing his work "right up
close", it was impressive.

73's de Dave


David A Kingston
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tonysl...@gmail.com

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Dec 26, 2014, 12:11:10 AM12/26/14
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On Monday, October 12, 1998 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Robert Hoag wrote:
> Was just wondering if any one remembers Allan Armitage from the '60's.
> He had several of the first articles published on working with styrene
> plastic in Model Railroader and worked for Revel in LA, designing most
> of the HO structure kits at that time. I recognized some of these kits
> being sold by Con-Cor now. I would like to know if any one has access to
> these early articles, or knows what became of Allan? Thanks,
> Rob

Armitage began modeling and drawing plans, if I remember correctly, to earn a living, after some sort of disability situation. He was big on the advantages of styrene.
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