The photo archives is an attempt to record past events held by the JMH and models built by members. There is a plethora of photos out there in peoples cupboards/drawers waiting to be scanned and archived!
This area is divided into seven basic sections:
I take no responsibility for missing photos here. They simply were not submitted. These are taking some time to process, starting with all the show albums first. We will have a complete archive...... one day. (there are 5, 300 photo, photo albums!)
Meeting |
Date |
Number of photos |
30 September 1972 |
4 |
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27 January 1990 | 9 |
|
155 |
November 1998 (braai) | 0 |
23 January 1999 | 7 |
|
27 March 1999 | 11 |
|
158 |
29 May 1999 | |
31 July 1999 (25th year !) | 9 |
|
25 September 1999 |
5 |
|
161 |
Nov 1999 | |
162 |
February 2000 | |
163 |
March 2000 | |
19 August 2000 |
6 |
|
178 |
19 January 2003 |
16 |
179 |
29 March 2003 |
21 |
180 |
03 May 2003 |
5 |
181 |
12 July 2003 |
14 |
182 |
06 September 2003 |
7 |
183 |
24 January 2004 |
13 |
COMPETITIONS Back to Top
Description | Date | Place | Number of photos |
Charley Roth Memorial trophy competition sponsored by an anonymous donor! | 1 - 2 July 2000 | Balfour Park, 2000 Charley Roth Memorial show | 10 |
Public Building competition | 1 - 2 July 2000 | Balfour Park, 2000 Charley Roth Memorial show | 4 |
The JMH Mass Driven Competition 2003 | 30 November 2003 | Blairgowrie Recreation center |
6 |
PHOTOS OF PAST SHOWS Back to Top
Past club shows can be found here. A great record of club activities over the years!
Description | Date | Place | Number of photos |
Rand Hobbies fair - Container Depot | Late 1978 | Johannesburg | 29 |
Star Lifestyle show (JMH) | 5-14 Oct. 1990 | Nasrec, Johannesburg | 20 |
Rand Easter Show | 1994 | Nasrec, Johannesburg |
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Kylami show | 1 Sept. 1996 | Kylami | 15 |
Dutch Reformed church show | Oct. 1996 | Kensington, Johannesburg | 17 |
The Firs 1997 show | June 1997 | The Firs shopping complex, Sandton | 5 |
Charley Roth Memorial show | 1998 | The Firs, Sandton | 13 |
Charley Roth Memorial Show | 1999 | Balfour Park | 54 |
Charley Roth Memorial Show Page 1 | 2000 | Balfour Park | 50 |
Charley Roth Memorial Show Page 2 | 2000 | Balfour Park | 49 |
Charley Roth Memorial Show 2003 | 30 November 2003 | Blairgowrie Recreation Center | 23 |
ANIMATIONS : NEW ! Back to Top
While the latest and greatest of techniques was not used to create stunning full page ultra-high resolution animations, I did succeed in adding some movement to some models. Admittedly I should have used a tripod... but there is always room for improvements. Most of the animations were taken at the 2000 Charley Roth memorial show staged at Balfour park on 1 and 2 July 2000. They are in .avi format... but dont let that scare you.. it is smaller than a .gif format would EVER get. Besides... you do not need a special viewer! This particular method is suited to repetitive models. In theory, the smallest format would be a .dl file, but I do not have a driver.
Animation | Place | Date | Size (kB) |
Approximate waiting time to view (sec) using 56k modem |
Ferris wheel | Balfour Park, CRMS 2000 | 1/2 July 2000 | 251 |
30 |
Universal Joint | - |
14 July 2000 ____ | 175 |
25 |
Beam engine | Balfour Park, CRMS 2000 | 1/2 July 2000 | 185 |
20 |
Beam engine | Redone for clarity | 20 July 2000 | 478 |
+- 3 min (5 second clip) |
Band-stand | Balfour Park, CRMS 2000 | 1/2 July 2000 | 106 |
15 |
Bulldozer | Balfour Park, CRMS 2000 | 1/2 July 2000 | 122 |
18 |
The videos are known to be quite temperamental. If all you get is a multi-lined blur, save the video to your hard-drive and attempt to play it with mplayer.exe. I suspect this has something to do with different versions of the "Indeo" driver and directx.
NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS OF THE CLUB AND MEMBERS Back to Top
These are by no means all of the clippings that have been published, merely the only ones I have. Please submit! They also tend to be large in size, so be prepared to wait!
Description |
Newspaper | Date |
Charley Roth's giant mobile crane. | The Star | 4 September 1974 |
Rand hobbies show | Die Transvaler | 26 September 1974 |
The late Charley Roth and his locomotive. | The Star | 22 November 1989 |
The late Charley Roth and his locomotive. | People magazine | 1989 |
FAVORITE MEMBERS MODELS Back to Top
This part of the site is to display (and perhaps describe) models that members have built that mean something to you and haven't really appeared at shows or meetings. If you have a stack of photos of memorable models that you took (at home for example) that no-one has really seen, please submit your favorite ones for the site. Models in progress will be acceptable as long as there are pictures with descriptions. Realize that photos are the substance behind this web site since they are easily displayed and processing is one-off. Any submissions (members only please) can be either given (photos, CD, stiffy) or emailed to the web master. I know that some photo developing centers now offer scanning of images from negatives, which is ideal. 640 x 480 Resolution and above is acceptable. If your name is not here, do something about it and submit some photos.
Member | Description | Date | Number of photos |
Tony Gane | Misc. Models | 2 | |
Dave Heathcote | Misc. Models | 5 | |
Fred Konig | Misc. Models | 1 |
MISCELLANEOUS/OTHER PHOTOS Back to Top
Description | Date | Place | Number of photographs |
Dave visits Cape Town | 24/2/1998 | Bettys Bay, Cape Town | 18 |
Sandton Eiffel tower pictures | 3/4/1999 | Sandton Square | 2 |
Dave Feinstein visits Cape Town | 2000 | Bettys Bay, Cape Town | 8 |
Pro/Desktop photos | 13/5/2000 | Anthony Els's Computer | 6 |