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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
Reader John Davy wrote to us to suggest "Choo Choo Ch' Boogie" from Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers recorded in the early 1970s. Start dancing!
This week in history
On the 11th of September 1915, an electrified rail service commences between Paoli and Philadelphia, USA. The service was operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad using AC overhead wires.
Do you have one?
Look at this, this 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.
Down on the farm, in card!
Modelling a farm on your
railway is a bit of a no-brainer: they represent a realistic feature
that's incredibly flexible and will fill virtually any size or shape of
baseboard space you have available. If you are a modeller who likes to
use OO gauge cardboard kits and
thinking of modelling a farm of your own, you will be pleased to know
there is no shortage of buildings from Metcalfe and Superquick you can
use to make your farm interesting and lifelike. Virtually every type of
building found on a farm is represented in cardboard kit from
quintessential farmhouses to rather industrial looking cow sheds and barns, for larger farm dioramas, you may also consider adding additional buildings often found on a farm such as a stable block or Nissen hut.
And for N gauge, the choice is equally if not more impressive: as well as a range of cottages, a Nissen hut and a stable block, there are some farm sets containing multiple buildings such as the set including a farmhouse, workers cottage, barn and tractor shed, or another set containing a barn, cowshed, silo pit and two hen huts.
Whether you are planning a farm that is large or small,
there are plenty of farm buildings kits to help you create one that is realistic and well detailed, all you have to do is choose one (and build it of course!).
Modelling tips
Or re-visit these slightly older ones:
Unboxing videos
You want to know what is inside the boxes of modelling products? We open them for you!
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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, the end of 2024 will give us plenty more 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.
Upstairs Downstairs
3 Pier Street
Sandown, PO36 8JR
Isle of Wight
Tel: 01983 406 616
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