TWEEZERS

Railway modelling often involves dealing with tiny and fiddly items that even the nimblest fingers will struggle to manipulate. Tweezers are useful for anything from working with decals to holding track pins in place or fitting locomotive details, making scenery and installing figures. I’ve used this pack from Bachmann for illustrative purposes but there is a huge range of tweezers to choose from, made by different manufacturers and with different heads, as well as slide-locking or self-gripping types.

These spade-ended tweezers are designed for working with very fine items, such as these grass tuft fibres.

This pair of tweezers with angled tips is ideal for helping to fit all those extra bits you get with a ready-to-run locomotive.

Tweezers with very fine points are perfect for manipulating tiny scenic details.