Most modellers, regardless of what scale they work in, rely heavily on the humble plastic or metal kit, and this book will help both novice and more experienced modellers to achieve the very best results.
This invaluable, well-illustrated book is essential reading for all those who are interested in developing their modelling skills and creating realistic models of country houses, cottages and farm buildings for their railway layouts.
Locomotive kit building remains the best route to achieving a varied range of motive power in most scales but it also retains a mystique, being associated with expert modellers and expensive tools.
If you want to build a model railway but feel constricted and frustrated because you only have a very limited amount of space available, then this is the book for you.
Chess - Crowood Sports Guides is the perfect tool for anyone wanting to improve their performance, from beginners learning the basic skills to more experienced participants working on advanced techniques.
In August 1977, a radio telescope in Ohio recorded six unusual measurements - 6EQUJ5 - and astronomer Jerry Ehman wrote a single word beside them: Wow!
La plataforma online Smile and Learn, especializada en contenidos educativos, propone jugar en familia con preguntas amenas y curiosas de las siguientes temáticas: animales, medio ambiente, emociones, cuerpo humano, universo, curiosidades de la ciencia, viajes y alimentación.
El ambiente fascinante del París de la Belle Époque es el escenario por el que se desenvuelve Arsène Lupin, que plantea en este entretenido libro 150 enigmas para incentivar el ingenio de sus lectores.
Embárcate en un viaje increíble al Valle de los Reyes, en el Antiguo Egipto, para descubrir esta fascinante civilización en compañía del famoso Tutankamón, un joven faraón de la dinastía XVIII.
La plataforma online Smile and Learn, especialitzada en continguts educatius, proposa jugar en família amb preguntes amenes i curioses de les temàtiques següents: animals, medi ambient, emocions, cos humà, univers, curiositats de la ciència, viatges i alimentació.
Si piensas que el ajedrez es aburrido, o que ya eres demasiado mayor para aprender, eso es porque aún no conoces a Federico Marín Bellón, el periodista y bloguero sobre ajedrez del diario ABC.
This wide-ranging book, written by an experienced railway modeller, demonstrates how, with a little patience, you can produce accurate and realistic models of goods trains, sheds and yards.
This beautiful book draws on Robert Race's extensive collection of traditional moving toys, looking at the ways the makers have achieved remarkable and varied results, often with very limited resources.
Modelling the Great Western Branch Lines is essential reading for all those who wish to build a model railway based on the branch lines of the Great Western Railway.
Crowood Sports Guides are the perfect tool for anyone wanting to improve their performance, from beginners learning the basic skills to more experienced participants working on advanced techniques.
In railway modelling, getting the technical components correct is essential for a realistic-looking layout but, unfortunately, these often present the biggest challenges for the hobbyist.
A comprehensive look at four of the most famous problems in mathematicsTales of Impossibility recounts the intriguing story of the renowned problems of antiquity, four of the most famous and studied questions in the history of mathematics.
Three San Francisco traders become internet gambling pioneers after launching the first fully online sports book, but the fix is in as the professional sports leagues flex their muscle to game the system and turn its founders into fugitives, proving that no bets a sure thing.
After spending decades teaching chess to young children, Carol Ann Caronia has written Strategic Moves: Mind-Building Chess Exercises for Kids to share her exceptional wisdom and teaching methods with parents and educators alike.
From the author of 101 Things to Do Instead of Playing on Your Phone 101 ways to engage a gamer, take them away from their console and free their mind.
Blackjackal is a new three card game that takes quick analytic thinking from blackjack, table aggression and blluffing from hold 'em poker and transports the player to the hot savanna of a new and fierce gambling experience.
10,000 questions in 500 brand new, up-to-date quizzesCovering topics from pop stars to death stars, choose your rounds from general knowledge, specialist subjects and pot luck with questions from teasers to terrors that will scramble even an egghead's brains.