Model Railway Forum

I had some figures in stock from their Patreon scheme that were suitable. Yes they do a few bespoke crews, some even come precoloured (not painted) produced by a 3D process called sintering - it uses powder rather than resin.

There are quite a few photos online that appear to have been taken in the 60's showing yellow axle boxes.

I temporarily evicted the family of penguins that found the temperature in the shed to their liking to have a fiddle with a troublesome loco. I bought a secondhand Royal Scot earlier in the year but last week it wouldn't run more than a couple of inches before the valvegear started binding. I found ...

An unintended purchase (damn you Hornby with your special offers!😉) Thompson L1 in BR black. It's been sitting on the bench for a few days due to a rather nasty bout of flu which seems to have triggered more than the usual level of aches and pains. I've always liked the big tank engines and this one...

One feature of the Hornby HMDCC system is the ability to load photos of your own locos into the app to aid loco selection and control. Many will just snap a loco on the layout, but I find those images a bit cluttered for use in an index. Instead, I prefer a plain background so I've built a light sta...