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Modellings tips and answers - Modelling in time for Christmas - Videos

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A few second hand locomotives have landed on our website including some very nice railcars and Class 52s. We also have a very rare Master Chassis jig from Hobby Holidays. If you build engine chassis, this is the right tool for the job. It can also be used as a rolling road. You can always see the latest products on this page.

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

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Railway song of the week

Modeller Phil Stables suggested "Freight Train" as a song of the week. There are numerous versions available as this early 20th century folk song has been covered countless times including by The Beatles as part of their early concerts. We favour Scottish singer Nancy Whiskey's version. The video features 4 guitars, a double bass and a washboard. It cannot get more skiffle than that!

This week in history

On March 28th 1955, a French SNCF Class CC 7100 electric locomotive broke a world record (and the track) when it achieved a staggering top speed of 331 km/h (206mph).

Item of the week

The item of the week is the pack of track pins from Javis. They are 10mm long and are suitable for Hornby and Peco track.

Add a monumental feel to your layout

Most layouts feature a little bit of the world outside the railway's perimeters, often this comes in the form of a high street serving as a continuation of a station scene. Left unchecked though, and it's all too easy for your high street to become a caricature of the real thing. A good way to help avoid this is to add some ornamental features such as a monument, floral display, statue or a memorial to distinguish it and give it a characterful identity. This is especially easy to achieve in 00 gauge with many models of this type available including flower beds, village crosses, war memorials, benches, and statues.

If space is limited and you haven't enough room for a new structure, you may want to consider adding additional features to your existing high street such as a billboard, some crates, a bicycle stand, pillar boxes, phone boxes or a pedestrian crossing. Items like these give you further opportunities to think of lots of cameo scenes using figures or vehicles to bring your scene to life.

Modelling tips

We keep on adding modelling tips to our website. Here are the latest ones:

Or re-visit these slightly older 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 websit e.

Events and exhibitions

Find all the latest events and exhibitions for the model railway world, on the UK Model Shop Events directory. Hopefully, 2024 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 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.

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Sandown, PO36 8JR
Isle of Wight
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