My name is Richard, and I am an armchair modeller. For about thirty years, I have read lots of books and magazines, had lots of ideas, bought lots of models, and made negligible progress towards actually building a model railway. Occasionally, I have been that insufferable soul at an exhibition who passes judgment (not usually out loud, I hasten to add) on others’ modelling efforts without ever coming close to doing it myself. Now, unequivocally into my late thirties and with a pandemic putting