Model of the Month

By Graham Speechley Talyllyn coach No. 4 was built from a "Perfect World" kit during winter 2016/17. Basically the kit comprises the ends, lower sides, bottom, roof, and several bags of precision cut hardwood sticks, all carefully numbered. Waterproof PVA was used throughout, except for fixing the glazing where liquid poly glue was used. [...]

By John Ely This winter I have been busy building L&B buildings for my garden railway. I have come up with a method that is reasonably quick, and I thought it might be worthwhile to share it with you. My trusted copy of “The L&B measured and Drawn" (by Stephen D. Phillips in conjunction with [...]

By Martin Haywood Having been hankering for a Simplex of some kind for a while, my intrigue as to the quality of 3D printed models, and an impending 16mm WWI military event, seemed a good opportunity to obtain one. For those who rejoice in round numbers, this project coincided with the 100 year anniversary of [...]

By Chris Trotman Having built a meths and a gas fired loco the next progression was, I thought, a coal fired loco. Believe it or not I started the frames in 2009 from side, front and plan orthographic drawings enlarged to 16mm scale. It has taken another seven years to build Russell and this is [...]

By Martin Leaver Having a particular interest in the Colonel Stephens railways, it became essential to find a way of producing corrugated iron in our scale, as his buildings were made of little else. I now produce it in large quantities, made from aluminium beer cans, for myself and other modellers. I started corrugating about [...]

By Richard Huss “Wilberforce” was the first – and so far the only – steam loco purchased new for the Elmdon Heath Light Railway, where it works alongside a Wrightscale “Wren”, and the rather fantastical vertical-boilered tram loco I described in December 2015. It’s an example of the well-known “Millie” class: popular, reliable, docile – [...]

By Brian Dominic Harecroft is one of the new suppliers of kits at the less expensive end of the market – as laser cutters and 3D printers have come down in price, it’s become possible to produce kits almost in a home workshop environment. This particular enterprise is run by Matt Nunn, who has been [...]

by Nick Godfrey I had already built a dock - albeit with concrete painted water - and a canal barge from scratch. But a new extension and dock have since been built, with real water. What was needed now was a barge that would float. The first, scratchbuilt barge, carrying general goods, seen at [...]

By Frans van Cuilenborg I just finished my Billy built with the 4 kits from Roundhouse. All in all it is a kit not so difficult a kit and I will recommend it both to newcomers (as I was) and more advanced builders, because it is a very nice loco and it behaves very well. [...]

By Mike Barton The basis for this model started when I purchased some second-hand Accucraft rolling stock. This had been converted to run on 32mm gauge, which suited my line, but the 45mm wheelsets for the rolling stock also came with it. Many of the members of my local area group have 45mm gauge lines [...]