Making model railways
Guides, tips, and tutorials on making and building a model railway.
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Getting crafty with track: Ballast Collection with Polymer Clay
An unconventional but cheap and effective technique for removing rogue ballast from your track...
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Improve Locomotive Running with Graphite Pencils – How and Why
Want to improve the smoothness and reliability of your trains? All it takes is a...
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Tiny Terrific Track Tweaks : how to make your track work look better
Make your model railway track look better with authentic fish plates, just take a look...
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9 Top tips to laying flexitrack
Take your track work to the next level with these flexi-track bending, joining and cutting...
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The 17 must-have tools for building a model railway
The 17 indispensable tools for making model railways...
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Signalling – Basics: Semaphore Signals
A back to basics guide on what and how semaphore signalling worked...
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Six inspiring ideas and track plans to use for small spaces
Track plans, ideas, and inspiration for model railways in small spaces - N, 009, OO...
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Incredible Model Railway Facts, Figures and World Records
Ever wondered what the fastest model train is? How about the most expensive or longest...
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A quick easy way to make curved corners for your backscene
And then I had this idea.... How to create curved frame for your layout backscene...
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