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Ian Holmes

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  1. It's #modelrailwaymonday and that means a new video blogchat on my YouTube channel. Including a new scenic Train storage set up. If you don't watch this video you will miss the most important development in micro layouts in the last seven days :D https://youtu.be/cfGjqgPsVMY
  2. It's #modelrailwaymonday and time for another blogchat. This time I've built the station platform for my Wingham Canterbury Road model out of foam core board. https://youtu.be/ZosIxETTUpA
  3. Lordy Lord! I've been so bad at posting updates to the YouTube channel. Since that last post a couple of months ago I've built a station building, and a goods shed too. There's even a station platform build on the way. You'd best head over to the channel and check this and all the others out. Ian
  4. The station building takes shape -A blogchat about how I made the station building for my 7mm scale layout Ian
  5. Thank you for sending your layout in for publication. Without the contributors there wouldn't be a magazine Ian
  6. The Spring Issue of The Micro Model Railway Dispatch is available to download https://micromodelrailwaydispatch.com
  7. A video blogchat about fitting the Gauge O guild exhibition layout into the model railway room. It might involve the wanton destruction of previous layouts Ian
  8. Nobody noticed apparently but the video I uploaded the other day about creating a fictional railway didn't upload in its entirety. So here's part 2
  9. In this weeks blog chat, I talk about how I created the fictional East Lincolnshire Light Railway. The basis of my 2025 Gauge O Guild virtual exhibition layout. Ian
  10. I'm so excited by some discoveries in the research phase of my layout design that I posted another video blog a few days early https://youtu.be/f_8155JWAkY
  11. This new video blog update concerns the first stages of how I design and build a micro layout. This is for an O scale layout but this is the process I use for all my layout design
  12. This weeks video blog update concerns the first part of designing my Gauge O Guild virtual exhibition layout. Ian
  13. A couple of days ago a request went out for people to consider layouts for the above show. I thought to myself. "I can do that". In this first blog entry for the project I outline my first thoughts Ian
  14. An unboxing from Ellis Clark Trains. Packing and wrapping above and beyond.
  15. The weekly report from my 0 scale micro layout https://iansmicrolayouts.blogspot.com/2024/01/more-from-inspiration-point.html
  16. It's called Micro Model Railway Dispatches to separate itself from the magazine Its at https://www.youtube.com/@MicroModelRailwayDispatch Ian
  17. Yes, you're not wrong there. I'm sure I'll be able to find a way around that. 🤔 Tree foliage does get shaped by the repeated passage of vehicles by them. Ian
  18. Some thoughts about a scenic break https://iansmicrolayouts.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-report-from-inspiration-point.html
  19. A short video update progress report on my O scale micro
  20. A Boxcar waits at the warehouse on my O scale US outline micro layout Ian
  21. Some random thoughts on my blog today about how we perceive realism in our models. I don't know if there's any optometrists/opticians out there who can offer a simpler interpretation of my ramblings. https://iansmicrolayouts.blogspot.com/2024/01/eye-level.html Ian
  22. What with all the upheavals this week I took time to reflect on it and how it will affect my micro layout building plans https://iansmicrolayouts.blogspot.com/2024/01/upheavals.html Ian
  23. Today a progress report on my O scale Plymouth Industrial Park Micro https://iansmicrolayouts.blogspot.com/2024/01/plymouth-industrial-park-progress-report.html
  24. Today some general model railway nostalgia prompted by James Hiltons recent blog post https://iansmicrolayouts.blogspot.com/2024/01/memories.html Ian
  25. The view block structure gets close to being finished https://iansmicrolayouts.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-dirty-wash.html Ian
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