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Category: Modelling

The Great Central Railway Model Event 2020 is cancelled

16th March 2020 Shannon Butcher Modelling, News

The Great Central Railway Model Event will not be going ahead this year due to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.

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Modelling basics: A decision on size

12th March 2020 Shannon Butcher Features, Modelling

Model railways, as the name implies, are based on small-scale representations of the real thing, so the choice for new modellers is the actual model’s scale.

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VIDEO: Hornby Margate open weekend

25th September 2019 Gareth Evans Modelling, Steam, Video

There were smiles all-round in a corner of Margate over the weekend of August 17-18 as the doors were opened to Hornby’s spiritual home.

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VIDEO: Unboxing Hornby’s Harry Potter modelling collection

13th August 2019 Sam Hewitt Features, Modelling, Reviews, Video

Harry Potter continues to captivate one generation after another and now Hornby has created its own little piece of magic for fans.

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Rare shunter ‘haulage’ at Nene Valley June 1-2 model weekend

8th May 2019 Gareth Evans Diesel, Industrial, Modelling, News

Visitors to the Nene Valley Railway’s June 1-2 model railway weekend will be able to ride behind former London Underground Sentinel 0-6-0 DL83.

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Unboxing of Hornby’s King George VI and Duchess of Hamilton

4th March 2019 Andy Hill Features, Modelling, Reviews, Video

Here’s the latest unboxing of Hornby’s LMS Princess Class Locomotives, the Duchess of Hamilton and King George VI.

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Hornby hits the reset button

18th January 2019 Sarah Wilkinson Modelling

SIMON Kohler’s return to Hornby marks the end of an unstable period in Hornby’s recent history and with it comes a distinct change in strategy which encompasses the best of Hornby tradition and practices which

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Accurascale announces ‘OO’ gauge super-detail ‘Deltic’ range

28th December 2018 Sarah Wilkinson Modelling

DURING the first morning of the Warley National Model Railway Exhibition in November, the covers were whipped off a small display case by Accurascale’s marketing manager Fran Burke to reveal the biggest surprise of the

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Colas Rail ‘70s’

20th August 2018 Sarah Wilkinson Modelling

THE new year had just begun when Nos. 70803 and 70805 were unloaded from the Atlantic Concert at Seaforth Docks, Merseyside, on January 4, 2014, following their month-long journey from the General Electric factory in

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Heljan surprises with new ‘25’

14th August 2018 Sarah Wilkinson Modelling

THE competition to produce the definitive re-creation of the BR/Sulzer Type 2s in ‘OO’ gauge took a further twist at the beginning of July, with Heljan joining Bachmann and Sutton’s Locomotive Works (SLW) in coveting

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