Guide to Modelling
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St Ann’s Cove: Painting rocks – and bringing the back scene boards to life
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The latest steps included shaping the outer harbour walls and working out the gradual slope of the beach to the left of the harbour mouth.
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Sneak Peek: Keeping the ‘Middy’ memories alive
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Craig Amess tells the story of the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway, which was finally closed in 1952 after years of struggle and debt
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Club Sport: Leicester Model Railway Group celebrates 70th anniversary year
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The Leicester Model Railway Group was formed at The Martyr’s Church Hall in 1949.
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Layouts to Love: Where railway modelling dreams begin
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RMM visited two recent exhibitions, at Altrincham and Leamington Spa, and was delighted by what was in store at both.
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What’s in the Shops: Streamlined ‘Duchess’ duo from Hornby
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Hornby releases two more LMS ‘Duchesses’, this time with LMS crimson lake and gilt streamlining and in single and double-chimney forms. The release of two more streamlined ‘Princess Coronation’ or ‘Duchess’ 4-6-2 express passenger locomotives by Hornby means that the LMS modeller is now well catered for with the iconic express passenger locomotives of the…
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Tech talk: The vital importance of wheel-cleaning
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RMM brings some handy tips and techniques for cleaning the wheels of locomotives and rolling stock in order to get the best performance from your models. Part 2 will appear next month. One feature of modelling that we take for granted is the use of the two running rails to conduct power to our model…
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What’s in the Shops: Worth their salt – Dapol fleet wagons
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Dapol has released two brilliant models of private-owner salt wagons on its new O-gauge 9ft RCH underframe. Salt from the Cheshire and Staffordshire area was an important source of traffic for the railways in the first half of the 20th century, when numerous small operations and family-owned concerns such as Stubbs and Company operated small…
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What’s in the Shops: Dapol’s N-gauge ‘Pacer’ emerges at last
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Nigel Burkin brings this review.
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What’s in the Shops: Eight beats to the bar!
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Nigel Burkin reviews a completely new OO-gauge model of the Southern Railway’s four-cylinder ‘Lord Nelson’ express passenger 4-6-0s that has now arrived in the shops from Hornby Reputed to be a difficult class of locomotive to fire, the Southern Railway’s Maunsell-designed ‘Lord Nelson’ (LN) 4-6-0s were constructed to haul the heavier cross-Channel passenger trains between…
