4mm scale

LNER Swanbroke (Goods) After a small delay I have started a new small 4mm scale layout based on an LNER (Ex GER) line near the Norfolk / Suffolk border. As this is designed to be a semi-permanent layout along the office wall, I have used a fairly heavy duty stripwood frame with plywood...

Hello everyone! Welcome to my workbench where I shall be chronicling my modelling endeavours as well as general musings on the historical influences behind them. As stated on my welcome thread 'Greetings from the Fens', the eventual aim is to model the L&FR. However, time, space and, notably...

Hello, Greetings to you all.... With encouragement from @AJC @Rob R and @john lewsey I've started this post to tell the stories of the various bits of rolling stock I build. Or try to..... This continues from a previous thread 'Greetings from Gosforth East' but for necessity of completeness...

I do try, but sometimes a thread title doesn’t work on the first go. I’ll think on it. It started with a phone call. A chap called and asked if I’d be interested in helping him by building some coaches. Well, as it’s more or less what I do these days, I said I was happy to chat about it...

Just to introduce myself and say hi. I have been modelling 4mm more years than I can count on all my fingers and toes. Seems like yesterday in the fifties when father came home with an 8 x 4 roped to the roof of a Ford Prefect. Back then it was papier maché and horse hair and now we have...

In view of the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic and the restrictions on social interaction that are likely to remain in place for the next few months, it will not be possible to hold expoEM Spring in its usual format for the second year running. Instead, the EMGS are going online to host a 'Virtual...