Continental Modeller Magazine Jan - 24 Vorige editie

CONTINENTAL MODELLER January 2024

RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
DHEUNE
Rail Modélisme Châtenoyen (RMC71) introduce their current HO exhibition layout, a representation of their local station on the Chagny – Nevers line.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
A HARBOUR ON RÜGEN –
A small layout modelled according to a classic plan – Paul de Groot describes his new German HOe project, inspired by a published plan and a previous holiday visit.

FEATURES

WASCOSA WOOD WAGON
An innovative Swiss timber carrying container flat – Peter Marriott suggests some quick and easy extras to enhance a Piko HO product.

NEW WORKSHOPS AT WERNIGERODE
Making the Harzer Schmalspur Bahnen self-sufficient – Chris Sheldrake visited the recently opened new workshops for the famous metre gauge system.

BRIDGE STREET
A rather different American On30 micro layout – Dennis Higgins presents a compact design which offers switching in an urban environment.

THE LITTLE HIMALAYAN RAILWAY
A vertical slice of hill railway ‘pizza’ – Giles Perkins was inspired to model the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway and captured its essence in an ingenious OO9 layout.

A TURKISH GRAIN SILO
A typical Turkish lineside scene – Arda Tirmas created a realistic HO diorama from careful observation of the real thing augmented by research on line.

NEUSTADT, MITTELWALD, and HOCHBERG – part 4
Alan Shepherd brings us up to date with developments on his German N layout, featured in the May 2017 edition.

A JIG FOR WINDOWS
Gilbert Gribi adopted an ingenious approach to achieve consistency when ‘mass production’ was required.

MEXICO IN 1978
On the Yucatán peninsula – Peter Dale presents more of the slides which document his travels for work to places mostly off the tourist trail at the time.

PROJECT Z
First steps in layout building – Rick Pullin used lockdown to start a table-top layout which soon grew an extension.


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