11.12.06 at 12:16 hrs

Weekly Report No 319, CW 49

Something is happening! As the one or another user may already have noticed, Stephan is back "on board". He has a very long "To do" list. First thing is to refurbish vital areas of our homepage like re-enforcing teh spam-protection which had been done during the last days.

Stephan's main goal for the next weeks, however, is to concept a new Miniatur Wunderland-Site and develop it. Here is a screen shot from the concept. During the next weeks, we will report about this really bulky project...

Gaston in his element: bridge building. Here, he builds the Rohrbach-bridge with a length of 203 cms, completely scratchbuilt from wood. This bridge is somewhat special: It was built for the Gotthard-Railway and is located in an area with a lot of avalanches. Therefore, it is equipped with an additional avalanche protection.

Here Sönke shows one of the many tunnel portals which he built during the last days. Now he longs to build them into the layout!

Slowly, but surely, the village behing Churbriggen station is evolving.

These pictures show just a rehearsel (to see if the buildings fit the big picture) but one already gets an impression of the future look.

The steel framework for the Bietschhorn - mountain is nearly finished. In the next weeks we can start to coat it with it's "skin".

During the last weeks the "Spiegel TV" team was in the house and filmed for a new report to be broadcasted December, 18. In order to enable the film team exciting pictures, we positioned nearly the complete team in the new Alps section.

There's only one question left: Where the heck do the colleagues go to with that staging area? :-)

We again mounted a rail-guided camera delivered by PMT ...

whom we thank a lot for their cooperation.

This camera system allows to "fly" over the layout...

and thus delivers a really good impression about the size of the layout.