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    The Impossible Layout

    May 19, 2020 3 minutes
    Photos by the author.

    The idea of attempting an interpretation of at least a portion of Darling Harbour (circa 1950) within an envelope of only 4.4m x 450mm might easily be described as ‘impossible’, even absurd… especially as I model in O scale!

    Being fascinated by the complexity of Darling Harbour and the opportunity that it would provide to model an urban environment was one thing, but would this be a step too far? How could such an enormous location be modelled with any reasonable chance of success?

    The Darling Harbour branch was

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