Model Rail

Model Rail magazine is the UK's biggest-selling magazine dedicated to railway modelling. Every issue is packed with the country’s finest home and club layouts, stunning photography, unbiased and in-depth product reviews, expert tips, layout plans and step-by-step articles that really show you how. In our unique ‘Workbench’ section, we tackle a wide range of modeling skills and projects. Our expert writers and model-makers will help you to get the most from your hobby and build the layout of your dreams. Model Rail is published 13 times a year, every four weeks.

Welcome

Opening the box • The latest happenings from the world of model railways

HORNBY’S PULLING OUT THE STOPS FOR 2024

EXHIBITION DIARY - JANUARY-MARCH 2024

…and finally

News Real

Staff Show & Tell Industrial expansion • More industrial buildings have been created for the backscene of George Dent’s layout.

A large-scale diversion

New Year - new project

Inside track with Ben Ando

Concrete ambition • When the itch to create a new layout came, Pete Latham decided to spare his wallet and use what he already had in stock.

HOW TO CREATE REALISTIC CONTOURS • Peter Marriott shares his methods for building railways embankments and landscape.

HOW TO MODEL LINESIDE JUNK USING KIT LEFTOVERS • Steve Nall raids his scrap box to reproduce various types of railway-related detritus.

Waste not want not

HOW TO BUILD DAPOL’S KITMASTER L&B BUILDINGS • Chris Leigh test-builds Dapol’s new range of laser-cut kits, depicting structures of the narrow gauge Lynton & Barnstaple Railway.

Signal Cabin & Gents’ Toilet

Farewell to Polwyddelan • Chris Leigh says goodbye to his Cornish harbour layout.

HOW TO MODEL WINTER TREES USING BARE ARMATURES • This is where our team of experienced modellers answer YOUR questions. Email your queries about railways - real or model - to modelrail@bauermedia.co.uk

HOW TO BLEND IN PATCHES OF PAINT ON BODYWORK

KNOW YOUR… LIVERIES • Paul Chancellor presents an overview of the colour schemes carried by the popular Type 2s.

PETER’S SCENERY CLINIC

EXPERIMENTING WITH

STRIPPING TIPS

Moving with the times • Priorities change, so when its exhibition layout became too cumbersome, Beaconsfield Model Railway Club grasped the nettle and built a lighter, more compact layout that featured more operational interest.

Hornby-Dublo LNER ’A4’ 4-6-2

Factfile: LNER Gresley ’A4’ 4-6-2

Hornby Ruston & Hornsby ’88DS’ 4wDM

Factfile: Ruston & Hornsby ’88DS’

System builder

Dapol LSWR ’B4’ (cutaway cab)

Hornby RailRoad Plus Class 110

Hornby TTA tank wagons

Bachmann & Farish HRA aggregate hoppers

Hornby ’TT:120’ wagons

Peco ’TT:120’ RCH 7-plank open wagons

Modeller’s bookshelf review special • George Dent and Chris Leigh present eight new titles that will appeal to modellers and general enthusiasts alike.

Model Rail

Present your case • If there’s a prototype that you think needs to be offered ready-to-run, here’s the place to voice your opinion…

Backscene • A picture, so they say, is worth a thousand words. Chris Leigh’s 750 words or so of Backscene are about pictures, and how they’ve been taken in the past 60 years.