Author: Paul

ADORR

Aldershot and District Omnibuses Rescue and Restoration Society

ADORR Buses Society

Alton Model Centre

Alton’s very own model emporium

Shop Trader

Arcadia Pennsylvania

A fictitious, small industrial railroad freight terminal

1:48/O Gauge American

Bärental and Dorf

A view of the Rhätische Bahn metre gauge railway in Switzerland

Layout Swiss

Best of FebEx

Video highlights of layouts from the last 4 years of FebEx

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Best of FebEx video

Video highlights of recent ‘FebEx’ exhibitions

News Video

Bicsdale

1950s steam in the Forest of Dean

1950s BR(W) FebEx2020 OO

Brixcombe

A South Devon terminus of the Great Western Railway

British GWR P4

Cancellation of FebEx2022

It is with regret that Alton Model Railway Group announce the cancellation of our model railway exhibition ‘FebEx2022’, originally scheduled to take place on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 February 2022.

News

FebEx website goes live

FebEx online model railway exhibition website goes live

News

Gauge 3 Class 121 Bubblecar

Group member Mark Pretious builds a resin Bubblecar in Gauge 3

Gauge 3

Harlyn Pier

The O Gauge 2018 Best in Layout Show winner

1960s British FebEx2018 O

Harton Gill

The P4 winner of ‘Best Layout in Show’ 2015

FebEx2015 P4

Heritage in Motion

Sellers of transport related DVDs

DVD Trader

Introducing Pine Bluffs

Enter the world of the
Pine Bluffs & Ceda Falls Railroad

American Layout Pine Bluffs

Launceston

A recreation of the real life narrow gauge railway

British OO9

Leicester (Belgrave Road)

The OO gauge ‘Best Layout in Show’ winner 2020

British FebEx2020 OO

Mannin Middle

A ‘what if’ Isle of Man layout

Isle of Man

Medway Queen

In support of the Medway Queen Preservation Society

Society

Mid-Hants Wagon Group

The Mid-Hants Wagon Group consists of about 50 volunteers

Society

Model Railway Bits

For Bits & Bobs for the Railway Modeller

Trader

Much Murkle

Much Murkle was exhibited at FebEx2020

FebEx2020 GWR

My Life on the Buses

Ray Le Mesurier-Foster from ADORR recalls his times as a bus driver

ADORR Biography

New Wagon for 2021 from MHWG

The Mid-Hants Wagon Group have released a new limited edition wagon

News

Old Elms Road

A OO Western Region secondary mainline

OO Western Region

Part 1 Decline & Rebirth

Steve Cook on the restoration of a long forgotten line

Garden Railway

Part 1: Tools of the Trade

Elliott takes readers through the essential tools for weathering

Weathering

Part 2 Revival Phases 4 & 5

Track laying and ballasting begin in earnest

Garden Railway

Part 2: Applying Washes

Highlighting the groves between planks and the gaps around doors

Weathering

Part 3 Onwards & Outwards

Preparing the motive power

Garden Railway

Part 3: Airbrushing

Continuing the process with an airbrush

Airbrushing Weathering

Part 4 Bridge and Wye Track

The Wye track and SCRR Forks Creek bridge (Phase 6 et al.)

Garden Railway

Part 4: Pigments and Powders

Using a Filbert brush and weathering powders, aka pigments

Powders Weathering

Part 5: Conclusions

Looking after your newly weathered model

Weathering

Part 6: Elliott Cowton

More about the author of ‘The Art of Weathering’

Biography

Pine Bluffs Freight Yard

An element of the Group’s HO American layout

American HO Pine Bluffs

Pontesbury Sidings

A model of an unusual British prototype in 4mm narrow gauge

British Narrow Gauge

Railroad Trading

Books, periodicals, timetables and more

Books Trader

San Maria Gandia

A fictitious Spanish narrow gauge line

1960s FebEx2017 HO/HOe Spain

Shwt

A small station stop and goods yard in EM

1960s British EM

The Children’s Layout

Getting children in to the hobby

Layout building

The LSWR fleet

Mark Pretious on completing his Grandfather Peter’s loco kits

Locomotives LSWR SR

The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway

The Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Trust

Society

The Story of Whitedown MPD

A layout 30+ years in the making

Layout building

Trinity Dock Street Bridge

A layout, based on the lines around the town docks area of Hull

1930s FebEx2021

Vale of Oxbury

An N-gauge BR Western Region layout set in the 1960’s

British FebEx2018 N

Watercress Line

The N Gauge ‘Best Layout in Show’ winner from 2016

FebEx2016 N Gauge

What’s on my worktable

AMRG friend David Cole on building a Rotary Snow Plough

American On30 Scratch building

Why join a model railway club

Member Paul Gembidge describes his first layout

Layout building

Wickwar

West country 1950s in N

1950s British N Gauge