Scenery progresses nicely on my HO scale 2-in-1 “Petra” and “The Nook” double inglenook switching layout. Following a month of fairly consistent albeit slow progress on the scenery of this layout, the layout was ready to be put in place in our living space. Most of the track has been Read more…
It’s been a while since the last blog post, but that does not mean there have been no layout improvements. After spending quite a bit of time on improvements to my various other micro layouts over the previous year, I thought it was time to improve the look of the Read more…
Since I built the HO scale Box Street micro industrial switching layout, I have had a number of structures at the front of the layout, between the track and the front edge of the layout. When I placed them there, I felt it was a good way to add a Read more…
Anyone who has explored the late Carl Arendt’s micro layouts themed website will probably have happened upon a page or small layout scrapbook featuring layouts in boxes of various sizes, as small as a pencil case box. Model railways in small boxes, around shoe box in size, are quite common Read more…
A few weeks ago, I read a post on RM Web about a new Model Railway magazine / ezine called “The Micro Model Railway Dispatch“. Unlike most model railroad magazines / ezines, this new publication is dedicated to micro model railways, which are model railroad layouts that are 4 square Read more…
Shortening of the caboose used for passenger trains on the Tropical Pizza HO scale micro layout makes car movements easier. In the previous post I described a 22 scale feet flat car that I converted from a 22 foot ore hopper that suffered a mishap. I also mentioned that I Read more…
Tropical palm and fern trees and some people add more life to a verdant tropical island HO scale micro layout. Since the last blog post about my Tropical Pizza layout, I have received and added tropical trees to the layout. I also found some HO size people to add to 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…
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…