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Georges PRUNIERES (1929 - 1999) 1CC1 of 1927 Mechanical parts Marklin Georges Prunières worked as a night cab driver, which allowed him to devote the necessary time to his passion: model making. Initially taking aviation as his subject, he then turned to the world of railroading in 1971. Fascinated by the metal models of the 50s and 60s (bronze or zamac), it is quite natural that he chose not to paint his creations: "I find that the metal models have more cachet," he said in 1981 in the magazine La vie du rail (n°1787, April 2, 1981, p.39), "on the other hand, one can better admire the details and evaluate the work that they required. And hours of work he was able to provide, he who knew how to handle saws, files, drills, dentist's wheels and other tools to instill realism in his models. His documentation came from magazines and from an album of photographs and technical charts. "The rest is a simple work of adaptation, of calculation of ribs. [On the metal] I transfer the dimensions of the brass plates that must then be cut. The different parts are then added, soldered with tin on the base frame. Some of the details are very clever: for example, the air vents are simple desk staples. At the same time, he uses bronze casting to obtain several prints of parts from a master model. Georges Prunières exhibited his creations at the Bastille, at the NIT, at Exporail, at Metz; he was even selected for the Adolphe Lafont grants for manual feats.
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Georges PRUNIERES (1929 - 1999) 1CC1 of 1927 Mechanical parts Marklin Georges Prunières worked as a night cab driver, which allowed him to devote the necessary time to his passion: model making. Initially taking aviation as his subject, he then turned to the world of railroading in 1971. Fascinated by the metal models of the 50s and 60s (bronze or zamac), it is quite natural that he chose not to paint his creations: "I find that the metal models have more cachet," he said in 1981 in the magazine La vie du rail (n°1787, April 2, 1981, p.39), "on the other hand, one can better admire the details and evaluate the work that they required. And hours of work he was able to provide, he who knew how to handle saws, files, drills, dentist's wheels and other tools to instill realism in his models. His documentation came from magazines and from an album of photographs and technical charts. "The rest is a simple work of adaptation, of calculation of ribs. [On the metal] I transfer the dimensions of the brass plates that must then be cut. The different parts are then added, soldered with tin on the base frame. Some of the details are very clever: for example, the air vents are simple desk staples. At the same time, he uses bronze casting to obtain several prints of parts from a master model. Georges Prunières exhibited his creations at the Bastille, at the NIT, at Exporail, at Metz; he was even selected for the Adolphe Lafont grants for manual feats.
