How to replicate modern engineers’ ballast loads

Having built a small diorama, George Dent tests a new ballast product aimed at the contemporary Scottish scene, and offers a range of application tips.

After a chance encounter with a laser-cut depot kit, Paul Gosden set about building a fictional contemporary engineering facility, where green technology is embraced.

A chance buy inspired Chris Nevard to create a little-modelled cameo that you can re-create with some simple weathering and scratchbuilding.

Networking opportunity

The past few years have seen Accurascale’s ‘Powering Britain’ range of OO gauge wagons expand exponentially, beginning with the 24½-ton coal hoppers and going on to encompass both the 16-ton and 21-to

Always happy to try new materials, Peter Marriott experiments with an interesting range of modelling sheets that hail from Belgium.