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Inside track with Ben Ando
Ben Ando is the founder of Revolution Trains and a regular contributor to Model Rail.
As the hobby has grown modellers have demanded variety – but they also want low prices
Rapido has just announced a second batch of Hunslet 16in locomotives, offering a greater variety of liveries, albeit in limited quantities.
If you read the letters pages of magazines, or internet forums, or even the Facebook pages of model railway manufacturers or enthusiast groups, it won’t be long before you come across a post bemoaning the lack of availability of model ‘X’.