Welcome to Christmas Hill

With Christmas now only weeks away, it appears I came good on my promise to have my Christmas themed layout ready in time for the festive season, (even if it was a year late). So, where’s Santa, I hear you ask? Well, he’s still working his way through …

Wintry highland fields

Winter is here! At least in the Northern Hemisphere where snow at this time of year is just a part of life. Here in sunny Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, (best city in the world IMO), I’m going to have to settle for making it snow in model form. After…

Artsy cobblestone platforms

Some people might think I’m strange for taking this approach, (friends included). But this post becomes the point where I stray from my past railway modelling approach and instead introduce some artistic elements into this little project. Starting with…

Cracking on with some modelling

Since running the first train around Bryn Nadolig a few weeks back, there’s been a flurry of work on the layout to complete the scenery and painting.As life would have it, this OO-9 layout project had lingered in a state of slumber since around this ti…

Wired for sound

The only way to test the track and officially run the first train on Bryn Nadolig, was to wire the layout and connect the feeder wires to the DCC plate that I had pre-built in one corner of the layout’s fascia. To do that, I had to temporarily remove t…

The road to Bryn Nadolig

Although it may be too early to be thinking about carving the Christmas or Thanksgiving turkey, for myself, it’s been a long overdue task to commence work on carving the hills of Bryn Nadolig. Like any project however, making a start on something is so…

Breaking ground on Bryn Nadolig

As the year slowly draws to an end and thoughts once more return to how many days there are left until Christmas, I thought it was about time I broke ground on Bryn Nadolig and got to work cutting the foamboard that will form the basis of my namesake C…

Sticking with my plan

Finally the track for my small OO9 Christmas layout has been laid. The day after Christmas! Still, I was thankful for the few spare hours on Boxing Day to glue the final sections of track in place that had been teasing me over the course of the pa…