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I created this scene as a little bit of fun, and to try out some new techniques for applying snow and ice.  I was inspired by some frosty weather and feeling festive!

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,...

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...

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…”.

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...