Passenger depot improvements for the HO scale Petra Pizza micro layout. Since I built the Petra Pizza layout, the Petra Depot area was a fairly basic ground level gravel area with a shed. In the last few weeks I had a growing desire to do something to improve the scene. Read more…
A petite Plymouth for the HO scale Petra Pizza micro layout means no more large 4 axle diesels locos need to be used for motive power. For some time now I have wanted to find some motive power for the Petra Pizza micro layout that better suits the short trains Read more…
Scenery progress on my HO scale micro tropical layout went slowly at first, but progress has sped up more recently. Since the last post about my Tropical Pizza layout, which technically is probably not really a “pizza” layout as it doesn’t have a continuous loop of track, I have been Read more…
Recently I added some name boards to my various model railroad micro layouts. I had purchased some MDF letters in a department store some time ago, before I actually started building the micro layouts I now have. And as I like to add name boards to my layouts, I thought Read more…
Making a HO scale micro pizza model railway layout to be more earth-like for scale sized citizens, plentiful plants and realistic railroads rendering. Terraforming is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying something to make it more Earth-like, usually to make it habitable by Earth-like life. It is something that to Read more…
Left over scenery items, spare space, and left over insulation foam becomes the basis for a tropical themed HO scale micro layout. With the left over bamboo, palm trees, and agave plants purchased for the Brazilian Micro Layout, and a fairly large amount of XPS insulation foam left over from Read more…
Continuing conversion of single model railroad to multiple micro modules in HO scale. Following the Pizza Layout reaching operational status and it’s scenery being more or less finished (except for extra detailing work), I recently got the Box Street 4×1 feet micro layout operational and some basic scenery completed on Read more…
Big model railroad layouts equal big headaches to move, small or micro layouts lessen the brain strain! With the possibility of a house move, even a long distance one, always threatening on the horizon, I had only recently finished the scenery changes to an extension to my Dolton / Illinook Read more…