The Coast Line RR - Diorama of the Day

Yesterday I shared some pictures from this amazing Swedish model railroad on our Facebook page and I realized how long it has been since I showed you guys anything from that corner of the hobby. My bad and I'm going to make due for that right now.

Troels Kirk is a big model railroad fan and have been into the hobby for a long time. He is also a extraordinary model builder and his layout really shows. I'm really amazed by all the beautiful scenes he has created on the railroad and I only wish I could get an overview of the full size of the layout. Check out the cool pictures and see what you think. If you wish to see more, please visit the layout, either on Facebook or on YouTube.

-Kasper Fischer

Crossing the bridge over troubled waters.

A well hidden aircraft for the pioneers.

Dock side at the train station.

"Tour de France" in 1/87 scale

by Michael Rieß


I saw this diorama on the exhibition "Faszination Modellbau Friedrichshafen 2011". In my opinion it is one of the best dioramas i have ever seen. Despite the very small scale it looks almost photo-realistic and the sheer amount of details is stunning. Enjoy!

Faszination Modellbau Friedrichshafen 2011 - H0

by Michael Rieß

This time i will show you some H0 railways and landscapes. These large constructions are made with great attention to detail and are very sophisticated. I stood a long time infront of them and spotted small and funny details again and again.

How to weather model railroad - Part 2

by Kasper fischer

Scalemodelmedic, better known as Jon Hayward, has finally released the second video in his series on how to weather model trains. Jon has really gone to town on this boxcar and the graffiti is really looking good. A third video is in the making and will be highly anticipated here.

Visit Jon Hayward on YouTube by clicking this link.

A Railroad Project (update)

by Kasper Fischer

The rust was done using Oil paints and odorless petroleum.

This is a project for a YouTube friend and it's my first fully painted model railroad construction. Unfortunately the kit isn't really that well detailed and adding that to the model is to big a task, so I'm leaving the inside as is. It will be painted but I'm not doing any gap filling or detailing. This project is actually all about weathering and graffiti. I want to try airbrushing the graffiti on the walls but I struggle to get my airbrush to function proper. 

The rust on the doors was/is a nightmare. I left them in direct sunlight in the window for over a week and the oil-paint hasn't dried completely yet. This has prevented me from working on the inside of the doors and I have only done the outside. If I have to wait another week for the second layer to dry too I will properly run AMOK in the streets of Kopenhagen.

Hopefully I will get some work done on this project over the weekend.

I only want 3 regular gables so I had to scratch build one.

I have to blend the 2 colours together but base cote done.

It took over a week in direct sun-light to dry.

I have to be really careful not to damage my work.

Test-fitting the doors just to see how they look. 

All Happy!

Hamburg Miniature Wunderland

by Kasper Fischer

Hamburg Miniature Wunderland is one of the worlds most impressive models in the world. It's actually also one of Germany's most visited tourist attractions. Unfortunately it's not so well know in the model world. Just the amount of scratch-build models they had to produce to make Knuffingen Airport is simply mind blowing. For all of you guys that don't know what I'm on about, I have included their official introduction video.

Following the construction of the airport has really got me excited to see it IRL so I have decided to visit. The second weekend in September I will go to Hamburg and see it with my own eyes and keeping in the right spirit, I bought train tickets. I will remember to bring the video camera and make a report for Modellours Workshop.

I'm really looking forward to see how the landing and take-off looks because I've seen how much effort they put into getting it right and I've see some poor attempts on other layouts. It's apparently very hard to get it to look natural.

Märklin Kellerbahn

by Kasper Fcscher

Well, it only took me 5 months but I finally edited the Kellerbahn footage. I'm really satisfied how the video turned out though it's nothing like planned. I might make another edit if I feel inspired but I'm not sure.

Hope you all enjoy the video.

Kellerbahn

by Kasper Fischer

Better late than lever. That seems to be my life in a nutshell. I just set up the layout in our cellar and got the brilliant idea to make an Advents calender. A tad late, but what ever. From now on and until the 25th December, I will be posting a new short clip from my cellar layout every day. The 25th December I will release the full length video named "Kellerbahn".

here's the first view of the set up.

Wintrack trackplan.

af Kasper Fischer

Jeg har igennem de sidste par år arbejdet en del med at lave en god sporplan til mit layout. Det har sgu været svært men jeg tror jeg er ved at have fundet ud af det. Tre niveauer. En skyggebanegård nederst, et mellem niveau til op og ned stigning og en station på det øverste. jeg starter med at bygge skyggebanegården og bare forbinde enderne. Jeg har nemlig SLET ikke alle de skinner jeg skal bruge. Jeg regner men at det vil tage mig et års tid at samle skinner til det øverste niveau, så jeg har god tid til at finde ud af hvordan det skal se ud.

men her er min plan...

My garden project | Märklin Gartenbahn

by Kasper Fischer

I really want to make my model railroad videos stand out from the crowd and since I don't have an awesome layout to display my trains on, I really have to think outside the box. This project was for YouTube, home of personal videos so I was aiming for a much more personal type of video including some real people. Märklin and the whole model railroad industry's having big problems attracting the next generation but I see videos and YouTube as their solution. This is the perfect platform to display our hobby so this was my first attempt to make a different  type of video.

Unfortunately I had just bought a new Sony camera and had to change from Windows Movie Maker to Sony Vegas 10 and the whole project completely drowned in my noobishness and I never really got the video edited.

It was still a very fun day and as you can see in these videos, the kids really enjoyed it so it certainly wasn't wasted time. Enjoy the videos, fellas.

I made a plan in Wintrack and lay down the tracks. Hard work and it took me about 3 hours. The layout was made of a double mainline loop and a single track siding with reversing loops in both ends. The idea was to have three trains running on the mainline and one on the siding.

Here's the short loop:

And the long loop:

Durchfahrt eines Güterzuges im Bf Rheiningen

Märklin BR 23 & BR 44

Italian model railroad

Model Railway Altburg

Treinbetrieb EP III

LGB - Ferrovia da campo

SBB-Modellbahn Spur 0

Modellbaumesse Friedrichshafen 2009, Eisenbahn Modellbaugruppe Wangen bei Olten CH

Jubiläumsaustellung MEC Weilerswist 2009

DB Regino on the "Hintertupfingen" layout

Worlds smallest model railroad

by Kasper Fischer

It too me a while to understand but I think I got it now. This is an N scale diorama, made for a Z scale layout. Meaning first you take the prototype and make it Z scale. Then you decide your small 1/220 people want a N scale model railroad diorama, which is in 1/160 scale. This makes the actual scale of the tiny train layout 1/35200. Can your eyes handle that?