Shunting signals are a type of railway signal that are commonly found in sidings and alongside regular signals. They are used in the same way as regular signals i.e. to authorise drivers to proceed, the difference being, the line ahead may not be...

When choosing a scale model, you'll be confronted with a huge range of scales to choose from, the most common aircraft, boats and cars etc will fall into a spectrum between 1:148 and 1:24 scale with 1:72, 1:50, 1:48 and 1:32 representing most of...

Hand drills are used in modelling for intricate jobs where a power drill would not provide the delicacy, pace and accuracy required when working on a small scale or delicate project.Quite often modellers will need to drill holes into a model...

Eduard is a Czech company that specialises in the manufacture of plastic model aircraft kits they pride themselves on their designs and undoubtedly produce some of the most detailed and accurate model aircraft on the market today.They also...

'Supplementary arrow signs' are the arrows that can be seen just beneath some signals or signage such as speed limits on a railway.One use for supplementary arrow signs is to clarify to a driver which line a signal relates to, this is...

A dropped baseboard is where modellers construct a small section of their board at a lower level than the rest. The most common reason for doing this is to include a valley in their layout. Using this method for constructing a valley means that...

There are numerous scales used by wargamers, traditionally, the scale in which they played was pretty much dictated by the type of game they were playing with certain games favouring certain scales, nowadays though, there is much more choice...

Most modellers will not dispute that soldering dropper wires to your tracks makes for the best electrical continuity around a layout, but, soldering wires to rails can often be more difficult than imagined and getting the solder to adhere to the...

The little wooden huts or sheds that modellers often place by the side of their tracks are likely to be "platelayer's huts". A platelayer was a railway worker responsible for the upkeep of the track. They looked after an allocated section of...

How long it should take to construct a model kit may seem like a question that can't be answered as it of course depends on the complexity and size of the kit as well as the experience of the modeller, but that doesn't make it a silly question. If...

A 'tripcock' is a piece of safety equipment on a train comprising an arm that protrudes to make physical contact with a 'trainstop' (a piece of lineside equipment set at the same height as the tripcock) as the train passes. If contact is made...

Joining sections of flexible track mid-curve can often result in small but annoying straight pieces of rail where two sections of track meet in an otherwise perfectly flowing curve. This is caused by the metal rail's memory causing tension as it...