We’ve received a bumper crop of new books this month, so here’s a special edition of Modeller’s Bookshelf, featuring a range of titles that will inform and inspire your modelling.

For all of us, there are good days and there are bad days. CHRIS LEIGH ponders picking up the pieces and starting again.

Some final thoughts from the team at RAIL

With Christmas accelerating rapidly towards us, the most organised Motorsport News readers will surely have at least started their festive shopping. But if you are a little late on the brakes this December, then it’s not too late to apply the throttle. We’ve picked out a handful of options to help you find the right gift for the special motorsport connoisseur in your life

You can’t get better than Derwent when it comes to the pigments in its renowned Drawing Pencil range. There are now 48 new nature-inspired colours, taking the range to 72 in total. The Drawing Pencils

One of the best-known names in railway photography, Colin Marsden takes up the mantle of this month’s 10 Pictures feature. The former railwayman is also a well-known author who during the last five de