When it was pointed out to us that plywood sleepers are no longer readily available we got straight onto it and added them to our standard range of 00 and 0 gauge products. They are available as 10″ x 8’6″ and 10″ x 9′ (5.8 x 63mm) sleepers and also in longer strips to cut …
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We have updated our range of fences and matching gates. The five designs are now laser-cut from brown laserboard. This is a strong moisture-resistant board which takes paint well, although having a mottled brown finish it’s ideal for modelling timber fences without the need to paint them. The fences can be fitted into your baseboard …
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Hornby have made a huge investment in launching a new range of TT trains and railway accessories. Hornby are predicting TT scale, which is already very popular in Europe, will become the “go-to-scale” for UK modellers in the coming years. Being in-between 00 and N gauge (2.54mm to the foot/ 1:120 scale) makes it ideal …
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Our new window frame strips can be used to create canopy roofs as well as north lights, roof lights and signal-box windows etc. They come in depths of 10, 12, 15, 20, 25, 30 and 40mm and three different spacing options with the glazing bars spaced either quarter width to height, half width to height …
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I’ve just added this new door to our standard range of 00–scale architectural components. It’s a re-scaled version of the bespoke 0-scale door that features in all of the banners on our website. Link to new 00-DOOR408 Please get in touch if you would like any of our standard products re-scaled for your bespoke models. …
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Ian Hopkins is using frets from our 0-Footbridge01 kits to build his customized lattice footbridges for a model of the London terminus which the L&SWR built at South Kensington on the District Line. The bridge is different in various ways to our standard kit; in the main having extra broad steps at 10’ wide. The …
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The paper manufacturers, Winsor and Newton, have stopped producing Dusk Red pastel paper, which we’ve been using up to now for our range of red tiles. We’ve chosen a replacement red paper and card manufactured by Colorplan. All of our red tiles and ridges are now laser-cut using Scarlet Red, which is a little brighter …
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An unusual request which we received last year was for smoke troughs for a 00-Gauge roundhouse. I’m sure you’ll agree that Colin Brace’s model looks so amazing that, if you didn’t know, you would think the photographs were of the actual real-life building; complete with 7007 Great Western, Castle class locomotive. We are now producing …
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David Stewart kindly let members of the N-Gauge Forum know about the addition of Milestones and Gradient Posts to our online shop. As he says in the forum article, he’s been nagging us to make these for a while now! But I’m glad to say he was happy with the results and has sent me …
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