Category: Model trains
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The Static Show Vs The Mobile One – Part Three – On Showmanship
Does your little World move? Does it need to? I’ve written elsewhere about the vitality your structure needs according to whether you are still a child or have been burdened with age. You decide where you are on the spectrum. If you actually do need to have something move in front of you, consider several hobbies:…
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The Big Layout Vs The Small Layout – Part Two – On Scale Planning
We’ve discussed scale before and the way that different hobbies and different manufacturers fiddle and footle when it comes to deciding measurements for model building. Everyone goes their own way and demands that you follow. Well, the thing you’re going to have to do when contemplating your Little World is to decide which scale you…
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The Baseroom Layout Vs The Train Set – Part One – On Planning Your Little World
My recent annual foray to the Western Australian Model Railway Exhibition was fresh in my mind as I set to work planning out my hobby room at the Little Studio. When you see what others do, you can either get good ideas or bad ones. I hope I have observed well and drawn the correct…
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Peeping Dick
Well, I can’t be Peeping Tom or Peeping Harry. But I got my share of looking into other people’s lives at the Model Railway Exhibition. It was courtesy of the Haltwhistle boys – a group of modellers who set up a British-outline OO-guage layout. It was a looping layout with a front and two sides…
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Oddly Enough – It’s Not The Trains…
My annual visit to the model rail exhibition was a resounding success – here in Western Australia it amounts to a trade show and swapmeet as much as it is a pure exhibition…and everyone benefits. And it was somewhat of an eye-opener for a student of Little Worlds: a. It was very well attended –…
The Little World 