Welcome

A mix of emotions greeted me as I

…and finally

Unusual scenes captured by the lens of Chris

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“Model Rail magazine’s ethos is to encourage modellers

Shunting in a shed

We visit Andrew Dyke and his large Welsh colliery layout, spread over two dedicated railway rooms

Present your case

If there’s a prototype that you think needs to be offered ready-to-run, here’s the place to voice your opinion…

Behind the Backscene

Model Rail’s founding father Chris Leigh has a fear of spiral staircases and dreams of building a 4mm scale train ferry

The Big Picture

The latest happenings from the world of model railways

MAUNSELL ‘D1’ NEXT FROM RAILS OF SHEFFIELD

00 GAUGE Following the success of the Wainwright

DAPOL’S GM REACHES ENGINEERING PROTOTYPE STAGE

Dapol has shared images of the first engineering

JONES GOODS AND MORE FROM RAPIDO

00 GAUGE Designed for the Highland Railway, David

BR FERRY VANS FROM RAPIDO

Inspired by European practice, BR designed a fleet

‘TOAD’ READY TO ORDER

00 GAUGE Produced as part of Rapido’s The

‘HEATON LODGE’ HEADS TO BATH

In April, the Royal Bath & Wells Showground

ACCURASCALE TO OFFER CLASS 31 IN ‘OO’

00 GAUGE In a surprise announcement, Accurascale revealed

HELJAN ANNOUNCES RTR NORTH BRITISH DIESEL PROTOTYPE 10800

Heljan announced its intention to recreate one of

BACHMANN AND LOCOMOTION LAUNCH EXCLUSIVE CLASS 90

Announced on the first day of the Model

REVOLUTION TO TACKLE ‘CORADIA’ AND ‘ADELANTE’ DMUS – IN ‘N’ & ‘OO’!

As George mentioned in MR296’s editorial, the Class

MORE NUCLEAR FUN FROM REVOLUTION

Revolution Trains has also been busy developing another

INVERNESS CLASS 26 DUO FOR ‘OO’

When Heljan announced a Class 26 in ‘O’

In Brief

CLAYTON ‘DHP1’ REACHES EP STAGE KR Models has

STANIER 4-6-0 MOVES FORWARD

Ellis Clark Trains has revealed images of the

BODMIN & DISTRICT MRC CELEBRATES 30 YEARS

This year marks the Bodmin & District MRC’s

In Brief

FINESCALE SOCIETY CUTS MEMBER FEES The Scalefour Society

BUILDING SITE ESSENTIALS

00 GAUGE We received a bumper pack of

FAMOUS FOLKS IN MINIATURE

00 GAUGE Well known characters from history have

Modeller’s Bookshelf

A selection of titles that have kept the Model Rail team occupied recently

ON THE WORKBENCH

George Dent looks at the new products to land on his workbench this month

TASTY TOMBSTONES

These packs of laser-cut gravestones provide 58 different

POTTED PLANTS AND WINDOW BOXES

These potted plants and window boxes are ideal

LIGHT AND VISION

The Modelmaker LED Head Magnifier comes with five

Getting on track

George Dent has been busy laying track, wiring and building platforms on his new layout. He’s also found time to finish off another diorama too!

Show & Tell

The place to share your projects with the Model Rail community

Inside track with Ben Ando

Ben Ando is the founder of Revolution Trains and a regular contributor to Model Rail.

Family connection

Ancestral links to the Derby area led Kevin Smith to model a Great Nor thern branch station, and doing it in ‘N’ gave him the freedom to model a three-quar ter mile stretch

MAID of all works

Looking at railways in detail

27 STEPS TO A BETTER ‘J27’

George Dent lavishes a few hours’ worth of attention onto Oxford Rail’s LNER ‘J27’, adding extra details and giving it a more appropriate work-worn finish

Fill your boots

Neil Woodbine and Sue Farmer proved that with a lit tle imagination it’s possible to build a layout to suit an eclec tic mix of stock

LIGHT fantastic

Track plans to get you thinking in three dimensions

BUILD BADGER’S DEAN COLLIERY PART TWO

HOW TO

MAKE A GWR WATER TANK

Like many of his projects in the past, Chris Leigh’s ‘N’ gauge Staines West layout languished incomplete, stalled by a minor issue which he needed to resolve…

WEATHER NARROW GAUGE WAGONS

Sculptor Steve Bearpark decided to dip his toes into railway modelling. Here, he reveals how he created some ultra-realistic weathering effects on timber-bodied rolling stock

BUILD AN ARMOURED TRAIN

Inspired by the young Winston Churchill’s exploits in South Africa, Alan Rowlands adapted some Hornby and Lima models to recreate an armoured train for the Boer War period

GIVE WOOD COMPONENTS A TIMEWORN APPEARANCE

This is where our team of experienced modellers

KNOW YOUR… LIVERIES

PART 7: Early Modern Traction

DAVE LOWERY’S TOP TIPS

OVER THE FENCE Very lucky am I, in

ADD A MATT FINISH TO SHINY UNREALISTIC PEOPLE

Q Why do so many pre-painted figures appear

FIX FIGURES TO THE LAYOUT

Q What’s the best glue for fixing figures

INSTALL REMOVABLE SIGNS

Q I want to add signs to my

Rails/Bachmann McIntosh Class 8 12

◆ GAUGE ‘OO’ ◆ MODEL Rails

Oxford Rail Great Eastern/LNER 10t vans

" The various plank, rivet and door details

Ox ford Rail ‘Pilchard’ ballast / sleeper wagon

◆ GAUGE ‘OO’ ◆ MODEL Oxford

Revolution Trains IWA ‘Holdall’ wagons

" Below the frames, the distinctive bogies look

Revolution Trains IWA ‘Holdall’ wagons

◆ GAUGE ‘N’ ◆ MODEL Revolution

Bachmann VEA van

◆ GAUGE ‘OO’ ◆ MODEL Bachmann