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ESNG on the road #1

Posted on September 7, 2016 by snitchthebudgie

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 →

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Miniatur Wonderland – 5 – USA and snow

Posted on June 23, 2016 by snitchthebudgie

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

Posted on June 21, 2016 by snitchthebudgie

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

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Miniatur Wunderland, Hamburg – 3 – Mainly urban

Posted on June 19, 2016 by snitchthebudgie

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

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Miniatur Wonderland, Hamburg – 2 – the airport

Posted on June 17, 2016 by snitchthebudgie

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

Posted on April 24, 2016 by snitchthebudgie

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

Posted on April 20, 2016 by snitchthebudgie

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

Posted on April 18, 2016 by snitchthebudgie

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

Posted on April 16, 2016 by snitchthebudgie

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

Posted on April 14, 2016 by snitchthebudgie

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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