As you can see, we’ve got the decorators in as we’ve commissioned a complete overhaul of the MTI website.

Gone is the javascript that seems to have caused so many problems for visitors and in comes what will hopefully be a user-friendly site (both for you, the reader, and for Jack and Emrys to update). You can comment on each post and we’ll be especially interested in your views on each issue.

Please bear with us while we finish loading the old page’s information (sample articles have been ported across, the layout designs and photographs and the model photographs will follow).

Emrys adds: As you’ll hopefully notice, the colour scheme will change to match the current issue’s cover colour. Neat, huh.

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Issue 64 has articles on a Porter 0-4-0T side tank conversion in G scale by Giles Barnabe, Raymond Butler’s La Planche-de-Bretagne N scale SNCF layout, a look at John Flann’s Dunnock Edge GWR layout, some new compact layout ideas and more 2006 new models.

New for 2006

Part 2 of our main survey

Dunnock Edge

Classic layout remembered by John Flann

La Planche-de-Bretagne

SNCF N gauge layout by Raymond Butler

Blacksmith Fork

Part 3 on John Flann’s new layout

Scale Drawings

From the files of Arthur North

An Americanised ‘Otto’

G scale conversion by Giles Barnabe

B & B couplings

Magnetic system assessed by Graham Weller

Supporting a baseboard

Idea from Simon Dawson

NG container flats

009 or H0e conversions by Graham Hand

August Yard

First attempt in N scale by Martin Hogg

General Water Heating Co

Structure flat by Bruce Petty

Pretter Port/Jax Yard

Layout designs by Jack Trollope

We also have our regular hobby news and comment, product news and reviews, club news, shows and events, book reviews and readers’ letters. Hornby, Athearn and Bachmann models are on this issue’s test track.