Introducing the new layout of François Gilbert and me Matthieu Jacquemart. Naturally, it’s an O14 layout ! It is loosely based on the sablières of Nemours.
Here is the drawing for the project :
The layout is divided into three modules of 100×40cm. Total size is 360×140cm with slide.
Its construction was described in the french review [...]
Rhyd is a 014 gauge model built by David John of a fictitious (and highly improbable) branch off the Ffestiniog Railway. Any similarity to the village of the same name is purely accidental.
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The top end of the layout, a Roy [...]
Remember, one of my first post talk you about “A small trackside workshop”.
The diorama during Expométrique, on 2009 at Richelieu!
After a while, it seemed interesting to make this diorama functional and include it in a larger layout. The theme, not a real one, is a slate quarry in Belgium. The layout will consist of five [...]
Carl Arendt managed a popular website specifically focussing on small layouts. There’s lots of inspiration, including several O14 layouts and many layout plans.
Update. Sadly Carl Arendt passed away on Friday March 4, 2011. See comments for further details.
http://www.carendt.us/
Further to recent requests here is a video of some superpower on the Pentewan Light Railway. Locos are Wrightlines Baldwin and Backwoods K1 Garratt. Scenic work has progressed a little since the last video: k1-garratt-on-the-plr
The video was taken on a CanonG11 and assembled with iMovie on a mac. All the sounds are from the locos [...]
Here is a video taken at the Rochdale Model Railway Exhibition in February 2010 of Paul Holmes’ Dinas 1869 featuring Little Wonder
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“La ferme du Haut Bois” and “La Halte de Sousac”, here are some views of these first sceneries done for now.
The farm is based on an old pictures
The model, in place:
It is far than finished but the idea is there. The model is made of cardboard, plaster and wood.
And the little station, now used to [...]
Here is a video of Paul Holmes’ Dinas 1869 complete with sound and smoke effects filmed at Warley in November 2009.
White Hill is is based on one of the small cement works that once flourished in the Adur Valley in West Sussex, but have sadly, long since closed. It represents a typical cement works that was part of a much larger system with all of the various works [...]
This is the track plan of the standard and narrow gauge interchange yard of the Pentewan Light Railway – my long in gestation layout. Only some of this track is built.
The purple block on the plan is a tippler on a raised section of track from which loaded wagons of china clay will be tipped [...]
