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Modellings tips and answers - Modelling around a farm - Tools - Videos

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

This week in history

At midnight on the 27th of September 1919, railway workers walked out in response to government plans to reduce wages. The strike lasted nine days before an agreement was reached to put off any changes until the following year.

Tool of the week

This week's tool of the week is both a spillage preventer and an anti tool misplacement device.

We have all done it: placed a tool down only to spend the best part of the next hour looking for it again, or worse, knocked over an open tin or bottle of paint or glue leaving us with a nasty emergency clean up operation and no more paint or glue.

This little storage device is a great way to keep your work station tidy, organised and spill free.

Modelling farming, not the farm

Many model railway layouts include a farm, but how often do we merely create a field, pop some sheep in it, and then never give it another thought?

That could be a bit of a missed opportunity as farms are a hive of activity with many different tasks undertaken, all just waiting to be modelled.

Many farms grow and harvest crops, just imagine how much more convincing a lush field of crops would look as opposed to a flat expanse of grass. Busch's OO/HO gauge crop strips are a quick and easy way to add such fields to your layout. You can even tell a story by adding a farmer on his tractor working in the field, or better still, use a cameo set of him having mechanical issues to make the scene even more intriguing.

Another job down on the farm is making hay for animal feed. This is another example of an activity that can be modelled to add interest. With the use of a hay-bales set, place the bales in a field, in a barn, or being transported between the two, and don't forget some silage to show the farm getting ready for the winter months.

Even during the few months of the year when a farm isn't tremendously busy, it is tremendously busy! It's during this time that farmers take care of maintenance, and repairing dry stone walls is a big part of this. Why not show this activity by placing a farmer or some labourers next to a broken section of wall. Javis make some very convincing farm walls, even damaged ones.

If it's livestock farming that takes your interest, there's no shortage of models to demonstrate this either, there are action sets depicting calf feeding, animal transportation and mobile water troughs along with farming figures to suit several eras and huge sets to make feature scenes with such as the 'Shepherd and Flock' set containing a massive 80 sheep, shepherds, fencing and vehicles.

There is a whole story to be told down on the farm, and thanks to an astonishing range of models dedicated to farming, your layout can be the one that tells the story.

Modelling tips

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