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Thank you everyone - some great ideas, and I have Matt varnish in the garage. Taking the car apart to spray it won’t be a problem and is a good idea too. I’m wondering if I can mask off windscreen wiper sweeps on a windscreen and use the varnish to make the rest of the windscreen look like it’s spec...

Hi everyone, I'm looking for some advice here. I have a reasonable number of Oxford 1:76 vehicles for layout deployment and I have a bit of an issue with them. They're too shiny! The paintwork on model cars is, to my eyes at least, always a bit unrealistic, too perfect and so on, so I'd like to do s...

I know! I shouldn’t be running it on carpet, but it wouldn’t fit on the table and I’m planning a full strip down and service when I get home. As a watchmaker I’m aware of the fun that small bits of fluff can cause, and have the magnification and tools to resolve the incursion of the smallest particl...

Perfect, thank you - I knew my background in physics would come in handy one day

A quick question on this if I may? I’ve been given a decent amount of track and I’d like to use it if possible in order to save money, but it’s going to live in a location which may occasionally become more damp than would be ideal, so I’m not going to use it if it’s steel. But how do it I tell? Is ...

Mrs. Browne and I are currently enjoying a well-earnt (in my humble opinion) break at Lyme Regis, where the local antique shop has a reasonable selection of model railway bits at unreasonable prices, and the town is only a 20 minute jaunt to Pecorama. That’s Thursday sorted, btw. On Saturday we did ...

Thank you for the suggestions - at the moment those Ratio carriages are looking like they may be a good match. There’s one available for £9 on the links supplied by walkingthedog, so I may splash out on that and see where it goes. Funnily enough, glencairn, the Elisabeth Browne in the article you li...

Please forgive me if this is the wrong place for this topic, but it didn’t seem to fit anywhere else. I am currently in the planning phase for my first layout, and the location seems fitting: 2D625655-A207-49B1-BC2F-55F0A71D54A0.jpeg It’s an old carriage from our local steam line - Newport Nobby - w...

Thank you everyone for the kind words of welcome. I think I can disprove the theory that the only daft question is the one not asked. I’ve experience in this! I’ve been having a play around with some ideas for layouts whilst clearing the carriage this week and initially thought something like this m...

Or, at least, that's the plan. Does that need some explaining? I guess it does. 22 years ago we moved house and in the garden was... An old tailway carriage from our old branch line. How old is it? Well, my dad played in it as a child, and it was definitely there when the original owners had hte hou...