PHOTO ARCHIVE

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!)

CLUB MEETING PHOTOS

Meeting

Date

Number of photos

1

30 September 1972

4

100

27 January 1990

9

155

November 1998 (braai)

0

156

23 January 1999

7

157

27 March 1999

11

158

29 May 1999  

159

31 July 1999 (25th year !)

9

160

25 September 1999

5

161

Nov 1999  

162

February 2000  

163

March 2000  

164

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

 

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

Dave Feinstein visits Cape Town 2000 Bettys Bay, Cape Town

8

Pro/Desktop photos 13/5/2000 Anthony Els's Computer

6