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Adding realistic tyre tracks to muddy terrain in your scale model can enhance the scene’s authenticity and tell a...
When modelling fog in a railway scene, you’ll want to create a convincing sense of mist rolling over the tracks,...
Keeping your model trains running smoothly requires regular maintenance, and lubrication is a key part of that....
Waterslide transfers are a key component of scale modelling, allowing you to add intricate markings, insignias and...
The Firefly Class was a series of broad-gauge steam locomotives built for the Great Western Railway (GWR) between...
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A lot of the terminology that we use today derives from a pre-industrial time. Before trains were the topic of conversation we relied on horses as traction to get our ore, goods and people to where they needed to be and a transport orientated...
Mortar lines are the mortar or grout filled gaps between rows of bricks, stones or other types of masonry. Mortar lines are often replicated on scale-model buildings and structures to help make them appear more realistic, but are they the correct...
Model engines that are 'DCC fitted' are fully equipped with a decoder and other electronics enabling them to operate from a DCC (Digital Command Control) controller. This is not to be confused with models that are 'DCC ready' which merely...
Feedback on an analogue controller is a function that detects if your model train is experiencing difficulty climbing a gradient or struggling due to voltage drop, the controller then automatically applies more power to counteract the effects.It...
A unifrog turnout can perform as an electrofrog or an insulfrog turnout, that means that there is no longer a need for two products.A unifrog turnout works by having a metal frog, but the frog is isolated when in its default setting, this means...
From a modeller's perspective, there is no practical difference between bullhead and flat-bottom rail. The existence of two variants merely facilitates modellers who wish to represent a particular era in railway history. But why did the real...
A TPWS (Train Protection & Warning System) grid is an apparatus used on the railway as part of the ATP (Automatic Train Protection) system. Specifically, it is a transmitter placed on the track adjacent to a signal and is activated when the signal...
The answer to the question "What is the colour of rust?" is more a tip about modelling in general than a lesson in rust.The problem is, that we all have predetermined concepts of what colour everything in the world should be, probably ingrained in...
The British Rail Double Arrow logo was designed by Gerald Barney in 1965 for the then nationalised British Railways. The company was in pursuit of a new corporate image to complement the modernisation plan already in motion and promote rail travel...
Originally in the UK, signal posts were constructed from wood and square in shape.The later round signal posts were generally made from steel tubing and started to appear on the railways in the mid-1930s to support new colour-light signals and...
A push-to-break switch is a button that can be pressed to break a circuit. The break in the circuit is only effective for as long as the button is physically pressed in because the switches do not lock into position, current will again flow once...
Nowadays, freight trains are fairly uniform in their consists, industries seem to send everything in one trainload to a processing plant or further distribution centre. Inevitably that means most freight trains we see today will be wagon after...