Continental Modeller  |  January 2026
RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
WIESENBERG
A branch terminus in a typical Brandenburg landscape – Jörg Krause introduces his German HO exhibition layout, which was only intended to be an interim project.
PLAN OF THE MONTH
NOIRMOUT-EN-RETZ
Olivier Taniou describes his latest layout, a venture into O – a new scale and gauge for him – capturing the atmosphere of a small coastal port.
FEATURES
BRICKWORK
Emmanuel Nouaillier demonstrates more of his techniques for intricately detailed structure modelling, showing how to simulate the texture of weathered bricks.
PATIALA MONORAIL
Peter Dale chartered the Patiala State Monorail Tramway preserved at the Delhi railway museum.
FUSINE – LAGHI
A border station in the eastern Alps – Luca Klobas presents a diorama reproducing a now disappeared cross border railway between Italy and Jugoslavia.
CHEYNE JUNCTION 2
Expanding a successful design – Roddy Mullin describes his new portable Z gauge layout.
CONSOLIDATED NICKEL MINES
Mario Alberto Scarati and Bice Luigia Carabelli describe their unusual HO exhibition layout, an automated mine located in the south-west of the USA.
CHÂTEAU LÉMAN
Yann Monbaron introduces the HO layout of Alain Manzoni, a freelance setting between Switzerland and France which features standard and metre gauge lines.
SUGAR BEET LOAD
Another consignment for making Swiss chocolate – Peter Marriott enhances a Roco HO type Eas bogie open using techniques that could be applied to other stock.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Continental Modeller January 2026.