Category Archives: News

The current hiatus affecting worldwide shipping and the closure of Shanghai’s principal airport because of Covid-19 is throwing up some particular challenges for our business, compromising both the supply of parts and the delivery of finished products.  There may be … More →

Accucraft UK – Aster – an announcement It is with regret that we have decided to relinquish our UK distributorship and sales of the Aster Hobby Inc brand of models. This will be effective from Monday 2nd August. Although over … More →

Welcome to our July update.  With better weather it has been good to hear that many of you are back in the garden!  We’d like to thank those customers who dropped by our stand at the National Garden Railway Show, … More →

Welcome to our June update.  Hopefully the cold/wet spring is now behind us and we can look forward to getting out in the garden and running some trains again!  With the lifting of lockdown restrictions planned for this month we … More →

Coming soon!  The handsome Southern Pacific P-8 4-6-2. The Accucraft SP P-8 is due for release in July and will now also be available as a kit. Constructed by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1921, Southern Pacific’s fifteen P-8 class 4-6-2s … More →

Welcome to our April news bulletin.  This month we are pleased to announce a new small 1:19 (16mm) Scale locomotive for release early next year, as well as some developments in the 1:32 Scale range. New for 2022!  ‘Cranmore’ type … More →

Welcome to our March bulletin.  February saw the arrival of the first 100 ‘Large’ Quarry Hunslets in 1:19 (16mm) Scale.  This initial batch was entirely pre-sold but we should have further supplies during March so please be patient!  Work continues … More →

Welcome to our February bulletin.  This month will see the arrival of the first 100 ‘Large’ Quarry Hunslets in 1:19 (16mm) Scale.  This initial batch is entirely pre-sold but we should have further supplies during March so please be patient!  … More →

We’d like to wish all our customers and suppliers a Happy New Year and hope that 2021 proves to be better year than 2020!  With the hopeful news about vaccines it looks like some return to normal might be possible … More →

Happy Christmas! We’d like to take this opportunity to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and thank you for your continued support during 2020. If we thought 2019 had been a tough year we clearly had … More →