How-To Guides and Tutorials

If you need to fill an odd corner of your layout, or simply want to create a diorama to show off your local authority vehicles, then a Council Depot could just be the project you're looking for.  These can be any size, and more importantly, can...

Down here in sunny, tropical Cornwall, we're lucky to be close to the city of Truro. Since 1974, Truro has entered the Britain in Bloom competition, and over the years has won numerous prizes, including the Champion of Champions in 2018.

Adding people to a model railway layout is one of the most effective ways of introducing ‘life’ to the scene. Locomotives and coaches look so much better with little figures on the footplate, in the driving cab or sat staring from the windows. Platforms...

A builder's yard is a great way to fill a spare corner of a layout. Regardless of the era or location you're modelling, builder's merchants have been around for a long time, and are always full of the bits and pieces used in construction. From pallets...

Did you know, that farmland makes up over 70% of the UK's land area? That's a huge amount of our comparatively small island that's taken up by farmland. There are actually over 192,000 farms in the UK. Of those, 50% are under 50 acres, many being family-run....