News from your model shop - 28th March 2022
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Modellings tips and answers - Using Harburn Hamlet resin accessories - Videos

Hello

Unfortunately, due to staff shortage,not only is this newsletter late but our shop in Sandown is closed this week. We will reopen on Saturday 2nd April.
Mail Orders will still be dispatched as usual and emails and phone calls answered.

This week in history

On the 31st March 1935, the inner circle of Glasgow's underground is converted from a cable car system to 3rd rail operation. The Glasgow Subway is the third oldest in the world after London and Budapest.




Tool of the week

This week's tool for though is a pair of microsnips for cutting thread by Expotools. The overlapping shear-like blades of this specially designed tool make it ideal for cutting thread without the risk of fraying. The lightweight spring-loaded tool is easy to use and makes for a useful addition to any modeller's toolbox.


Putting a hamlet on the map

Harburn Hamlet is a brand of small resin structures, accessories and miniature dioramas used for railway modelling. Although Harburn is an actual small settlement in Scotland, where the manufacturer is located, some of the models that feature in the range would be better suited to a larger village or town, so any associations should be taken with a pinch of salt. Having said that, the generic appearance of the models can only be viewed as a positive which opens up the models to represent the majority of regions.

The models themselves feature the detail, quality and weighty feel you would expect from any resin model. They come fully painted and ready-to-plant offering modellers a highly effective way to add a focal feature to their layout. Many of their models have a rural feel about them such as the OO gauge hen house, Anderson shelter and hay bales sets.



For layouts that portray a larger OO gauge village or small town, you don't have to search very far to find a Harburn Hamlet model to enhance your scene. The models cover a wide range of locations from allotments and town centre floral displays to their popular phone box designs including a police box, an AA box and of course a traditional payphone.



If N gauge is more your cup of tea, it's well worth taking a look at what Harburn Hamlet has to offer. There are a few diorama enhancing models to choose from but where they really excel is in their impressive range of wagon loads, including coal sacks, crate loads, oil and chemical drums, cement bags, pipes and part-covered loads.





Modelling tips

We keep on adding modelling tips to our website. Here are the latest ones:
You can read all the articles sorted by categories or from the most recent published one on our website.

Unboxing videos

You want to know what is inside the boxes of modelling products? We open them for you! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to be notified before everyone else or simply click on this selection. Please note that videos are at the bottom of each page.


You can access all the unboxing videos by visiting this page or simply click on the link called "videos" on our website.

Events and exhibitions

Find all the latest events and exhibitions for the model railway world, on the UK Model Shop Events directory. Hopefully, 2022 will give us plenty of opportunities to attend events all over the country.

Do you need to order?

Send us an email or give us a call to check availability or to reserve anything, whatever scale you model in. As usual, if we do not have in stock what you are looking for, we will order it for you and you will get it fast (usually within a week if the manufacturer has it in stock). We place weekly orders with most suppliers.

Remember, you can park for free for one hour on the High Street. So no excuse not to come and visit us!

Upstairs Downstairs is usually open Tuesday to Saturday 10am till 4.30pm. Obviously, our website is open 24h a day and we can post to most locations, including Europe, USA and Australia.

Upstairs Downstairs
3 Pier Street
Sandown, PO36 8JR
Isle of Wight
Tel: 01983 406 616
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