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Reviews

Model making tools, accessories, paints and glues and model trains tried, tested and reviewed by a lifelong modeller. No incentives, payment or gifts were exchanged for the reviews with all products were purchased at normal prices.

Best stripping tool for bus wiring

  September 24, 2020
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best wire stripper
The easiest, fastest and best way to cut and strip wires for electrical work. [...]

Best Ballast Spreader for N, OO and HO track in 2020

  October 29, 2019
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Best N Gauge Ballast Spreader
Ballast transforms your railway from a train set to model railway but it's time consuming, fiddly and slow to lay. No more with this brilliant little ballast [...]

Masters Brush Cleaner, review

  February 24, 2019
  4 Comments
If you do a lot of painting you'll undoubtedly go through a lot of brushes. I did. But not any more. [...]

A rotating tool holder, it’s not what you might expect

  January 13, 2019
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rotating model tool and paint holder
Is your workbench a mess, with tools, paints and glues scattered around? Looking for an organiser? I was and have found what could be the perfect rotating [...]

A stable aid to let you keep modelling when your hands shake

  July 22, 2018
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arm rest help model making and model trains-small
If tremors and shakes are keeping you away from your model making, this handy accessory will be a game changer for your modelling. [...]

Review Märklin 81701 Z Gauge Train Starter Set

  December 20, 2017
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marklin review z gauge
It’s happened again and I was powerless to resist. [...]

The best head magnifier

  October 27, 2017
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fancii head magnifier
It happens to us all. Some sooner, some later. But it happens. [...]

Textured Rolling Pins – Useful for UK Model Railways?

  September 12, 2017
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Green Stuff World's textured rolling pins are a huge time saver for modelling stone and brick work in military modelling but can they be used for UK model [...]

Dremel 3000 review – the best model making tool in 2020

  May 30, 2016
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Dremel 3000 model railway
I'm a long time fan of Dremel's versatile rotary tools and the Dremel 3000 is one of my favourite tools — no make that my number one most used model making [...]

2020 Review: LEGO City High-Speed Passenger Train 60051

  December 27, 2015
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While adult model train enthusiasts tend to focus on railways from Hornby, and the like and younger fans attention is drawn to Thomas and Brio, there's another [...]

Review: British Steam BR Standard Locomotives

  October 20, 2015
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There are lots of books on steam trains that have promise for railway modellers but this one has real potential. [...]
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