How to: use static grass templates

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

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

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.

Networking opportunity

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.

How much of your layout is make-believe? CHRIS LEIGH isn't a slave to prototype fidelity, as he explains.