Projects - Dutch Model trains

Projects from my old website will be uploaded one by one.

Project 1: Trees and flowers

This project is from before 2012. It is a repost of my old website.

Last updated: on or before 2012.

In this article I show how artificial flowers, dried flowers and hair braids can be used as materials to make scenery on the model layout, like trees, bushes and hay. To create a forest you will need lots, lots of trees, and they are expensive when purchased “already made” or even in kits. Leave the expensive ones for in the front of the forest, here I show you my way of creating trees for filling in large forest space…

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Project 2: Canal bridge

This project is from before 2012. It is a repost of my old website.

Last updated: on or before 2012.

In the 1990’s Pola released, in the master model line, a model of a Dutch canal bridge. Too build the bridge as shown on this picture, you need two of those kits. Unfortunately for me, Pola made just a small number of the kits. This photo above is from the original Pola box, which I received from Mr. R. Loos.

Scratch building became a necessity.

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