RJ Models Chopper couplers look great but are fiddly to use. Here is a simple modification to make them more useful.
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After discovering one of my locos would not fit under a bridge on my layout I made up a simple height and width jig to test clearances. I cut a profile corresponding to the maximum height and width required from a piece of 9mm ply and fixed this to a piece of wood which fits [...]
O14 modeller Martin Field has provided the following link to some useful annotated pictures outlining various scratch building techniques, including lathe work, soft and silver soldering, panel forming etc. Although the examples are road vehicles they are equally applicable to railway vehicles, especially as the scale is the same. There’s no excuse now in tackling [...]
John Clutterbuck wrote a series of three articles about building accurate trackwork which was originally published in Roy C Link’s Narrow Gauge & Industrial Railway Modelling Review issues 63, 64 & 65. As Roy has now sold most of the relevant back issues, John and Roy have collaborated to produce an updated electronic booklet [...]
