How to create a realist ic embankment

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Peter Marriott explains how even the most basic of freight facilities can be given enough interest and detail to catch viewers’ eyes.

With one last gap in the backscene to fill, George Dent has made progress on another industrial building for his layout project.

Despite leaving their beloved Black Country for a new life in Cornwall, Neil Woodbine and Sue Farmer returned to their roots with this new layout, which captures the essence of Wednesbury in the late BR period.

Chris Nevard scratches a lingering itch by giving one of Model Rail ’s exclusive Ruston & Hornsby ‘PWM’ locomotives a suitably grimy appearance, using water-based paints that can be removed easily if things go wrong.

Can a London terminus be recreated in just over a square foot? Paul Page set himself the challenge to do just that, building an atmospheric layout within a wooden wine box.