Model trains and track layouts ranging from a Meccano masterpiece to locomotives with digital hearts will battle for attention at the Wairarapa Railway Modellers biennial show in Masterton this weekend.
Modellers president Peter Murray says about 20 model train layouts will be on display, alongside trade stands and stalls at the two-day event that runs at the Masterton Town Hall on Saturday and Sunday.
He said the Wairarapa club had more than 30 members and modellers would be attending the show from as faraway as Wellington, Lower Hutt, Palmerston North and Napier.
The show will also include a large G Scale layout from the Wairarapa Garden Railway Group that will dominate the town hall stage and the oversized Wairarapa modellers club display that measures about 6m by 3.5m.
Mr Murray said a layout measuring about 1.5m by 900cm and worth several hundred dollars would also be up for grabs as the prize in a raffle that would run over the weekend.