On March 9/10 the Hornby Magazine team exhibited its Western Region ‘OO’ gauge layout Grosvenor Square at the Basingstoke Model Railway Exhibition. For this blog post I’m going to take you on a video guided tour of the layout highlighting…
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February saw our workshop in overdrive as Mark and I took on construction of not one but four micro layouts for the latest issue of Hornby Magazine – HM142, April 2019, on sale from March 7 2019. The premise was…
For this blog post I thought I’d do something different and take you on a video tour of the Hornby Magazine workshop. As always we are busy behind the scenes working on a series of micro layouts for the April…
On Monday we made the trip to London for the annual Bachmann catalogue launch – which you can read about on the News pages of our website and also in more detail in HM141, March 2019, on sale from February…
I’m breathing a huge sigh of relief as I type as our brand new ‘OO’ gauge exhibition layout, West Coast Cement, which is debuting at the Warley National Model Railway Exhibition this weekend (November 24/25 2018) is now complete, packed…
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It is literally only a few days since we packed up at the Great Electric Train Show, but already our thoughts are focused on the next two exhibitions for Hornby Magazine – the Spalding Model Railway Exhibition in Lincolnshire on…
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Tonight is a special night for railway modelling as Channel 5s new Great Model Railway Challenge is set to air at 8pm this evening. It pits teams of modellers against each other to build working model railways for this brand…
Time flies and it barely seems like five minutes ago that we were packing up after the Great Electric Train Show in 2017 with Twelve Trees Junction after a marathon build. But, here we are, 12 months later and the…
I’ve been making an effort to stop by the line side on my regular photography trips for the magazine lately. On August 15 I headed across country to Crewe for a photo shoot with the team from 45C (HM125) to…
Its not often I get the opportunity to stand by the line side these days, but earlier this week after visiting Pendon Museum for the official opening of the Bristol Line (you can read all about that in HM134, on…
April 2020Welcome to the April 2020 issue of Hornby Magazine, covering the latest news, reviews plus inspirational model railways, projects, railway history and more. This issue comes with a collection of nine videos linked inside, which you can watch right here, plus you can enter our latest competition to win a Hornby Stanier ‘Princess Royal’ 4-6-2 for ‘O’ gauge. Highlights of this issue include Greg Brookes’ stunning ‘EM’ gauge layout Shenston Road, an exclusive interview with Simon Kohler about Hornby past, present and future, our first reviews of the Hornby ‘Princess Royal’ 4-6-2 and Stephenson’s Rocket for ‘OO’ gauge plus new releases from Dapol, Accurascale, Oxford Diecast and more. Projects cover weathering of Freightliner Class 66s, how to make a waterfall and how to install digital sound in a Bachmann ‘9F’ to celebrate 60 years since BR’s last built steam locomotive 92220 Evening Star was completed in 1960. Don’t miss it!
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