Hornby is a household name with a history that goes back over 80 years. This book looks at the Hornby range in depth & shows how Hornby models can be used to build a model railway layout to suit the space available & all levels of modelling skill. Now completely revised & updated it is packed with hints & tips for easy layout building scenic structure modelling track laying & wiring & extra detailing & provides ideas for working at the simplest level including a layout for very young enthusiasts through to the more experienced modeller. Extra sections relating to recent developments in the hobby are included along with new photography new layouts & recent additions to Hornby rolling stock & the Skaledale range. ...

Any model railway layout can be enhanced with the effective use of scenery & accessories. Chris Ellis examines the range of ready-made scenic accessories available to modellers & also explains how to make your own scenic structures. Tips & techniques for adapting & weathering such accessories are included along with clear step-by-step instructions that explain how to create rolling hills trackside buildings & even lakes & rivers from a variety of materials whether bought from modelling shops or using discarded product packaging. The book's sections include: planning backdrops & scenic settings; building basic terrain; painting backgrounds & creating the illusion of distance & perspective; texturing vegetation foliage & trees; modelling water; depicting rocky surfaces such as cliffs scree & waterfalls; incorporating civil engineering (tunnels & bridges) & adapting Skaledale & other accessories for use in personal dioramas. A useful appendix also contains details of popular modelling materials stockists & suppliers useful reference works & other research sources. ...

The first two editions of the Hornby Magazine Yearbook published November 2008 & 2009 were a huge success. This third edition is certain to take the modelling market by storm & will be eagerly awaited by modellers nationwide. This volume follows on with this successful blend of practical features for a wide range of modelling skills. The illustrations are vital to the success of the book & this new edition is packed full of high quality photographs plans layouts to illustrate the practical nature of many of the features. Mike Wild editor of the magazine of the same name has compiled a selection of new material to complement the magazine making this an attractive end-of-year purchase for all modellers. The features will inform & guide & include how-to features fantastic images of the best layouts modelling tips articles about the history of the railways etc appropriate for all the popular scales. ...

Hornby Magazine No 1" published November 2008 was a huge success was instantly in high demand & sold out within weeks of publication. The second edition follows on with this successful blend of practical features for a wide range of modelling skills. The illustrations are vital to the success of the book & this new edition is packed full of high quality photographs plans layouts to illustrate the practical nature of many of the features. Mike Wild editor of the magazine of the same name has compiled a selection of new material to complement the magazine making this an attractive end-of-year purchase for all modellers. The features will inform & guide & include how-to features fantastic images of the best layouts modelling tips articles about the history of the railways etc appropriate for all the popular scales." ...

The Horned Viper is the second in a new series of four books set in Ancient Egypt. The Spitting Cobra the first in the series was published in August 2009. Two further instalments will be released in 2010. Each book is a well researched & atmospheric evocation of Egyptian life encased in an exciting adventure story. The boy & girl characters Hopi & Isis feature in each book & readers will be intrigued to follow their struggles for existence & adventure in Egypt circa 1150 BC. In this story The Horned Viper Isis & Hopi find themselves on the banks of the River Nile pitting their wits against dangerous servants. ...

Deputy Chief Virginia West likes & respects her boss Hammer but with an increasing number of visiting businessmen being murdered in her city by a maniac with a penchant for painting his victims bright orange she finds it hard to accept Hammer's edict that a rookie reporter should ride on patrol with her to better relations with their citizens. Her worst fears are confirmed when the reporter Brazil presses the button to activate the boot-release rather than the siren on their first outing. He's not the only blight on her life right now: her cat's angsty her hormones are misbehaving her opposite number in the uniformed division is behaving like a jackass the radio despatcher is determined to trip her up the D.A. is in the middle of a hot battle with the trial schedule. & orange coloured corpses keep turning up on her patch. ...

It's 1917 & Captain Stanley Woolley joins an R.F.C. squadron whose pilots are starting to fear the worst: their war over the Western Front may go on for years. A pilot's life is usually short so while it lasts it is celebrated strenuously. Distractions from the brutality of the air war include British nurses; eccentric Russian pilots; bureaucratic battles over the plum-jam ration; rat-hunting with Very pistols; & the C.O.'s patent potent cocktail known as ' Hornet's Sting'. But as the summer offensives boil up none of these can offer any lasting comfort. ...

The Horologicon (or book of hours) gives you the most extraordinary words in the English language arranged according to the hour of the day when you really need them. Do you wake up feeling rough? Then youre philogrobolized. Pretending to work? Thats fudgelling which may lead to rizzling if you feel sleepy after lunch though by dinner time you will have become a sparkling deipnosophist. From Mark Forsyth author of the bestselling The Etymologicon this is a book of weird words for familiar situations. From ante-jentacular to snudge by way of quafftide & wamblecropt at last you can say with utter accuracy exactly what you mean. ...

It's a world where everything seems pretty normal. But the weird the sinister & the truly terrifying are lurking just out of sight. Like an ordinary-looking camera with evil powers a bus ride home that turns into your worst nightmare & a mysterious computer game that nobody would play...if they knew the rules! Each story has a shocking sting in its tale... ...

Welcome to a strange & twisted world where the spooky the shocking & the positively petrifying are lurking just out of sight. A bus ride home.. .turns into your worst nightmare. A quaint country cottage.. .has a grisly secret. A man returns from holiday.. .with bubbling skin & bloodshot eyes. Horowitz Horror. Its all around you. Alive. Waiting. Enter if you dare. ...