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SIMPLICITY RULES!

Developing a skill demands plenty of time and patience. Spending hours perfecting a piece to slot into that all important place to make the engine run and, perhaps more importantly, steam, is par for the course for both kit and scratch-build miniature makers.

Befitting of someone who doesn’t stand still and who is very much hands-on, even during our conversation James Stanley announces “I am standing here now filing a part for it!”

For James, and his fellow enthusiasts who spend many a pleasurable hour in workshops and garages up and down the country after tasking themselves with the challenge of building a

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