Miniatur Wunderland Weekly Report
09.09.02 at 11:14 hrs
Weekly Report No 97, CW 36
From Monday, 02.09.2002 to Sunday, 08.09.2002
There's light at the end of the tunnel... We don't dare yet to define a fixed date for the opening of the Hamburg section but progress is good and the "Wunderland-Hamburg" nears completion.
While we are are ath topic 'land': this also grows in the 5th room into which part of this layout section protrudes.
From the department "Rated R" I brought a couple of pictures from my last visit to St.Pauli. Well, see for yourself:
meanwhile, life is humming at the Landungsbrücken.
Souvenir shops, cafes, restaurants, and snack bars started business and tourists as well as natives stroll over the pontoons.
Right next door, graffity sprayers obviously had a ball. Makes on think to be right in the Stresemannstrasse ;-)
An alternative living culture established itself in the outskirts of the town. The owner of this patch of land left it uncultivated for speculative reasons and now has difficulties to get rid of the folks living there...
The zoo made considerable progress.
Most of the kennels are in place and the first animals also moved in.
Lawns, trees, and the main entrance are still missing, though.
In order to avoid cracks in the plaster and to get a basic structure for the pastures, we covered the plaster with molton (a fabric). Pressed into the still wet plaster, it already now gives a surface that resembles a pasture. Once the base color has dried, the pasture will be scenicked in the usual way.
While the technicians are still busy to install the extension for the air condition underneath the ceiling, the model builder already start to pave the streets and piers in the harbor area.
In the next days, the lift bridge will find its final location here. We can't wait to see the first train passing over the bridge...
Room 5 saw the completion of the benchwork. In the background, an airport will be created and a circus will atrract visitors. The foreground will show a storm flood heavily battering the levees.
Well, and then there was my yesterday's trip... Boy, what a quarrel when I got my camera out and started to snap away. People don't like it so much here - ok, yes, it is written on the entrance but these cute ladies...
However, I just managed to send the pics using my handy before the mob got his hands on me and my camera.....I only hope, I don't need a straw for meals anymore by next week......
