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KANINCHENBAU

Ian Morrison introduces his computer-controlled Alpine HOe exhibition layout, the portable part of a larger permanent home project.

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SEIKETSU 

The (rail) way to a Japanese layout: Mike Keeble explains how the search for better N gauge mechanisms eventually took him to Japan.

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Steinbruch
Roger Nicholls has set his new HO layout, a line serving a quarry, somewhere in south-west Germany in the 1970s.

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San Maria Gandia
Ian Milroy and Robin Marie have a new HO/HOe layout, inspired by the narrow gauge in north-eastern Spain.

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Praha Veleslavin
John Kabesh was pleasantly surprised to find a small station worth modelling in the suburbs of Prague.

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Waldburg - and more
Mike Mackay has created a satisfying German HO layout - a small network of three stations with optional continuous run which offers interesting operation within a reasonable space.

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St. Combs
A small section of the Canadian National in N - Norman Raven was motivated to build a new exhibition layout set in Canada following a 'request' from his wife...

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Creating a Crampton
Inspired by the example preserved at the Cit?© du Train, Jacques Por?© assembles a recent kit by Est Mod?©les for a French historic locomotive.

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The outlines illustrated in this book, designed by the Lyme Regis artist Shuna George, are a starting point for you to commence with your pencils, paints and imagination. They are designed for the young and young at heart of all ages, the novice and the enthusisast. The book also provides for you to draw your own outlines, or to record your own memorabilia or notes of your visit to Pecorama

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Le Vicinal ?† Vresse
An evocation of SNCV/NMVB line 553 – Jan Martens has created a convincing HOm impression of a typical Belgian local metre gauge tramway.

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Cap Sacr?©
More Tramways de la Corr?®ze than Vivarais ‚Äì Peter Dale has modelled in HOm a small town station on a French int?©r?™t local metre gauge line.

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SNCF CC72000
To augment his feature in the recent CM French Special, Gordon Wiseman offers more illustrations of a widely used high power mixed traffic diesel

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H??llentalbahn
Gerard Tombroek introduces the HO layout built for Roco depicting the famous line through the Black Forest to display the new model of the BR85 2-10-2T.

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Atmafer
A French railway wagon maintenance workshop: Ga?´lle and Olivier Taniou describe a compact HO layout which they first displayed at Trainsmania in Lille in 2017.

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Neuburg
Back in the DDR! Nick Palette has built a new HO layout, once again set in East Germany.

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Ulle
Great minds think alike! Peter Smith and Ian Stock independently alighted upon the potential of a French station that is a shadow of its former self but which would make an interesting layout.

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Outeniqua Museum
Johan Leflang reports on some recent additions to the HO layout at a well-known transport museum in Cape province, South Africa.

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Vif
Mark Booker has created an attractive N gauge layout based on a real French location, which can represent several periods with a change of stock and road vehicles.

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Varenna
A scenic location near the shore of Lake Como - Peter Marriott sees the modelling potential in a simple Italian passing station.

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Franklin Goes to the USA
A tale of two transatlantic expeditions: Bob Harper relates how he took his American 0n2 layout to an exhibition - in America!

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The history of a Pullman dining car which carried passengers in luxury to the Channel Ports en route for Paris. Today Orion can be seen preserved at Pecorama where it provides the perfect setting for morning coffees and cream teas. Includes some useful drawings for modellers. 35 pages.

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Langdon Beck
Three Cumbrian/North Yorkshire branches could have been linked to create another trans-Pennine route, as Peter Osborne shows with this OO layout.

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A City Terminus in OO
Steve Flint demonstrates how an extensive facility, with goods yard, engine servicing and carriage sidings, can be fitted handsomely in a 20' x 9' area.

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LBSC Atlantics
With the Bachmann 4-4-2s in OO on the horizon, the home-built class of six H2s and the close relatives the five Kitson H1s are described by W G Ascough.

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Customising R-T-R Locomotives in OO
Your FREE Shows You How booklet explores how to add extra realism to R-T-R locomotives, including renaming and renumbering, upgrading moulded details, adding crew figures, plus detail painting and weathering techniques.

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Unteres Pre?ünitztalbahn
Steffen Spittler describes his authentic Sachsen HOe layout, depicting two stations on lower section of the Pre?üniztalbahn, the upper part of which is now a successful museum line.

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Salsdorf
Norman Raven reveals how acquisitions of attractive stock eventually prompted an easily portable German TT layout.

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Birkenstock
Janhein Ruigrok was inspired by some classic photos from East Germany to model the upper terminus of a steeply-graded line in HO, but had to modify his plans.

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Kaley Yard
Trevor Smith introduces his current home HO layout, set somewhere in the California desert, being developed on two levels connected by a helix.

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Tramstraat 1930
G?©rard Hendriks introduces the research for his project to model in HOm part of the former local tramway in the Eindhoven area of The Netherlands.

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