Continental Modeller Magazine December 2025 Vorige editie

AILWAY OF THE MONTH
PORT DE CROZON
On the metre gauge Réseau Breton – Gordon Gravett introduces his new French layout, modelled in 1:50, which portrays an imaginary seaside terminus.
It will be making its debut at the Manchester show.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
HEIDE
Yannick De Vynck has modelled in HO a wayside station on Line 12, between Antwerp in Belgium and Roosendaal in The Netherlands.


FEATURES

RETURN TO NAZARETH
On the Bangor & Portland branch of the Erie Lackawanna – Ian Wilson has developed his American HO home layout, introduced in the October 2024 issue.

ROSENFJORD
The end of a Norwegian branch line modelled in HO – Alasdair Reid rekindled an old interest in Norway and created a permanent layout in his garage.

PORTAGE
An Alaskan snow scene – Stuart Robinson describes a compact HO switching layout built by members of the North Downs Model Railway Circle.

CHRÜZALP
Maurizio Tolini found an attractive Swiss N gauge layout which turned out to be mostly made with cardboard.

A.I. AS AN AID TO MODELLING
Tim Mulhall tells how ChatGPT unexpectedly assisted with a particular modelling task on his Swiss HO layout and proved to be much more useful than anticipated.

TAIL LIGHTS ON MODALOHR WAGONS
Jacques Poré shows how he enhanced intermodal vehicles from LS Models by adding working end-of-train lights.

A PLASTERED BUILDING
Michel Altorf-van der Kuil explains how he created a cottage with rendered walls for a French HO layout.

RUE DES ÉTOILES
A micro layout in HO with much detail and animation – Michael Kohler and Philipp Gerber combined their skills to model a typical village street somewhere in France.

TETSUDO + SANKEI
Made to be easily portable – Peter McConnell created a cosmopolitan Z gauge layout with a Japanese flavour.


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