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Reviews
A stable aid to let you keep modelling when your hands shake
If tremors and shakes are keeping you away from your model making, this handy accessory will be a game changer for your modelling. [...]
Fixing a train that stops and starts, how to clean locomotive wheels
You've found it. Abandoned in your childhood, a long forgotten Hornby loco has been rediscovered. A childhood memory reborn. You dust it off and plant it on [...]
A handy modelling tool
If only I had more fingers.
That’s something almost every modeller has uttered at one point or another.
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Review Märklin 81701 Z Gauge Train Starter Set
It’s happened again and I was powerless to resist. [...]
The best aid to help see when your eyesight fades
It happens to us all. Some sooner, some later. But it happens. [...]
Dremel 3000 review – the best model making tool?
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 [...]
2018 Review: LEGO City High-Speed Passenger Train 60051
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 [...]
Train Books For Children This Christmas
If you know or have a train obsessed child, these delightful train books for children are just the thing for a bit of Christmas bedtime story reading and with [...]
Review: British Steam BR Standard Locomotives
There are lots of books on steam trains that have promise for railway modellers but this one has real potential. [...]
National Garden Railway Show Exhibition 2015 Review
Model railways aren't just indoors, there's also the the outdoor / garden variety. On Saturday 11th April, the 2015 National Garden Railway exhibition took [...]
Hornby, Peco or Gaugemaster Track Pins | Which Should You Use?
What's the difference between one track pin and another? You wouldn't think much, but there are important variations between the pins from Peco, Hornby [...]
