Modelling

  • What’s in the Shops: Cavalex Models aims high with Redland PGA wagon debut

    What’s in the Shops: Cavalex Models aims high with Redland PGA wagon debut

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    A well-detailed OO-gauge Redland PGA aggregate hopper wagon has given the brand new Cavalex Models range a flying start, writes Nigel Burkin. Cavalex Models, a new name in diesel and electric modelling in OO and N gauges, has a number of wagon models in development that have never been produced in any scale as ready-to-run…

  • What’s in the Shops: Triple-pack treats from Accurascale

    What’s in the Shops: Triple-pack treats from Accurascale

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    Nigel Burkin reviews Accurascale’s triple-pack TOPS ‘HUO’ and NCB internal-user OO-scale HOP24 wagons. New packs of the widely acclaimed Accurascale BR HOP24 hopper wagons were released last November, providing 1970s and 1980s modellers with TOPS coded versions of the wagons. Each of the six packs has three individually numbered wagons in unfitted grey livery with…

  • What’s in the Shops: A wonderful Holmes J36 from Hornby

    What’s in the Shops: A wonderful Holmes J36 from Hornby

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    Nigel Burkin is suitably impressed by a superbly well-detailed OO-scale model of a much-loved North British Railway locomotive design. There is something very attractive about small tender engines to modellers, and Hornby’s new LNER J36 0-6-0 is already proving popular. Designed under the auspices of North British Railway locomotive superintendent Matthew Holmes, the J36s were…

  • Brrr! It’s cold out there!

    Brrr! It’s cold out there!

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    During the recent cold snap, reader Yan Leach sent us these photos of his fictional Scottish wintry model railway layout, ‘Kilbreck/Inverdun’ which he built using Scenic Snowflakes and Shovelled Snow products from Deluxe Materials. After first applying the same company’s Scenic Spray Glue, he scattered the Scenic Snowflakes over the scene before re-covering it with…

  • 90th anniversary attractions at Bekonscot Model Village

    90th anniversary attractions at Bekonscot Model Village

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    In August, the Bekonscot Model Village in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, will be celebrating 90 years since Mr Roland Callingham welcomed the first visitors to the model village and railway that he built in his garden. The model village opened its doors for the 2019 season on February 16, and Beconscot New Town, with its funicular railway…

  • Strictly-to-order OO-scale APT coming from DJ Models

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    A super-detailed Advanced Passenger Train in the offing from DJ Models Ltd will be the longest OO-gauge set ever produced at 14 cars and 14ft 6in long – and the accompanying 3D CAD/CAM images capture the attention to detail that will even encompass the correct tartan pattern for the seats. This will be a one-off…

  • Model engineering excellence at big Alexandra Palace exhibition

    Model engineering excellence at big Alexandra Palace exhibition

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    Visitors from far and wide flocked to Alexandra Palace from January 18-20 to attend the 23rd annual London Model Engineering Exhibition. With more than 2000 models on show, the whole spectrum of model engineering was covered, from steam locomotives, traction engines and ships to modern remote-controlled models including trucks and aircraft. Showgoers could travel between…

  • Bachmann’s £3709.90 ‘thank you’ in memory of a much-loved colleague

    Bachmann’s £3709.90 ‘thank you’ in memory of a much-loved colleague

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    Bachmann Europe presented a cheque for £3709.90 to the Leicestershire-based charity Loros at its Glenfield headquarters on Friday, January 25. In 2018, a model of Class 37 diesel-electric locomotive Merl Evans 1947-2016, which fittingly carries the number 37099, was released as part of Bachmann’s Branchline range of OO-scale models, and it is sales of that…

  • New-build ‘Patriot’ will put right a huge wrong

    New-build ‘Patriot’ will put right a huge wrong

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    With fond memories of the unrebuilt parallel-boiler ‘Patriot’ 4-6-0s from 60 years ago, Pete Kelly looks forward to both the completion of The LMS-Patriot Project’s new-build main line locomotive No. 5551 The Unknown Warrior and the forthcoming Bachmann Branchline model of the same national memorial engine.  Dressed in LMS crimson lake livery, Bachmann Branchline’s forthcoming…

  • Have you thought about 009?

    Have you thought about 009?

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    Imagine modelling a narrow-gauge Welsh slate quarry, or perhaps the Welsh Highland or Lynton & Barnstaple Railway, past or present. Such projects are becoming possible for many more modellers with the recent resurgence of ready-to-run 009-scale locomotives and rolling stock, writes Pete Kelly.    Now and again, it’s inevitable that some modellers will grow tired…

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