Hello,

during the last few days I continued with the work on my narrrow gauge layout. I applied some static gras, and planted some seamoss trees. I also poured in the water in the little creek. I used my method of applying window color cristall clear contour paint. Usually these works quite well, but these time I think I have applied the layers to thick. Now the water looks a bit milky.

Hello,

During the christmas holiday season I scratchbuilt a wagon turntable for my 009 gauge layout. These turntable will serve my future Whisky distillery on my Isle of Skye Railway Mk2. In these Youtube tutorial I will show you how to build the turntable with 1mm and 0.5mm styrene sheet, some rail offcuts, superglue and plastic cement. The turntable is not motorised or powerd, but could be turned by hand. During the filming I had some problems with the autofocus of my camera, and I had to find a good cameraposition for filming how to tutorials.

Hello,

during the christmas time and the first weekends in January a friend of mine held the so called Silvester Layout operating session during that time. The time period is set to 1919 just before the founding of the DRG (Deutsch Reichsbahn Gesellschaft, Impirial German Railway Society). Most of the layout is assembled with modules built to the FREMO N-RE standards. Enjoy the video.

Hello,

today I uploaded the December Update to Youtube. During the last few months not much happend to my modelrailroad projects. But last October some friends and I spend a weekend in Berlin to built about 20 curved modules to FREMO N-RE standards. After these I spend a few days in the Harz Mountain region and took a trip on the HSB (Harzer Schmalspurbahn) from Gernrode to Wernigerode and back.

Hello, it's been some time since my last update on my G&D plan. Due to the housemove last year I had to scrap the beginnings of my Sorethroat Branchline Mk2 layout. I was only able to start tracklaying in the fiddle yard. But now with some time gone I started on planing the new version. The new layout should be a homage to John Allens layout. But with less space,  I don't want to copy his layout. So I set my layout further north. So in the Northern Californian or Oregon area. My room is roughly 4x4 meters.

Today I recorded a new episode of News from my modelrailway room. These time entirely focused on my 009 Isle of Skye Railway.

During the last two weeks I spend some time on my small modular narrow gauge layout. First I built the stationbuilding, which is made from two Wills kits, which I joined together. The yesterday I started with the construction of the platform. But before these could start I had to think about the turnout at the end of my station because the Caboose Industries switchthrows would interfere with the platform. So after some thinking I came to the conclusion to modifiy the switchthrow. Now I can't use the bar on top of it to change the turnout, but the polaritiyswitch still could be used.

Hello,

during the last two weeks I built the backdrop for the Lochdubh part of my layout. And here is the result.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/67757252@N07/48699717942/in/album-72157695...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/67757252@N07/48699544836/in/album-72157695...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/67757252@N07/48699544751/in/album-72157695...

First you could see an overview, and now some detailshots.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/67757252@N07/48699717632/in/album-72157695...

Hello,

it's been some time since my last update. In May I held the first operating session in the new basement. These time my friend Daniel did the filming. After the session I had a little flooding in the layout room during a thunderstorm, but I've got lucky and only a bit of the scenery was harmed, The baseboards and electrics weren't harmed.

So here is the video from the operating session. Enjoy.