Reichenau Castle Last week we visited the Christmas market in the castle of Reichenau an der Rax. Reichenau is a market

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Last weekend we visited the IGM Wachau in Grunddorf (municipality of Grafenegg in Lower Austria). The IGM Wachau is an a

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

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

Last year, we built a supermarket with matches.

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

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

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

For our model train layout I built a wine press with matches, a chopstick, two other sticks and filler.

I created two wine cellars for our model train layout.

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

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

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°

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

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

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

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

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

After mounting the self-made protective pads we were finally able to move the base plate to the final position in a corner of the room. Although I planned and calculated and re-planned everything for several