Editorial #105
Railway modelling is an incredibly rich hobby, offering its fans the widest range of choices. It is hard to compare the two layouts we review in this issue: one, hyper-realistic, is based on an in-depth historical and geographical study of the location modelled. The other, totally whimsical, offers a dreamy blend of railway and seaside atmospheres, borrowing from places as distant as the westernmost and northernmost shores of Europe! You may well say that both have in common the attractiveness of trains, the pleasure of scale modelling, the delights of scratchbuilding. True, but their universes are poles apart! At Voie Libre, we do not choose: we are demanding when it comes to realism, delighted when projects are whimsical. And our historical, documentary and modelling pages are there for everyone’s enjoyment. Have a…