Meldon West

Being born in the ‘80s, my early memories are of my grandparents taking me to London. The favourite part of my day was the journey on British Rail and I’d often come home with a roll of 35mm film full of trains and track details.

Before embarking on my first exhibition layout, a big inspiration for me was seeing models created by Chris Nevard. I really liked his use of small spaces, showing that you didn’t need to have a huge space to create something detailed and interesting. I was also inspired by ‘Arun Quay’ in O gauge by Gordon Gravett. The detail is astounding and I thought it would be a good challenge to aim for that amount of detail in N gauge. There were also a few techniques I liked and wanted to try, so I decided a small layout would allow me to test those without worrying that Id ruin a large model or waste a lot of money if it all went