Voie Libre international

Discover every three months in this international issue of Voie Libre in english, new products reviews, layout descriptions, model building, historical information on secondary lines and prototypes...

Voie Libre international

CREATION

SCHMALSPURBEDARF BB L45 H, NEW DECORATIONS

BACHMANN A VICTORIAN VAN

SCHMALSPURBEDARF TWO PKP BOX VANS

RÉGIONS & COMPAGNIES AN ANIMATED GARAGE

FELDBAHN FACTORY BIG WOODEN SKIPS

TOOLING AK INTERACTIVE PLAYMARKERS ACRYLIC FELT-TIPS

ALPHA ABRASIVES ABRASIVE ALLSORTS

CFTT THE VIADUCT REOPENS!

TRAIN DE L’ARDÈCHE N° 403 IS BACK

GATHERINGS

PRESS REVIEW

ARCHITECTURE & PASSION PUTS THE CHURCH IN THE MIDDLE OF THE VILLAGE • This laser-cut and engraved kit, one of the most typical buildings of our countryside, a super-star of French provinces, has just been released by Architecture & Passion in H0 scale.

Saint-Trojan-les-Bains • Taking his holidays regularly in Britanny and on the West coast of France led Robert Barnard to discover the metre gauge lines of the former Chemins de Fer Economiques company.

Summer Leaves • This sounds like a poem, and is indeed a unique and original creation, with a limited lifetime, of which Nobuo Koizumi tells us the story. An exercize in style in 0-9 scale on two sheets of wood.

Summer dresses and boaters at Le Pertuiset • Beside their city lines, tramways sometimes venture out towards tourist destinations. Such is the case for this project, imagined around a superb site: Le Pertuiset, on the territory of Unieux, in the Loire.

DRIVING CHASSIS galore • An urge to build an unusual diesel locomotive, a wish for an exotic railcar, a crunch for a rare type of steam locomotive, but no desire what what so build the driving mechanism? To help us satisfy our unmentionable passions, industrial or artisan firms have developed a wide variety of driving bogies, which should meet most of our requirements.

Drinking your cup of coffee AT PORT-DIZAN • Having completed the infrastructure of his Port Dizan microlayout, Raymond grabs a trowel and moves on to creating the buildings. He shows us how he built the Café du Port.

The Baldwin engines of the Kiso Forest Railway • Thanks to Baldwin documentation and to Toshihiko Arita’s photographs, Vincent Lepais describes narrow gauge celebrities: the 0-4-2 tank engines of the Kiso Forest Railway.

A TURNOUT… WITHOUT POINT BLADES… it’s possible! • You are not mistaken: a turnout without point blades, without wing rails, without a frog… Étienne Dubois describes a simple and easily built alternative for changing tracks. And what’s more, for a ridiculously low price.

In your workshop A STEAMPUNK machine • A good dose of imagination is sometimes sufficient to practice modelling, let us follow Alain in his demonstration.

A BOXCAR MADE OF PLASTIC SHEET? EASY! • In connection with the “2’ in Colorado” challenge organized by the Froggy Model RailRoaders Bunch association, in partnership with Voie libre, Flavio Volante shows us how to build a small and typically American boxcar.

The Woody Butte Tram Line Co • A narrow gauge line snaking between rocks and fir trees; ancient and fuming locotractors hauling rickety wagons loaded with ore along steep gradients. Such is the atmosphere that Flavio Volante decided to evoke on his small circular layout.

3D desires, discoveries & delights • Additive manufacturing — 3D printing — is a tool like any other, a great way of making things that are different, and this opens up many avenues. In substance, this is what Laurent and Éric tell us.

TOOLING AND SUPPLIES

Ga Long Biên Impressions of South-East Asia • This is a kind of logbook, a memorial to tribulations, a...