Visiting Miniature Kingdom

On our way home after visiting Djurhedens Garden Railway, we took a little detour in the area to check if there were any updates on the public model railway Miniature Kingdom in Kungsör. I was there during a motorcycle tour in the summer of 2024 as well. Miniature Kingdom is a kind of Swedish equivalent to 'Miniatur Wunderland'; a public model railway with more than 700 meters of rails focusing on iconic Swedish landscape and a lot of recognizable Swedish signature elements. There were a lot of people visiting The Miniature Kingdom while we was there, but we were early so that's why it looks 'empty' on my photos below:

A 'model of the model'

I've seen on the Miniature Kingdom's FB page that they're currently working on some new projects which includes the Swedish Airforce Museum in Linköping and was curious to see that live. It seems like they're building their new projects elsewhere and bring them to the layout when ready to mount. So unfortunately I didn't see the model of the Swedish Airforce Museum this time (which is a reason to go back sometime). They had completed what was work in progress when I was there in 2024 though; the County of Värmland with it's Canals and Locks:

In this yellow building it used to be an annual model railway exhibition IRL in Mellerud 

Since I was there last they had also upgrades in the County of Södermansland:

In Södermansland they had also included parts of the Femöre Coastal Fortress:

When I looked through my photos from this visit I saw that I actually had taken many similar photos as from my previous visit 2 years earlier, so it's obviously what is my favorite scenes. I found a medieval tournament I haven't noticed before:

I made a YouTube-video to capture some of my impressions and those long ore trains in Northern Sweden which runs to Narvik in Norway:

I'm intrigued by that many of the more than 400 iconic buildings in Miniature Kingdom are 3D-printed. - And especially since they're filament printed on an FDM printer. They're obviously 3D-printed in parts, and assembled as regular kits:

19800 visitors in 2025 alone is impressive for an attraction like this. Not as exact statistic, but you can put a pin on a map (of Sweden) where you're from,and it looks like there have been a increasing number of visitors since I was there in 2024:

The Swedish layout of Miniature Kingdom is about 200 square meters today, and it's planned to expand further 120 square meters. So it should be no excuses not to visit this great layout in the future.

Blog PostScript

Just 3 days after our visit, the new Linköping modules with the Swedish Airforce Museum was installed at Miniature Kingdom...
-This is so 'Murphy's Law'...

So it looks like there will just have to be another revisit to Miniature Kingdom some time in the future...

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: