Australian Model Railway Magazine

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O scale micro layouts

Having just read the great article on micro layouts and being an O scale modeller, I couldn’t help feeling that they would be so much better in O scale, with generally better running and more realism while still remaining very manageable. The Gauge O Guild in UK offers Small Layouts books for additional inspiration for modellers without much room.

Richard Leeder Trentham Vic

We agree with your comments, micro layouts are inspirational and scale diversity is important, we would like to publish more O scale articles. We are currently working on a location to model which will suit a micro layout in O scale, stay tuned! – Editor

Editor’s comment: Is it time for Exhibition diversity?

I agree with what is said about shorter exhibitions and would like to offer a suggestion. I’m assuming model railways don’t have the attraction

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