Miniatur Wunderland Weekly Report

16.04.07 at 11:02 hrs

Weekly Report No 337, CW 15

Slowly but gradually the summit of the Bietschhorn is reaching perfection.

More and more details are developing and the top of the mountain is enlivened with the small Preiserleins.

They are busily working on the passage to the Graubuenden section. The foothills of the Bietschhorn are plastered

A lot of you probably are wondering what the silver pipes in the mountains frame are for. Later they will serve for blowing the dust of the mountain. Although this will not be a storm but rather a gentle breeze constantly blowing off the mountain.

Beneath the Matterhorn the first tunnel portals and rock-fall walls are built and installed.

How does it look at the top of the Matterhorn at the moment?

There is no plastering going on, but the installation and wiring of tracks is progressing. Here you can see Lars, who is wiring the last electrical circuits directly at the top.

In the valley of the Alps section we are busily working on the details. Here Sönke and Stefan install the first crane for the motorway construction site - there are more to follow.

This construction is bound to stay around permamently as it is more interesting to see cranes at work then watching cars speed down the motorway. :-))

You might think: “Why do they show us a night shot? There´s nothing to see.” If you take a closer look you will see how many windows are lit in the buildings as in the last months in sections Alps, Knuffingen, Harz and Hamburg all buildings and street lamps were switched to LED’s. When we started the construction, LED’s were still very expensive and that’s why we used incandescent lamps. Unfortunately these lamps break more often and more so that we had to replace them. Therefore we used 12.000 LED’s that now set the buildings glowing with illumination.