JohnC on December 5th, 2008

Here are some more photos Gilbert Gribi sent me of his layout Les Mages which featured in Loco Review in January & March 2000 (see O14 in the News). Further details can be found on his website here: Les Mages

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JohnC on December 2nd, 2008

Gilbert Gribi has sent me a drawing of his hopper cars as featured on his La Vernarède layout which is exclusively available here: tremie (PDF). Note you may have to print this out twice full size to get correct 7mm scale.

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matthieu on November 25th, 2008

Francois Gilbert and Matthieu Jacquemart, two French modellers, have built this layout.
The products from KBscale influenced them to make a layout in this scale, with a little help from Bernard Daillan of the escadrille Saint Michel !
Here is some pictures of this layout, you can see our website here
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David on November 7th, 2008

Bernard has sent photos of his recently completed Deutz OMZ 117 kits from KBscale – one has been modified to represent an open cab version.
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Stephen on October 30th, 2008

Some photos of this unique and very attractive O14 layout, exhibited at ExpoNG 2008 by Jack Treves. It depicts an industrial railway supplying a sugar factory with beets to process, and is built inside three large suitcases. Small bridging sections connect each case together and, aside from the backscenes in the case lids, it is [...]

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JohnC on October 19th, 2008

Examples of track on my slowly gestating Pentewan Light Railway and as shown in the articles in Narrow Gauge & Industrial Modelling Review – now available for download on this site here
Note that in my history the Pentewan was rebuilt in the 1920s as a 1′ 11½” line using ex-WD equipment and managed to survive [...]

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JohnC on October 18th, 2008

Gilbert Gribi is a narrow gauge modeller who lives near Lausanne in Switzerland and has made several stunning layouts in various gauges and scales including an O14 model of La Vernarède (a real village in the South of France). He has given me permission to feature some photos of it here. See here for details [...]

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steamystef on October 1st, 2008

Some photos of my last work: a small workshop along an industrial track.  The track is ‘hand built’ and the ‘Workshop’ is made of woods, paperboard covered with plaster. The others piece are home made like the oil station and the lighting.

The track and especially, the turnout
The oil station, two drums in aluminium, some plaster, [...]

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Stephen on September 30th, 2008

A few photos of this exquisite small layout by the French club Escadrille St. Michel. 14mm gauge track is used throughout but there is also a section of dual gauge using 18mm. The pictures were taken at ExpoNG 2007.
Le Petit Depot – O14/O18 layout by Escadrille St Michel
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Stephen on September 24th, 2008

Arthur Budd has set up a website for his O14 layout, The Brickworks. The article first appeared in the 7mm Narrow Gauge Association magazine Narrow Lines but it’s great to now have an online record of it. Arthur is also promising updates to come on his new home layout, Wigmore.
Arthur’s site

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