Continental Modeller Magazine November 2025 Back Issue

RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
DOLMNY
A small passing station on a Belgian cross-country route – Mark Hauer of the BELUX model railway group introduces their modular HO exhibition layout.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
BRÜNIG
Michael Haine describes his Swiss HO loft layout which features standard and metre gauge trackage, the latter a less frequently modelled line.

SCALE DRAWINGS
STATION GARAGE
Gilbert Gribi shows how he built an attractive structure in 1:43.5 which could be adapted for other scales and different settings.


FEATURES

ADDING LIFE WITH SMALL DETAILS
Emmanuel Nouaillier demonstrates more of his techniques for intricately detailed structure modelling, showing how small details can add life to a scene.

BELMONT, WASHINGTON
Somewhere In the Pacific north-west – Nick Palette describes his latest HO exhibition layout, worked with Northern Pacific and Great Northern locos. It will be at the Nottingham exhibition this month.

OVER THE TOP
Scenes on the War Department Light Railways in 1:35 – Peter Hollins explains how his son’s homework project developed into a First World War layout.

LONG TRAINS THROUGH BELGIUM
Dries Reubens describes his N gauge layout, designed to display long trains of authentic stock simply running through the landscape.

DETAILING A TIMBER WAGON
A few simple steps toward improved realism – Peter Marriott makes some quick and easy modifications to detail a Roco HO type Rs bogie flat wagon.

HEL PENINSULA and SOPOT
Janusz Labuda and Paweł Koob combined two HO layouts representing authentic Polish scenes for presentation at the OntraXS! exhibition in Utrecht in March 2025.

OUT WEST
Luke Roberts presents a compact American On30 layout set in the late 1880s serving Colorado mines and logging.

INDIAN 2' GAUGE
Peter Dale explored the sub-continent in the late 1980s and was able to visit Gwalior and Matheran.