Club & Members Layouts
Mickelton by Micheal Hodder HO Scale
Mickleton is a freelance layout based on places and buildings around Victoria. The layout has three mainlines running everything from Steam to Late Diesels and rolling stock. This layout is designed with a steel frame for easy handling, setup and transportation, with Peco track work and is DDC controlled.
Mickleton is a freelance layout based on places and buildings around Victoria. The layout has three mainlines running everything from Steam to Late Diesels and rolling stock. This layout is designed with a steel frame for easy handling, setup and transportation, with Peco track work and is DDC controlled.
The Club Layout - On30 Scale
Port Franklin (what it could have been) as built with a touch of Modellers License!
Modelled from original photos, plans and information of the tramways, trains and surroundings from all over Australia.
Port Franklin is actually a small fishing village in Victoria, Australia. It is about 2 km inland from the coastline of Corner Inlet. Port
Franklin is situated on the banks of the Franklin River between Toora and Foster.
It was serviced by a small tramway connecting to the South Gippsland Broad gauge line to Port Albert. The river is lined with small commercial fishing boats, privately owned pleasure craft as well as commercial charter vessels. Layouts track was laid using Peco On30 track work directly onto the Karnff Foam board. and sisulation paper covered with gapfiller, paint, soil, sticks, dried plants and
scenic fibres mixtures. The carved Foam we found makes excellent rock formations.
The layout is controlled by Heathcote Electronics Train Control Systems on DC power.
Club members have restored and utilised a lot of the buildings and the Saw Mill from the old Mount Ash layout that was original built by John Hunter, as well as scratch built and kit bashed others and a couple of Outback Model company kits. With Port Franklin set in the early to mid 1900’s, we have tried to obtain the feel of the life and times, that our pioneers faced in the rugged terrain to obtain the resources from the forests and development of rural communities into prosperity. The little scenes throughout the layout all tell a part of this story.
Modelled from original photos, plans and information of the tramways, trains and surroundings from all over Australia.
Port Franklin is actually a small fishing village in Victoria, Australia. It is about 2 km inland from the coastline of Corner Inlet. Port
Franklin is situated on the banks of the Franklin River between Toora and Foster.
It was serviced by a small tramway connecting to the South Gippsland Broad gauge line to Port Albert. The river is lined with small commercial fishing boats, privately owned pleasure craft as well as commercial charter vessels. Layouts track was laid using Peco On30 track work directly onto the Karnff Foam board. and sisulation paper covered with gapfiller, paint, soil, sticks, dried plants and
scenic fibres mixtures. The carved Foam we found makes excellent rock formations.
The layout is controlled by Heathcote Electronics Train Control Systems on DC power.
Club members have restored and utilised a lot of the buildings and the Saw Mill from the old Mount Ash layout that was original built by John Hunter, as well as scratch built and kit bashed others and a couple of Outback Model company kits. With Port Franklin set in the early to mid 1900’s, we have tried to obtain the feel of the life and times, that our pioneers faced in the rugged terrain to obtain the resources from the forests and development of rural communities into prosperity. The little scenes throughout the layout all tell a part of this story.
The Club Layout - HO & HOn2 1/2
The 7.2 metres x 3.3 metres club layout is under construction, it has a large station, engine terminal, goods yard with branch line and industries. The branch line has a dual gauge station with a narrow gauge spur line supplying it with timber and stone.
See the drop down menu above for Faller Cars @ GMR for more insights to our club layout.
Sorry, they are not the best photos.
See the drop down menu above for Faller Cars @ GMR for more insights to our club layout.
Sorry, they are not the best photos.
Mount Ash - On30
This layout no longer exists and was extended and reworked into the newly named Port Franklin which is now the clubs premier exhibition layout built to travel to other exhibitions and is already receiving accolades from modellers and the general public. It runs autonomously with three locos indenturing and exiting the two scenes at either end. - see below
Powelltown by Colin Konig - Australian HOn2 1/2
Powelltwon is a model displaying the rugged terrain in which the railways and tramways had to cover to extract the timber and raw materials to supply the complex mills and industry early last century. The scenery is made from canite, gap filler and paint base on L girder bench work, with addition of ground foams and fibers natural plants, twigs and soils. Most models and trains are scratch built.
Burktown and Hill Quarry Railway By David Burkhill - British OO & OOn2 1/2
HO & narrow gauge freelance British in a rural setting with canal & lock gates. Catch a train at Burktown Station then change at Quarry Hill Halt to ride the narrow gauge to the old quarry. Afternoon tea at the Tower Tearooms.
Somewhere Creek By Stuart Cray - HO layout
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By David Burkhill - N Scale
By David Burkhill - N Scale
Colinsville By Colin Konig HOn2 1/2 scale - A fictitious river port Australian town with incredible detail and cameo scenes dotted throughout.