Ian Holmes

I keep putting off baseboard construction...

Ian

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

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

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

The station building takes shape -A blogchat about how I made the station building for my 7mm scale layout

Ian

1 hour ago, brynnydd said:

The FLR was very kindly featured in this year's spring issue of the Micro Model Railway Dispatch on page 58.

 

 

Thank you Ian for all your great work in creating this lovely magazine.

Thank you for sending your layout in for publication. Without the contributors there wouldn't be a magazine 

Ian

The Spring Issue of The Micro Model Railway Dispatch is available to download  https://micromodelrailwaydispatch.com

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

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

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

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

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

This weeks video blog update concerns the first part of designing my Gauge O Guild virtual exhibition layout.

Ian

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

An unboxing from Ellis Clark Trains. Packing and wrapping above and beyond.

The weekly report from my 0 scale micro layout https://iansmicrolayouts.blogspot.com/2024/01/more-from-inspiration-point.html

It's called Micro Model Railway Dispatches to separate itself from the magazine 

Its at https://www.youtube.com/@MicroModelRailwayDispatch

Ian

3 hours ago, F-UnitMad said:

Trees can be quite effective view blockers, I used some to hide the exit on my old portable layout....

 

Your challenge is the lack of width between the track & baseboard edge... 🤔👍

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

Some thoughts about a scenic break https://iansmicrolayouts.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-report-from-inspiration-point.html

A short video update progress report on my O scale micro

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

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

Today a progress report on my O scale Plymouth Industrial Park Micro https://iansmicrolayouts.blogspot.com/2024/01/plymouth-industrial-park-progress-report.html

Today some general model railway nostalgia prompted by James Hiltons recent blog post https://iansmicrolayouts.blogspot.com/2024/01/memories.html

Ian