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2024 – a transition of layouts and farewell

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December 28, 2024
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Prior to Christmas I officially farewelled my former HO scale Australian shelf layout Philden Beach. As you read this post it is probably being set-up in its new home in Newcastle, NSW which is ironic given my North Coast themed layout will have travel…

Size is everything with an apartment layout

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December 18, 2024
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Deciding to move on my HO layout Philden Beach has been purely a size issue. As you can see, the 3.3 metre long layout overwhelms our apartment’s small lounge room, and there simply isn’t enough wall space anywhere else in our apartment to accommodate …

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Rainbow over Philden Beach

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November 9, 2024
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There’s a rainbow over Philden Beach as my part in its story prepares to come to an end.Plans. We can make them. We can break them. And we can change our mind along the way. Just like the concrete plant from my original Philden layout that I had been p…

Expressions of interest – Philden Beach

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November 2, 2024
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Expressions of interest are now being accepted for the Australian HO scale model railway layout Philden Beach. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to secure a complete ready-to-run museum-quality layout that was built over the course of 4 years.At…

Friday Film Club ~ TRAINS GONE TROPPO – Sweet as Sugar

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October 11, 2024
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Friday Film Club presents the final edition of Trains Gone Troppo as this week we journey to the shores of Philden Beach for some sweet sugar hopper action!Join the fun again next Friday, and don’t forget to like and subscribe so that you don’t miss an…

The full circle moment

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October 3, 2024
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Coffs Harbour Railway Station. September 2024.Sometimes a modeler’s hobby and personal life come together in a full circle moment. For myself, another holiday in Coffs Harbour has come and gone, and while I never meant to grow old, age has quietly crep…

Lazing by the Sea

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September 22, 2024
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A C Class has returned to the seaside!Nearing the end of a difficult to navigate 2024, my beach layout has had a happy face return to the roster in the form of the Auscision Models C Class locomotive. My original C Class model C509 in the Cootes Indust…

Fake pipes and weathered right

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September 15, 2024
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The cement plant unloading area will be built on the beach side of the refueling tracks.Some good old-fashioned scratch building has been undertaken alongside Philden Beach, with the area between the diesel refueling tracks and the No. 1 track or beach…

The Bus Depot closes

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September 11, 2024
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Late on a hot August night, the small bus depot that had stood alongside the tracks at Philden Beach saw the drivers sign-off for one last time and the two luxury motor coaches quietly disappear in the dead of night.With the busses gone, the witches’ h…

Re-detailing the Cement Plant

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September 9, 2024
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This past week I returned to some old-fashioned model building projects. My task was to reconfigure the cement plant building from my old Philden layout so that it could be easily transplanted onto my Philden Beach HO scale shelf layout. As the model h…