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Building A Shed & Garden Scene in O Gauge
Klaire's been getting all creative at SMS HQ this week building this lovely diorama to showcase our newly released LX154 Garden Shed kit in O gauge. And the keen-eyed among you will notice that she's thrown a few of our OO scale kits into the mix too,...
Storytelling With A Model Railway
The next photo in this story now sees us outside the store confirming that the clues we saw in the previous photo confirm that we're definitely at a well know UK DIY store. Here we now can see it must be a fence repair job that is taking place somewhere...
Adapting A Kit: When is a shop not a shop ? When it’s a pub!
As we keep mentioning, we love seeing how you all use our kits on your layouts & dioramas. We really enjoy seeing how you folks take one of our kits & say, “Hey I could change & adapt that kit into…”.
Upgrading Hornby Plastic Platform Sections
Many of us at some point in our railway modelling lives, have used those plastic OO scale platform sections from Hornby/Tri-Ang that have been around for decades. But as our railway modelling skills improve, we move on to scratch building our own platforms...
How To Hide Surface Mounted Point Motors On Model Railway Layouts
Many railway modellers use the surface mount type point motors as a means to operate pointwork remotely. Various brands of point motors can be mounted out of sight under the baseboard including Peco & Gaugemaster Seep.  This does mean however...
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