Gimme (a rustic) shelter

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.

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

Seasoned ‘O’ gauge modeller Alan Thompson fancied a break from larger layouts, and set himself a challenge of creating a highly detailed 7mm scale scene in less than 5ft.

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