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Modellings tips and answers - Inspiration: a scratchbuilt boat - Goods yards in OO gauge

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Don't forget to read our latest modelling tips located at the bottom of the newsletter.

Inspiration

Jim Baumann sent us some pictures of his latest project. He explains: "You may recall I bought rather a lot of white paint and brass tubes from your shop, some time before anyone ever heard of Covid or whatever was a lock down...! This model was completed 4 weeks ago; at last .... after nearly two and half years of work !! It is a 1/350 scale scratch-built 1919 Dutch tug" For more explanations and to see several more pictures, click on the images.

This week in history

On April the 29th 1942, LNER A4 'Sir Ralph Wedgwood' was destroyed whilst at York engine sheds during a bombing raid over the city.

A good goods yard

A goods yard is a great feature to have on your railway, it can be big or small and be a major feature or merged into the background, but however you decide to model a goods yard, it is certain to add play value to your layout facilitating shunting movements and variations in traffic.

There are many models dedicated to enhancing goods yard scenes, in 00 gauge this includes not only actual goods sheds but also the many auxiliary buildings that could once be found in goods yards to receive, store or process freight of different types. To make a feature of your goods yard why not try adding a timber shed, weighbridge, cattle dock or coal merchant?

There are also a great many models representing the freight and goods being conveyed from coal sacks to pallets as well as a wide variety of cranes varying in load capacity and type allowing you to model your goods yard to suit many locations from a sleepy branch line to a busy dock.

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