Miniatur Wunderland Weekly Report
23.05.05 at 12:56 hrs
Weekly Report No 238, CW 20
From Monday, 16.05.2005 to Sunday, 22.05.2005
Kiruna, the mining site.
The structures are not exactly positioned yet,
but they already look mighty impressive.
There are 3 ore processing plants in Kiruna (the prototype) but we only have enough space for one of them. Here, the ore is formed into small balls in those huge drums.
After that, they go into an oven and are baked into pellets at 1.250° centigrades. The pellets then are loaded onto trains and transported to the ports.
As with the prototype, the ore is transported to the port where it will be transloaded to ships.
Well, for those who ask themselves how to create these realistic looking ore hills in a port; here's a tip for you, guys: In the port of Hamburg is a huge storage area of Kiruna ore. Those who do a bit of begging, are allowed to collect some of this stuff and take it home. Nothing is more realistic than the real thing :-).
Since we are in the port area anyway,
...we can look around a bit....
... and also walk through the town where ...
...little craftsmen (and -women) are busy with the detailling.
Back to Sweden, we come across a valley where the "season - change" will take place...
... and are a bit puzzled about just how many ...
...details can be packed into a bare snow - scenery.
In the meantime, a warehouse was built in the shops. The clou: If a button is pushed, the forklift actually starts to run!
And here's one for the way: There are romours that the danish dunes are not really suitable for youths to wander about. Even for adults it is quite difficult to find out what really happens there - Predicate : well hidden!!
