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:

C-160D Luftwaffe Transall Walk Around

by Dusan Lekic

C-160D Transall Luftwaffe

Rolls Royce Tyne Rty.20 (Mk 22/45) turboprop (4,549 kw/6100hp)

landing gear

flaps

cockpit

Multi-Role Transport
Germany 90 units C.160D

Top Speed 319 mph (513 km/h) at 16,000 ft. (4875m)
Ceiling: 27,000 ft. (8230m)
Range (Max. Payload): 1,150 miles (1850 km)

Dimensions
Height: 38 ft. 2¾ in. (11.65m)
Length: 106 ft. 3½ in. (32.40m)
Wing Span: 131 ft. 2¾ in. (40.0m)
Wing Area: 322.93 sq. ft. (30.00m²)

Weights:
Empty: 63,934 lb. (29,000 kg.)
Maximum Take-Off: 112,436 lb. (51,000 kg.)

Capacity
93 Troop, 61-88 Paratroops, 62 Stretcher case plus attendants
35,274 lb. (16000 kg) of vehicles or cargo

Sturmgeschütz III Gallery

StuG III Ausf. F/8 (Sd.Kfz.142/1 ) at Belgrade Military Museum, Serbia.
by Dusan Lekic

The "StuG" III was designed to fill an infantry close support combat role. These versions were known as the Sturmgeschütz 40 Ausführung F, Ausf. F/8. From F/8. StuG III was equipped with a high-velocity 7.5 cm StuK 40 L/48 gun and becomes standard until the very last of the Ausf. G. (Sd.Kfz 142/1: September-December 1942, 250 produced).

PBY4 Catalina Flying Boat 1/72 scale

by Dusan Lekic




Produced by Consolidated Aircraft PBY "Catalina" was one of the most widely used multi-role aircraft of WWII. "Catalina" were deployed in practically all of the operational theatres of World War II, PBYs were used in patrol bombing, anti submarine, escort and search and rescue missions.

This version PBY-4 was the last of the early versions powered by two Pratt & Whitney R-1830-72 (1050hp) Twin Wasp engines, with new propeller spinners, blisters over waist guns (later units).
Only 33 where built by order (including one initial as a XBPY-4 which later became the XBPY-5A).

This is my model of PBY4 Catalina Flying Boat in 1/72 scale by Academy.

This model is 99% out of the box, and painted with (US WWII standard) gunze colors, to represent Catalina in the Philippines.

Erich Hartmann's "White 2"

by Dusan Lekic
















When Erich Hartmann went to Germany on convalescent leave, his "white 2" was flown by Uffz. Herbert Meissler. On 28th of May (1943) his aircraft was damaged by LaGG-3 and he was obliged to make a forced landing in enemy territory and was captured.

Later, the aircraft was filmed for propaganda purposes by Soviets...

This is my model of Me-109G4/R6 in 1/72 scale by Fine Molds, painted with gunze colors, OOB, extratech seatbelts and some extra detail in cockpit.

Roden 1/48 Grumman OV-1 Mohawk

by Vladimir Paraskeva

Machine Krieger gustav down HD

SF3D was a Sci Fi plastic model series which ran during the mid 1980s. The series was created by artist Kow Yokoyama with Kunitaka Imai and Hiroshi Ichimura. SF3D was introduced in the Hobby Japan Magazine as a special monthly installment of scratch built models. Nitto, a small Japanese company picked up the rights to make plastic kits of Kow's designs. The models produced were very high quality with crisp molding, fine details and they included copper rod, brass tube, spring coils, and photo-etched parts. They were one of the first multimedia kits produced. The series ended after a few years. In 1998, the series was reintroduced by Nitto and Kow under the new name Maschinen Krieger Zbv 3000. Or simply MaK.

Durchfahrt eines Güterzuges im Bf Rheiningen

Märklin BR 23 & BR 44

1/50 scale construction