Garden Steam Gala

Heine invited to another running session in his garden. It was intentionally not a 'Steam only - meeting', but coincidentally people just brought steam engines to this day out:

I didn't 'read the room' too well this day out, and was the only one to bring a diesel-engine. For the sake of justice it was to haul my German Heeresfeldbahn, mostly loaded with vehicles this day:

It's also some 'live pictures' from our running session on this YouTube-video (except from my WDLR livesteam engine as I never gets an opportunity to film it as it takes too much attention to run):

The weather was on our side too. Literally: 

These running sessions are really pleasant get-togheters:

Heine is also into Z-scale (1:220), and he has built a really nice Z-scale layout in a coffee-table. I've been so much into this 1:18 scale Indiana Jones truck lately, so I decided to try 3D-printing him a similar in Z-scale to give him for hosting this day out in his garden. Not very bad for an inexpensive FDM 3D-printer, and it shows that you don't need a resin-printer to make miniatures. It's all about settings.

If it looks like this in Z-scale, just imagine how it will look in H0-scale. - I think I need to make one for my self and a (H0-) layout I'm working on as well.

I recently found another photo taken in 1940 which shows more German Mercedes LG3000 lorries in Norway:

The Norwegian Model Railway Association's 'Spring Exhibition'

The Model Railway Club where I'm a member, Gleng Modelljernbaneklubb, was invited by The Norwegian Model Railway Association to participate in their small 'Spring Exhibition' at the old textile factory at Heggedal.

Since several the members of our club are 3D-printing loads, wagons and locomotives in G-scale we were asked to focus our displays on 3D-printing for Garden Railways. We got an own room at the exhibition premises to show our work and Heine's winter layout in H0 scale:

3D-printed locomotive, wagons and loads

My collection of LGB wagons with 3D-printed loads, and a revelation of what to come in this blog at a later stage

The local Model Railway Club at Heggedal also displayed a portable H0 layout based on the local railway station, industries a scenic features like it would have looked like around 1920-ish. It was made to high standards, and not too overloaded with details and it was a really pleasant layout.

This little tram layout in H0 scale I've covered in 2 earlier exhibition reports on this blog (which you can see here and here). It's built to very high standard, and most of the items on the layout is scratch-built. I was curious to see if there were any new details added since last:

...Which is was; The layout builder and his wife in 1:87 scale (!)

The Norwegian Model Railway Association (MjF) also exhibited a small modular layout built after the FREMO-standards. There are many railway modellers building modules to this standard so they can bring their modules and come together for operating sessions. MjF also sold kits to make own modules if you don't have the carpentry skill to make one for your self:

The Model Railway Association had also mad a G-scale layout kid could run on their own:

-And on this 'layout' I saw a LGB wagons similar to one of mine. -Before it was repainted, detailed and weathered.

The local Model Railway Club at Heggedal also had a permanent H0 layout under construction:

Fana Model Railway Club had come all the way from Bergen to display their large, portable G-scale layout:

Our club was invited by the kind fellows from Fana Model Railway Club to run our displayed models on their layout. -And so we did: