Category: Philden Beach

The sweet new addition

My layout is once more feeling ‘sweet-as’ following the arrival of my new Auscision Models C44ACI locomotive in the attractive Aurizon ‘pineapple’ livery, (pineapple field added for effect). Although you would be forgiven for describing the yellow loco…

Farewelling my Noughties locos

Time doesn’t stand still, and sometimes by taking that approach into our modelling we can instill a sense of modelled history on our layouts. After moving-on some model locomotives last month so that I could afford some new camera gear, I have seemingl…

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…

G… 2023 went fast!

It only seems like a few weeks ago that I turned my inner-Melbourne HO scale shelf layout into a slice of the NSW North Coast. Now here we are at the beginning of another hot Australian summer, and while looking through some of the photos I had snapped…

Removing the tram tracks

One of the trickier tasks I faced with transforming the setting of my inner-Melbourne HO Scale shelf layout to the NSW North Coast, was removing the tram tracks that once ran down the middle of the Philden Street overpass. They were anchored down to th…

The Jetty Hotel refit

It’s time to catch-up on some of the improvements that have occurred since Philden Beach made it’s exhibition debut back in September of this year. To complete my NSW North Coast setting, the square shell of a structure that sat atop the overpass looki…

C by the Seashore

There’s something new to see by the seashore on Philden Coast. And that is the new Auscision Models C Class in the Cootes Industrial Greentrains inspired green and gold livery. And crikey! Isn’t she a gorgeous sight to see?The Auscision C Class mo…