Can you weather a locomotive to look clean?
I have a go with Heljan's latest - Lyn. Since this is the earliest livery in the range, it doesn't want to be filthy, but no real steam engine looked as clean as a fresh from the box ready to run model.
Somehow, in a meeting, I ended up "volunteering" to build another small layout, this one in time to take to the London Festival of Railway Modelling in March. The prototype will be a small wagon repair works. I've already gathered quite a bit of scenic material, but to start with we need to do some planning.
Talking of which, my video for BRMTV shows some of the methods I use to plan a layout - expecially a micro one where you have to make every inch of space count.
Finally, I take a quick look at three ScaleModelScenery kits.
All this in the February 2022 issue of BRM.