Hummelfjellbanen revisited

This is how ChatGPT interpreted one of the following photos from the day out at Svenn Robert's and Hildegunn's Garden Railway. Guess which one?

August last year Svenn Robert and Hildegunn invited to the Grand Opening of their Garden Railway, Hummelfjellbanen. This year they invited to another running session weekend, and a small group from our Model Railway Club attended. This is about to become an annual late summer gathering bringing together people from different model- and garden railway societies in Norway. Hummelfjell Garden Railway is located 'up north' close to the middle parts of Norway and are therefore a kind of center point for railway modellers from different parts of the country.

Since we were going to a mountain village when the summer is about to end and Svenn Robert is a Citroën mechanic, I brought a train loaded with propper vehicles:

Here are some photos and video of our great day(s) out:

Svenn Robert's Fiddleyard is well executed

As usual barbecue, coffee, cakes and a lot of fun:

It's a prototype for everything:

Thank you Svenn Robert and Hildegunn for inviting us and for your warm hospitality. 

The date for next year is already decided and reserved. I hope even more Garden Railway modellers will attend next year. 

Documentary Recommendations

As most of the regular readers of this blog may already have noticed, I focus much of my wargaming around 'the Congo Crisis' 1960-65 as this was one of the first and most offensive UN-missions ever. It lend it self to smaller skirmishes, which is the way I mostly like my wargaming. I've been taking some liberties creating new ones within this conflict though. Focusing on one conflict only means that I can limit myself as I doesn't have to collect several armies or create a huge collection of miniatures (which need painting). I'm into other hobbies as well and my hobby-time has to be well considered to manage them all. 

Often Veterans are forgotten, but after serving with one of the Norwegian UN-veterans from this mission, I've come to the conclusion that the UN-Veterans from Congo are some of the really forgotten ones. Being a Veteran myself, I kind of wanted to focus on this forgotten conflict if that make any sense?

Since the Congo Crisis and the UN involvement is not given a lot of attention in media, I'm very interested in the information I actually manage to find about it. One of my recent finds I wanted to share with my readers as it is an interesting and good documentary and subtitled to English in the YouTube settings (it's very good to be YouTube). Besides I know that some few fellow bloggers and wargamers also are or have been into UN-troops in Congo. The Documentary itself is Swedish, and over 6000 Swedes served in Congo 1960-64: