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British Rail Motorail Project Part 1

This video from oorail.com is the first part of a series looking at various options for modeling British Rail's Motorail service. The…

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Model Railway Layouts Forum £20.15 Challenge Entry - Part 1
19 MAY 2015 · How To

Model Railway Layouts Forum £20.15 Challenge Entry - Part 1

This video from oorail.com is the first part in a series documenting an entry into the Model Railway Layouts Forum £20.15 challenge. You…

How to build Third Rail Lighting Effects for OO Gauge Model Railway
14 JAN 2015 · How To

How to build Third Rail Lighting Effects for OO Gauge Model Railway

This video from oorail.com shows you how to create an arcing lighting effect for third rail lines. In this video we show you how to build…

LNER Teak Coach Project - Part 1
10 JAN 2015 · How To

LNER Teak Coach Project - Part 1

As you've seen from recent videos we picked up the LNER 2-8-2 Class P2 with TTS sound by Hornby. Unfortunately we didn't have any suitable…

Hornby Class 58 Project - Part 3 (Servicing)
9 JAN 2015 · How To

Hornby Class 58 Project - Part 3 (Servicing)

In this video oorail.com shows you how to quickly service the Hornby Class 58 motor. The locomotive shown here is 58034 - Bassetlaw from…

Hornby Class 58 Project - Part 2 (Weathering)
8 JAN 2015 · How To

Hornby Class 58 Project - Part 2 (Weathering)

This video is the second in our Class 58 enhancement project. In this video we show you how we weathered the original Hornby Class 58 in…

Street name signs for British OO Gauge Model Railways
1 JAN 2015 · Scenery

Street name signs for British OO Gauge Model Railways

This video from oorail.com looks at the British Street name sign kit from modelrailwayscenery.com. This kit is available as a downloadable…

Building Elevated Track - Part 1
4 DEC 2014 · Layout Updates

Building Elevated Track - Part 1

This video from oorail.com explains how to calculate the grade of an inclined track, provides information on the recommended grades…

Enhancing the Hornby Class 58
15 NOV 2014 · Loco Works Wednesday

Enhancing the Hornby Class 58

This video from oorail.com shows you how to enhance the old Hornby Class 58 models. In this video you will see a brief comparison with the…

Weathering Model Railway Card Kits
12 NOV 2014 · How To

Weathering Model Railway Card Kits

This video from oorail.com shows how to use weathering powders to adding realistic weathering to printable and pre-printed card kits. The…

Weathering Model Railway Card Kits
12 NOV 2014 · Weathering

Weathering Model Railway Card Kits

This video from oorail.com shows how to use weathering powders to adding realistic weathering to printable and pre-printed card kits. The…

Hillside Project Part 1 - Scratch Built Retaining Walls
28 OCT 2014 · Layout Updates

Hillside Project Part 1 - Scratch Built Retaining Walls

This video is the first part of the oorail.com Hillside Project. For this project we will be overhauling the retaining walls, tunnel portal…

Model Railway Scenery Printable Kits
6 SEP 2014 · Scenery

Model Railway Scenery Printable Kits

This video from oorail.com provides an introduction to the printable kits from ModelRailwayScenery.com. The video introduces…

Model Railway Weathering Project - V3 Tank
26 AUG 2014 · How To

Model Railway Weathering Project - V3 Tank

This video from oorail.com takes an old Bachmann V3 Tank 67673 in BR Plain Black Early Emblem with Westinghouse pump that we acquired on…

Adding roads to your British Model Railway Layout
19 JUL 2014 · Scenery

Adding roads to your British Model Railway Layout

This video from oorail.com shows one technique for adding roads to a British Model Railway Layout. The video walks you through adding a…

Building Low Profile Retaining Walls for Model Railway Backscenes
17 JUL 2014 · Scenery

Building Low Profile Retaining Walls for Model Railway Backscenes

This video from oorail.com shows how to scratch build low profile retaining walls for model railway back scenes. The standard retaining…

March 2014 Layout Update
29 MAR 2014 · Layout Updates

March 2014 Layout Update

This video from oorail.com is part three of the Model Railway Layout Challenge series. In this video we get started with the project…

92214 - 9F Hornby Model Railway Project
21 DEC 2013 · Loco Works Wednesday

92214 - 9F Hornby Model Railway Project

This video from oorail.com introduces our new 92214 - 9F model railway project. This project will take the Hornby Railroad R3155 9F - 92214…

OO Gauge Road Vehicles for Model Railways
16 DEC 2013 · How To

OO Gauge Road Vehicles for Model Railways

This video from oorail.com takes a quick look at a number of Corgi, BritBus and Oxford Diecast road vehicles that are available in OO scale.

Lima Class 42 Warship Model Railway Project - Part 1
15 DEC 2013 · Loco Works Wednesday

Lima Class 42 Warship Model Railway Project - Part 1

This video from oorail.com introduces our new Lima Class 42 Warship Model Railway project. Earlier this year we acquired a second hand Lima…