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The Violalakenslip layout frame

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December 15, 2023
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In keeping with my IKEA themed model railway layout that occupies one wall of our loungeroom, I colour matched the small layout frame that I built for Bryn Nadolig with the IKEA Eket display cases that this little OO9 layout will sit upon. When I sent …

Sacrificing length for functionality

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November 10, 2023
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For a small and simple layout such as this, it wasn’t really necessary to draw a track plan on paper before I started constructing the layout. All I needed to do was draw the track plan directly onto the sheet of 596 mm x 1200 mm x 7 mm plywood, and ma…

Keeping within 1st Radius

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November 7, 2023
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For some modellers the sight of a 600 mm x 1200 mm x 7 mm sheet of plywood isn’t going to do much to excite the senses or go too far towards completing the benchwork in your walk around model railway plans. So when the sheet measured only 596 mm wide x…

Narrowing my modelling projects

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November 2, 2023
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With so many half completed model railway projects either underway or accumulating in boxes in the wardrobe, last month I had one of those honesty sessions with myself where I asked; ‘just where are you going to find the time to complete any of them?’ …