Miniatur Wunderland Weekly Report

07.05.07 at 10:51 hrs

Weekly Report No 340, CW 18

Step by step, an impressive panorama of the Alps is emerging. First the addition of vegetation to the Bietschhorn and installation of the first details have breathed life into the layout.

Finally, work on Matterhorn mountain begins. Harry started last week to plaster the mountain peak.

Martina has finished the transition area between Bietschhorn and Graubünden. Check out the narrow roads and the hiking trails. Vegetation and addition of details will start here soon, too.

In the Engadin area, Christian is busily working on the framework. Further bases for roads and tracks are added and we install more platforms which will serve as base for the buildings.

Wolfgang and Sabine finish the tracks in the Graubünden area station, where Sabine's job is weathering the tracks realistically. Altogether, Wolfgang has installed more than 2900 meters of tracks in the last months.

It is astonishing how healthy his hands look nevertheless. Eventually, there are only about 100 meters of uninstalled tracks left, and then Wolfgang can start the test runs.

Here you can see Daniel finishing colorization of a new viaduct in the Engadin.

The photo shows very well how realistically this viaduct has been modelled.

It really becomes green! Sönke is just adding vegetation to the first areas.

For this, he is using an electro-static grass spreading device which should put the blades of grass pointing straight up from ground.

Unfortunately, this is difficult to see on these photos as the extra grass has not yet been removed.

These small objects are the result of Bobby's artistic trait.

What they are for, we'll tell you next week... :-)

In the meantime, the motorway construction site finally has found its place on the layout and is enhanced with further machines. You can see the yellow transport lift for workers and material.

An odd building from our workshop: What has happened to the electrician who did this? Too many drinks? Having a closer look, you might be able to guess what this will be, can't you? Watch out for more details next week. :-)