Model of the Month

By Brian Dominic The varnished Jurassic wagon. When you get into cheap ‘n cheerful modelling, you tend to look very carefully at the cheaper rolling stock kits: you wouldn’t really want to have a wagon in a rake that’s cost more than the loco! You sometimes have to look very carefully and wander down some [...]

By Michael Leckenby Caradoc of the NHLR posing on the completed 'Banwy Bridge'. Clearly some toning down of the timber and metalwork is required. “I’d like a deck plate girder bridge but can you make it an approximation of the W&L Banwy Bridge?” That’s how it started. The vast majority of the bridges I build [...]

By TAC Foley Although the WHR has at least five, maybe more of these ex-SAR ballast wagons in service, as yet there is no mass-produced 16mm scale model, although the teeny scales seem to be well-catered-for. Lacking anything at all in our scale, I decided to scratch-build my own version of the composite riveted/welded wagon [...]

By Andrew McMahon A Wrightscale kit of a Péchot crane, with two Péchot bogies converted to match trucks, in a peacetime role working with the track maintenance team on the CLR. Close up of Péchot crane The crane and match trucks assisting with lineside maintenance on the CLR. It is a hot day so not [...]

By Andrew Mawer One of Andrew's Hudson-style ammunition wagons is seen here with WDLR Simplex and Baguley locos. One of my areas of interest in 16mm scale is military railways, and so when I first ordered a white metal Hudson Rugga chassis (with brake) from IP Engineering, it was destined to become a decent representation [...]

By Stephen Howard (Hambleden Valley Railway) STEPHEN HOWARD describes his scratchbuilt radio controlled locomotive. Real coal in the bunker and a couple of repainted LGB drivers complete the details. The loco was spayed in satin black obtained from a car accessory shop, with matt black for the smokebox, chimney and cab roof. All the stock [...]

by Nick Hunt Above: The finished snowplough wagon on the Nonsuch Light Railway. The rocks in the wagon act as ballast to help the wagon stay on track as it ploughs aside the snow. In the darkling days of autumn a few years ago, the staff of the Engineering Department of the Nonsuch Light Railway [...]

by Peter Richards This is a short rake of Brandbright coach kits that were a Christmas present from my wife three Christmases ago. They were constructed during 2012 with the outsides spray painted before assembly and the insides treated to the traditional camel-hair brush! The couplings are Accucraft as in recent years I've been changing [...]

By John Ely In this Model of the Month John Ely builds a rather fine electrically powered kit of the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway's Yeo... Yeo at Parbrook Introduction My layout, the Gravelye and Westlands Railway runs a regular service and "electrics" tend to see more use than steam for those odd few minutes I [...]

By Brian Dominic In this Model of the Month Brian Dominic builds a simple guards van with added modifications... Introduction For Flagg Fluorspar, I'd identified a need for some noise on the railway. I've already got a welder, but the trains themselves need to be able to make a noise when they were operating, so [...]