Category Archives: Exhibitions

Miniatur Wonderland – 5 – USA and snow

Thanks, Allan for all these excellent photographs. The exhibition is slowly moving out of mainland Europe, as the scenes from the USA show.  And there’s lots of snow around in places.  Very difficult to model well, but this looks pretty … Continue reading

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Miniatur Wunderland – 4 – Rural and coastal

Mainly pictures out in the countryside and down by the sea…..

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Miniatur Wunderland, Hamburg – 3 – Mainly urban

Mainly urban pictures today…. Now that’s what I call an accident…..

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ESNG Exhibition 2016 – a PS

As I noted a month or so ago, Ian and Lily, who did such a good job last year on the catering, escaped to a family wedding in Malaysia, then holiday in Hong Kong and China.  I wrote them a quick … Continue reading

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ESNG Exhibition 2016 #5

The last couple of years the show has had a mix of modular layouts, and mostly smallish standalone layouts that the visitor could imagine building themselves.  Apart from Leonard, mentioned earlier, we had a number of other layouts on show…… … Continue reading

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ESNG Exhibition 2016 #4

Today we’ll have a look at the rest of the modular layouts. Not quite modular, but more (large) table top was Paul Rowlatt’s Kato Racetrack.  Up to eight bullet trains could be in motion at any one time.  This is … Continue reading

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ESNG Exhibition 2016 #3

One pleasure of our annual show is meeting up with old friends.  Some visitors come back year by year, others we know from other clubs.  It’s even better when work colleagues or neighbours accept my invites to the show and … Continue reading

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ESNG Exhibition 2016 #2

Today, a few pictures from the ESNG N-mod layout.  Most years, we’ve put together a continuous run layout.  However, in 2016, I was having some difficulty thinking how to fit in Azusa Mills, that is an L-shaped layout (pictures in … Continue reading

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ESNG Exhibition 2016 #1

Well, another year done and dusted!  This year’s show seems to have gone off well enough.  We’ve had more visitors than last year, put a few pennies in the club coffers, and received plenty of positive feedback about the show … Continue reading

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London Festival of Railway Modelling – 2016 – #3

My final post on ‘Ally Pally’ is to look at O gauge, the ‘senior scale.’  There seems to be a vogue for O gauge shunting layouts at present.  The Model Railway Club’s Happisburgh Goods (pronounced ‘Haze-burr’) models a Great Eastern … Continue reading

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