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ESNG on the road #3
We’ll start our look at the larger scale layouts at the Gaugemaster show, with Allenton in HO. Just 6′ of shunting layout, with a timewaster Timesaver track plan. Somewhere in deepest Cotton Belt territory, a Southern Pacific switcher is hard … Continue reading
ESNG on the road #2
Today we’ll look at the small scale models at the Gaugemaster show. First off is the N gauge layout Kayreuth. A regular on the exhibition circuit, Kayreuth is a modern image German layout set in western Germany. There are multiple tracks … Continue reading
ESNG on the road #1
It’s Monday night, and I’m still slightly shattered after a weekend exhibiting with ESNG at the Gaugemaster show. The Gaugemaster model store holds this free exhibition every other year. The show is at Ford, near Arundel, near Ford open prison, … Continue reading
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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Miniatur Wonderland, Hamburg – 2 – the airport
The airport is a highlight of the exhibition. It has everything, and it all works…. From Zeppelins…. To an air show…. To EasyJet (I was on one of those yesterday)….. To landings that really happen….. To taxiways full of moving … Continue reading
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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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