Abstract: Physical model test is one of the most important means for scientific researching of rock and soil mechanics and engineering geology. Optical fiber sensing(OFS) is a testing technology which possesses the specialty of high accuracy, real-time, distributed and parallel. The establishment of physical model test with OFS method promotes the progress of experimental modelling technique, and provides a more precisely reliable and entirely meticulous scientific instruction for field practicing and construction. This paper lists the most commonly used techniques of physical model test with OFS.Its progress in five main engineering areas of rock mechanics and engineering is reviewed. The key application issues that structural forms and technologies of temperature compensation, optical fiber sensors calibration and layout are analyzed. The correlations among optical fiber, physical model, and different layouts techniques are discussed. The research of multiple sizes and multi-source information model test with OFS will be a hotspot of indoor experimental modelling in rock and soild mechanics and engineering geology.