How-To Guides and Tutorials

Bring your model railway layout to life with a vibrant market scene!

We're planning more of our ‘Let's Make A Scene’ series of posts, to help with those finishing touches to your layout or diorama. As well as listing the parts used, we'll be writing individual blogs on how we make each one.

Vegetation is everywhere, from roadside verges to manicured (or not ) gardens, to platform flower beds.

Will a layout really fit on a 6ft by 4ft board? Read here to find out if this traditional board size is still suitable for today's models.

Static grass is your secret weapon when it comes to creating Realistically Better scenery for your model railway landscape. Find out how you can use it to great effect on your layout.