Hornby Magazine  |   August 2020
Welcome to the August 2020 issue of Hornby Magazine - our Summer Special which features our pick of the best model railway layouts featured in the magazine over the past 158 issues, an exclusive competition to win a new Hornby ‘OO’ gauge ‘Prairie’ and much more.
Highlights include full reviews of the new Bachmann Class 117, Hornby ‘61XX’ and Sutton’s Locomotive Works Class 24 for ‘OO’ gauge as well as Graham Farish’s new Thompson carriages for ’N’ gauge. We also join the Scunthorpe Modern Image Group for a tour of its ’N’ gauge exhibition layout Neely and visit Orpington and District MRS’ multi-gauge 7mm scale layout Theobald’s Yard.
Modelling guides cover weathering with washes, making streams, building a laser cut signal box kit and installing sound and digital lighting into the London Transport Museum S Stock. All this and more awaits in the latest issue of Hornby Magazine. Don’t miss it!
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Hornby Magazine August 2020.