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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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Miniatur Wunderland, Hamburg – 1
As hinted a few blogs ago, I’ll be taking a back seat over the next couple of weeks whilst I am away. I’ll be posting (mainly) train photos taken by Allan in Switzerland, and pictures taken in Hamburg on his … Continue reading
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Compulsive, not impulsive, communicators
Wise words from Simon Dunkley on the Erratic and Wandering Journey: In a recent email to a friend, I wondered why some people were so rude and uncivil on electronic media, and opined that hobbies are supposed to be an … Continue reading
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Letter to the editor – Two steps to save our hobby
This post is hi-jacked, with apologies, from the Model Railroad Hobbyist forum. It’s worth a read and seems to make a lot of sense to me. It’s another, if lengthy, plea for small model railways….. Letter to the Editor Reversing the Decline … Continue reading
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Model cost increases
There has been a lot of discussion recently on the price increases for ‘N’ gauge stock imposed by Graham Farish and others. There are some good thoughts in this month’s Railway Modeller from Ben Ando (of NGS and Revolution Trains … Continue reading
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Odd modelling ideas #37 – Cranes
Redhill has seen a little excitement over the past week, with the arrival of a tower crane to help build their new Sainsbury store. It involved a road closure, a certain amount of confusion, and a chance to examine some … Continue reading
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Martin’s layouts
Martin was involved in a good number of projects, and I’ve tried to describe some of his model railways below….. (Update: I’ve added the missing photos!) Corfe Castle N-gauge Layout: Martin’s home layout, not seen by many club members, is a … Continue reading
