Hornby: A Model World

6.2(5)|2021-10-11|2 seasons, 21 episodes

Documentary

Overview

Going behind the scenes with one of Britain's best loved model-making companies. Hornby opens its doors to reveal how their dedicated team of designers strive to shrink a new generation of mighty machines

Episodes

Season 1(10)Season 2(11)

S1E1 · 2021-10-11 · 60m

Merchant Navy

A perfect diecast replica of a Merchant Navy steam locomotive is the task for Hornby's design team. Engineer Chris tries to capture the authentic sounds of a Light Pacific loco.

S1E2 · 2021-10-18 · 60m

Bristol Fighter

Experienced designer Carl has a challenge on his hands attempting to recreate a First World War biplane as a 1/48th scale Corgi model.

S1E3 · 2021-10-25 · 60m

Churchill's Funeral Wagon

Designer Sam creates a model of Winston Churchill's funeral wagon and first-time modeller Simon builds Britain's biggest model railway layout from his memory.

S1E4 · 2021-11-01 · 60m

APT

The team at Hornby are creating a replica of the West Coast Mainline train the APT to top speed.

S1E5 · 2021-11-08 · 60m

Spitfire

Hornby's young designer Paramjit Sembhi takes on the challenge of building a new version of the iconic RAF fighter of World War II, the Spitfire.

S1E6 · 2021-11-15 · 60m

Mosquito

After visiting an original Mosquito at the de Havilland aircraft museum, Airfix designer Paramjit attempts to shrink the wooden wonder to 1:72 scale.

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