Category: commentary

The full circle moment

Coffs Harbour Railway Station. September 2024.Sometimes a modeler’s hobby and personal life come together in a full circle moment. For myself, another holiday in Coffs Harbour has come and gone, and while I never meant to grow old, age has quietly crep…

Lazing by the Sea

A C Class has returned to the seaside!Nearing the end of a difficult to navigate 2024, my beach layout has had a happy face return to the roster in the form of the Auscision Models C Class locomotive. My original C Class model C509 in the Cootes Indust…

Plastic Bags and Piddly Bits!

I wonder how many complaints erupted on social media over this eBay listing without people first clicking on the item details to read the description I wrote.I don’t know why, but sometimes I just do. After reconfiguring my former cement plant to fit o…

Into a New Era

Ready for a new era on The Philden Model Railway Blog.It is time to usher in a new era on The Philden Model Railway Blog. Since starting this blog back in May 2015, this site has always been undergoing constant improvement, much like my modelling skill…

7 Dollar Flash Sale

This week I have uploaded over one-hundred-and-seventy bundled listings on eBay at the price of $7 each, posted free anywhere in Australia. Along with that, I have dropped the prices on the rest of my listings, including some antique railway signs, new…

Layout Revamp Video Review

My book review in the March 2024 Australian Model Railway News!How the year has flown. We’re in April already, but it still only feels like the beginning of the year! From the excitement of knowing my book Revamp An Existing Layout was queued for print…

2024 TOP 10 ranking

It’s time to ask ourselves that annual question… “where did January go?” (Although to be honest, I’m still asking myself where 2023 disappeared to?) However, after a year which saw more changes in my modelling preferences and circumstances than perha…

The Summer of regrowth…

It has been a summer of regrowth on Philden Beach. Both literally and metaphorically. Exactly one year after starting down the path of converting my HO scale Australian shelf layout from its former inner-city Melbourne setting to a slice of railfan par…