Miniatur Wunderland Weekly Report
02.04.01 at 13:58 hrs
Weekly Report No 22, CW 13
From Monday, 26.03.2001 to Sunday, 01.04.2001
Work goes fast now. Small neat details emerge from every corner of the layout. In about 5 weeks, we want to finish scenicking section 1.1 and start train programming with the branchline in this section.
In section 1.2, track laying has almost finished and the focus now is on wiring.
Here, we'll create an amphitheater. The tunnel to the left (in the foreground) leads to the wardrobes and utility rooms which are located inside the hill. The hole in the center will accomodate the mechanism for the dancers on the stage.
The first village starts to develop.
A small market place, a church with a cemetary, a car dealer, and of course the obligatory mobile toilet for the building construction give this village already now a stunning athmosphere.
A small military proving ground is created on the slopes in the background. Tanks ripped up the soil and left some deep traces in the scenery.
You remember? Picture 5, the picture of last week which will accompany us until this gorge is perfect. Meanwhile, gras "grew" and the rocks have been overworked with another coat of paint.
While the catenary is complete on the high bridge,...
the wires (white) for the signals in the station below still wait to be connected.
Kalli builds catenary into the large (well, on our scale with "only" 8 tracks relatively small) station, while the quarry is already modelled in the background. The concrete-steel bridge was the last bridge in this section.
Meanwhile, the tracks in the "flat" part of section 2 are almost all down and wired. We cleverly avoided the mistakes, we made in the first section and so progress is very fast. We guess that next week the first runs will take place.
Sometimes, ther really is just one question:: Reality or model? Did you recognize it? 18. week, pic. 3 or 16. week, pic. 2
