Skills week – starts Monday January 23

From Monday, January 23, join us for an exciting week of modelling skills and layout entertainment, here on World of Railways. It starts with a day dedicated to DCCconcepts which can be found by clicking here.

From videos to step-by-step tutorials, or written articles, you can expect to learn many new modelling techniques, alongside great layouts, product information and interviews. Visit the website from Monday, next week, and click the ‘Skills Week’ button in the top navigation bar.

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The content schedule is as follows:

Jan 23: DCC Concepts Day

• Video: Zen decoders

• Video: Cobalt S Levers

• Video: Powerbase

• Video: Premium Edition rolling roads

• DCC Concepts – more than just DCC

• O gauge rolling road

• Intelligent DCC circuit breaker

• BBar and Cutters

• Premium trackbed and scale ballast

• Legacy Skyline lighting range

Jan 24: Scenery Day 1

• Video: How to apply static grass
• Video: Planting trees
• Video: Model a realistic waterfall
• Layout: 'Blueball Summit'
• Layout: 'Middleton Dale'
• Techniques: How to model broad leaf trees
• Techniques: Detail a market stall
• Techniques: Model trees in two hours
• Techniques: Model winter
• Techniques: Model summer

Jan 25: Scenery Day 2

Constructed to fit inside a garden shed, read the story behind this layout build.

• Video: Add a fence to your layout
• Video: How to model hedges
• Layout: 'Dent'
• Layout: 'Amberdale'
• Techniques: Create a spring scene
• Techniques: Model autumn
• Techniques: Create a rock face cutting
• Techniques: Make a working cyclist diorama
• Techniques: Modelling canal water

Jan 26: Weathering

• Video: Behind the scenes at the TMC Workshop
• Video: TMC’s exclusive Class 45s take a spin on a huge layout
• Video: Weathering wagon interiors
• Video: Weathering road vehicles made easy
• Video: Weathering a locomotive
• Interview: A success story: Grimy Times
• Layout: Peterborough North
• Layout: Hornsey Broadway
• Techniques: Weathering diesel locomotives
• Techniques: Make track more realistic
• Techniques: Airbrush maintenance guide
• Techniques: How to weather your first model
• Techniques: How to weather OO9 skip wagons

Jan 27: Accurascale Day

Accurascale's Class 92 for 4mm:1ft scale.

• Accurascale MHA ‘Coalfish’ wagons
• Weathering MGR Wagons
• Converting The PFA to EM Gauge
• Accurascale Review of 2022
• Interview with Fran and Paul from Accurascale
• Reviews: Class 92 and Mk. 5 coaches

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