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By Chris Clifford 29th September 2023

… bearing the one-piece rudder, as its linkage to the body part is slight. Properly sharp cutters from the likes of …

By MARK CHIVERS 23rd April 2023

… for Dinorwic Quarry in North Wales in the early 1900s, No.3 (as it was when delivered) was used on the higher levels of …

21st January 2022

… Dapol adds more Class 86s Dapol has announced plans for a new batch of ‘N’ gauge Class 86 electric locomotives. Four new models are planned as … www.dapol.co.uk for more information. … Dapol adds more Class 86s …

By Chris Clifford 7th June 2023

… runners and one clear, and there’s also a separate upper body shell, photo-etched (PE) brass windscreen wipers, rubber … four suspension/wheel mount units in place on the lower body half. A change of order? You then attach the wishbones … mount) until later in the build process, after the upper body shell is attached. I mention this because the propeller …

By Mike Wild. 8th September 2023

… EOD teams. Both were designed to be air transportable and 3,000 FV101 Scorpion and more than 600 FV107 Scimitar CVR(T)s …

By MARK CHIVERS 27th April 2023

… in BR maroon (Pack 2), E96287/291/294E in BR maroon (Pack 3), TCV E96290/297/298E in BR blue and grey (Pack 4), NVX …

By PETER BROWN 31st May 2024

… watered outside the small locomotive shed at Alston, as a Class 108 waits to depart the station. The motivation for … instead that he offered to design and 3D print a ‘G5’ body to sit on a Dapol ‘M7’ chassis. The detail he achieved …

7th January 2022

… First EP for Revolution’s Class 59 Revolution Trains has taken delivery of the first … Prototype (EP) sample of its newly-tooled ‘N’ gauge Class 59 diesel (HM172) for evaluation. First introduced in … diesel locomotives to operate on BR metals, designated Class 59. Three sub-classes were built, with Class 59/0s …

27th March 2023

… both the larger tank diameter A and smaller diameter B class of tankers. Both designs are from the first batch of … constructed before the more numerous extended tank B class. For review, we received the colourful silver National Benzole silver class A anchor-mounted tank as 855. First impressions of the …

By MARK CHIVERS 6th April 2023

… Accurascale is adding an additional ‘OO’ gauge Class 37/4 Co-Co diesel to its second run of models as 37405 …

By MARK CHIVERS 14th May 2023

… Allied to the release of the all-new ‘N’ gauge Class A tank wagons, Revolution Trains has also just released … Wagon in the mid 1970s, each receiving a newly-constructed body in place of the former tank barrels and TOPS coded MTV. … Revolution Trains' new models utilise the chassis from the Class A tanks with an all-new body fitted. Detailing includes …

By MARK CHIVERS 21st April 2023

Ellis Clark Trains has revealed plans for a set of all-new ‘OO’ gauge Gresley Quad-Art carriages.

By DAN EVASON 13th September 2024

… 9mm hardwood ply (8ft x 4ft) Jewson PPSBFC09 25mm x 3.5mm Spax wood screws ScrewFix 68766 Fibre mould modelling … allows for future point motors under the board if desired. 3. I added a curved lip at the front, using some small …

29th March 2023

A new name to the Digital Command Control market is YaMoRC. MARK CHIVERS looks at this fledgling brand’s newly-released accessory decoders.

By MARK CHIVERS 18th April 2023

… ‘OO’ gauge South Eastern & Chatham Railway (SECR) ‘P’ 0-6-0T.   Seven models will form this next tranche of … Models planned include 325 in SECR lined green (Cat No. H4-P-017), 178 in SECR ‘Goods’ green (H4-P-018), 1323 in Southern Railway (SR) black (H4-P-019), 556 …