The Model, Military or Railway tour of '24 - Part 2

After a detour of more than 60km yesterday night I realized that the city Tavastehus is just another name for Hämeenlinna. It's a very nice town:

Anyway,  it's a good starting-point for today's destinations. The first of them being:

The Parola Tank Museum 

Even if this museum displays some models...

...and even some large 1:6 scale RC-models...

...it's probably their hughe 1:1 collection of tanks that reflects several wars and conflicts Finland been involved in that's most impressive:

In the section for anti-tank warfare...

...they even have anti-tank simulator for public use:

They have a pretty decent museum-shop as well:

They have bags of army men. A bit 'pricey' though at €19...

I even found something useful in this museum shop. It finally looks like my army men will drive to the battlefield in the future in this new APC. -Even if it means challenges when driving motorcycle with no space left for anything...

So next out today is the:

Finnish Railway Museum

They even had a scale model of the museum it self:

I was here 23 years ago and I think they had a large model railway here then. Now this was the only running layout. Bous for free push-button to run trains for kids though:

Not many engine models either. This looks very American.

-But they have a large collection of real models:

...and the 'real' American ones are really hughe!

They have a garden café and a garden train...

- and a model of it:

I was happy with a cup of coffee though.

I didn't think the museum shop was so exciting either....

-Until I saw this display (!).

Here they had several rare Finnish models made in Finland. Mostly in H0.

Having already bought an APC today I had no space left in my motorcycle. The models are made by Mestarimallit 

Time to move on.