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Exhibition Diary • Dates, events, and information

Dolmny On an assumed Belgian cross-country route • Mark Hauer of the BELUX model railway group introduces their modular HO exhibition layout.

Making a scene come alive It is not a matter of size! • Emmanuel Nouaillier illustrates more of his techniques for detailed structure modelling.

Brünig A less modelled metre gauge subject • Michael Haine describes his Swiss loft layout.

Station garage An attractive structure • Gilbert Gribi offers ideas for structure modelling, with scale drawings.

Belmont, Washington In the Pacific north-west • Nick Palette describes his latest exhibition layout. It will be at the Nottingham show in November 2025.

Over the top Scenes on the War Department Light Railways • Peter Hollins explains how a First World War homework project developed into a layout.

Long trains through Belgium An ambition achieved • Dries Reubens describes his layout, deliberately designed to display long trains of authentic stock simply running through the landscape. The layout can host stock of different periods – here classic SNCB/NMBS diesels and electrics.

Loaded timber wagon A few simple steps toward improved realism • Peter Marriott makes some quick and easy detail modifications to a type Rs bogie flat wagon.

Hel Peninsula and Sopot Two authentic Polish scenes • Janusz Labuda and Paweł Koob combined two layouts for presentation at the OntraXS! exhibition in Utrecht in March 2025.

Out West Serving mines and logging • Luke Roberts presents a compact layout set in Colorado in the late 1800s.

Indian 2' gauge Gwalior and Matheran in the late 1980s • Peter Dale explored the sub-continent beyond the famous Darjeeling Himalayan.

Making conifers For the Ardennes forest • Luc de Martelaer shows how he scratchbuilt the trees for his new exhibition layout, Chaleux, which was featured in CM October 2025.

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