Staff Projects

The Hornby Magazine and KeyModelWorld team are always working on something new. From rolling stock to layout projects, this is your place to see the latest from our team.

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Staff Projects: Detail matters

With the long winter evenings upon us, MARK CHIVERS has been adding fresh details to his Southern Region Class 33 and 73 fleet including new numbers and etched nameplates.

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Staff Projects: Thinking ahead

Following a busy autumn season of projects MIKE WILD is already thinking about what to build next in both ‘OO’ and ‘O’ gauge.

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Staff Projects: On your marks, get set, go…

The Hornby Magazine team put on a special display of four layouts in four different gauges for the Warley National Model Railway Exhibition in 2019, but one had only just been started at the beginning of the month. MIKE WILD explains all.

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Staff Projects: The great outdoors

A house move and a bare garden were all the inspiration MIKE WILD needed to begin building one of his lifetime ambitions – a garden railway in ‘O’ gauge. In this whistle-stop introduction, he takes us behind closed doors to reveal the early stages of the project over its first 12 months.

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Staff Projects: Lighting control

A little extra detail can go a long way, especially in 7mm scale. MIKE WILD has been using the evenings to add a few finishing touches to his ‘O’ gauge ‘Western’.