After months of planning, it has finally started: the construction of the Waldbrunn an der Veluwe show layout! The DTS showroom in Ermelo has been adapted, creating space for the first part of the model railway. While we at DTS often choose CNC-milled or laser-cut modules for customer projects, I’m
Last summer, I started building Waldbrunn Station. It’s a Faller kit that I think fits the project perfectly. A fictional station, mind you. I started by priming the walls and other parts, then colored the bricks in reddish-brown. The window frames in an off-white color. After coloring the bricks individually
Today I continued placing the base ribs. I still had to mark these out based on the track plan and the actual build. It was quite a task because the drawing and reality are never 100% the same. Especially the planned height differences, the descending provincial road for the cars,
This time I’ve been working on installing the tracks, picking up where I left off last time with part of the station. This time we continued with the section on the right side where, next to the railway track, there is also a descending roadway. This had to be finished
Last Friday, Heinz from MCC ModelCarParts dropped by to measure the MCC road surface for the automated vehicles. This means I now know what’s possible in terms of vehicles and how much space I can reserve for them. By the way, this is going to be a lot of fun.
