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Toys on Hive
5y
Our model train adventure - part 37: The train station
Our model train adventure - part 37: The train station
What does every model train layout need? Yes, of course: a train station. Last Easter, my son got a train station from PIKO and a few days later we built it up. Previous posts: Part 1: The Christmas present
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Toys on Hive
5y
Our model train adventure - part 36: The water tower
Our model train adventure - part 36: The water tower
The Easter Bunny also brought a water tower by Faller (FA131357). We built it on Easter Sunday and we found a nice place for it. Previous posts: Part 1: The Christmas present Part 2: The petrol station
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Toys on Hive
5y
Our model train adventure - part 35: New cars
Our model train adventure - part 35: New cars
The Easter Bunny was very busy and he brought us many things for our model train. First of all, this nice Mercedes-Benz recycling truck by Majorette, that includes 5 recycling containers. I know that these
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Toys on Hive
6y
Our model train adventure - part 34: Tables, benches and barrels
Our model train adventure - part 34: Tables, benches and barrels
We continued with some details next to our Wine Cellars so that they look like a Heuriger. I bought a set of Beer Tables and Benches from Faller (180444). In addition I bought some handmade wooden barrels
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Toys on Hive
6y
Our model train adventure - part 33: The vineyard
Our model train adventure - part 33: The vineyard
Next to our wine cellar I built a terraced vineyard. For that I bought the set Grape Harvest by Busch (HO 1199). It was a lot of work and the parts were very small and detailled. All grapes had to be
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Toys on Hive
6y
Our model train adventure - part 32: The supermarket
Our model train adventure - part 32: The supermarket
Last year, we built a supermarket with matches.
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modeltrain
6y
Our model train adventure - part 31: The blossoming trees
Our model train adventure - part 31: The blossoming trees
As our model train layout should show all four seasons, I ordered some blossoming trees at AliExpress. They are of course not the quality of NOCH trees, but 10 trees only cost about EUR 1.20. I received
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Toys on Hive
6y
Our model train adventure - part 30: The mountain with the tunnel
Our model train adventure - part 30: The mountain with the tunnel
Building the mountain with the tunnel was the most time-consuming part of our model train layout. I used tunnel portals that I already had when I was a child. I printed out a grey brick wall on a DIN A4
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Toys on Hive
6y
Our model train adventure - part 29: The winter village
Our model train adventure - part 29: The winter village
Last November, we bought some Christmas houses and lamps at Action. All four houses had 3 LEDs inside that were powered via AA batteries. The houses are of course not in the same quality like the model
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Toys on Hive
6y
Our model train adventure - part 28: The wine press
Our model train adventure - part 28: The wine press
For our model train layout I built a wine press with matches, a chopstick, two other sticks and filler.
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modeltrain
6y
Our model train adventure - part 27: The wine cellars
Our model train adventure - part 27: The wine cellars
I created two wine cellars for our model train layout.
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modeltrain
6y
Our model train adventure - part 26: The USB vacuum cleaner
Our model train adventure - part 26: The USB vacuum cleaner
One of our latest investments was this mini vacuum cleaner. It is powered via a USB cable, but there is a battery version as well. It was originally intended for cleaning PC keyboards but it is perfect
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modeltrain
6y
Our model train adventure - part 25: Interior lighting for the farm
Our model train adventure - part 25: Interior lighting for the farm
As the weather was not that fine today, we also made the interior lighting for the farm (see here). For that we just bought a 3V LED chain with 10 LED for about 2 or 3 Euro. You can buy similar things
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modeltrain
6y
Our model train adventure - part 24: More street lights
Our model train adventure - part 24: More street lights
Today I added more lights to our model train layout. First I had to do a lot of soldering and since this is not the healthiest activities for childrens' lungs I decided to do it at our balcony - at -1°
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modeltrain
6y
Our model train adventure - part 23: The Flemish houses
Our model train adventure - part 23: The Flemish houses
25 years ago I lived in Belgium for five months. During that time I bought these three ceramic houses. They are approximately H0 scale and should depict houses in Flemish baroque like you can find them
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modeltrain
6y
Our model train adventure - part 22: Creating a charging station for electric cars
Our model train adventure - part 22: Creating a charging station for electric cars
As we had a petrol station we also wanted to have a charging station for electric cars on our model train layout. You can buy one by Faller (180280) but 16.50 EUR were too much for us so we decided to
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modeltrain
6y
Our model train adventure - part 21: Our PIKO Junior set
Our model train adventure - part 21: Our PIKO Junior set
In February 2019, we visited an exhibition of the IGM Wien, a group of model train enthusiasts, in Korneuburg, Lower Austria. Both, my son and me, were taking photos. (By the way - you can see the photos
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modeltrain
6y
Our model train adventure - part 20: The railway crossing
Our model train adventure - part 20: The railway crossing
After finishing our work last sunday (see part 19) we realized that we have forgotten to create ramps for the railway crossing. So I bought filler on Monday. On tuesday we created the ramps. As you can
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modelrailroad
6y
Our model train adventure - part 19: The petrol station and the farm
Our model train adventure - part 19: The petrol station and the farm
Last Sunday we also created the second quarter of our modeltrain. Well, it is not 100% finished yet. As we planned to have a lot of streets in this area, we painted everything with grey paint. As we knew
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modeltrain
6y
Our model train adventure - part 18: The campground
Our model train adventure - part 18: The campground
Last Saturday we created the landscape of the first quarter of the modeltrain - a campground with a lake. For the lake we used a special paper from Busch (7175 Feld, Acker, See), then we used grass glue

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