G'evening all,
Today I'd like to introduce you to my idea of my future layout Uhlenbuettel Estate (Gutshof Uhlenbuettel), which will keep me busy for the next 2-3 years I suppose. I intend to use this thread as a main thread, adding building reports from time to time, except building reports regarding rolling stock or motive power ...
(Sorry, no finescale modelling at the moment) ;)
Uhlenbuettel is, half real - half fictional, a village with a history over a few hundred years, which is located today as a suburb to the City of Hamburg.
My layout will have mostly all elements of Uhlenbuettel and some more, but - depending of a lack of spare space - be kinda cramped for space, narrow, compressed ... if you can imagine ...
So there will be still some rural scene ...
(https://www.finescalerr.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.feldbahnmodellbau.de%2Fgallery%2Fimage.php%3Falbum_id%3D11%26amp%3Bimage_id%3D282&hash=3f4e2d18fa227c30d795979b96aa9c2957e503fc)
... large farmhouses like this, built over 100 years ago ...
(https://www.finescalerr.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.feldbahnmodellbau.de%2Fgallery%2Fimage.php%3Falbum_id%3D11%26amp%3Bimage_id%3D283&hash=7755bb5f57f74f51deffd088f17a9366d1f24bfc)
... huge barns, partly modernized ...
(https://www.finescalerr.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.feldbahnmodellbau.de%2Fgallery%2Fimage.php%3Falbum_id%3D11%26amp%3Bimage_id%3D284&hash=7424274687f7c61d35b27dca155651a81a5da669)
... buildings and sheds, which have been or should have been modernized as well ...
(https://www.finescalerr.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.feldbahnmodellbau.de%2Fgallery%2Fimage.php%3Falbum_id%3D11%26amp%3Bimage_id%3D285&hash=1cd2b97d56387ab0b50bcf4f80e2b63c0036d44c)
... and some additional buildings/small business, like a carpenter, a mill, a nursery (horticulture), a "Mosterei" (place, where i. e. apples are squeezed to make apple juice - sorry, didn't manage to find the english/american term) or else, looking like this place, the horticulture business Otto Grosse in Dresden (photo: copyright/contributed/by kind permission of Sven Schlenkrich) ...
(https://www.finescalerr.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.feldbahnmodellbau.de%2Fgallery%2Fimage.php%3Falbum_id%3D11%26amp%3Bimage_id%3D286&hash=23591d67ceec60f088afb28cf4a847db6e96da20)
... so I got parts of my stuff outside today, which will take place in my layout - mainly cardboard or paper mock ups for proportion checks, like the ASEA battery loco (http://www.feldbahnmodellbau.de/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=30&start=0), the Diema LR diesel loco (http://www.feldbahnmodellbau.de/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=6&start=0), some visualization regarding an old building (http://www.feldbahnmodellbau.de/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=25&start=0), apart from that half finished Struppe Akkulok (http://www.feldbahnmodellbau.de/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=16&start=0) and walls of the old chicken shack and the new shed ...
(https://www.finescalerr.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.feldbahnmodellbau.de%2Fgallery%2Fimage.php%3Falbum_id%3D9%26amp%3Bimage_id%3D280&hash=b74e91733da68269480b0fb05dee95fa1fc22cc2)
(https://www.finescalerr.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.feldbahnmodellbau.de%2Fgallery%2Fimage.php%3Falbum_id%3D9%26amp%3Bimage_id%3D281&hash=6f6c464a9e22e4f3d6349822b2f752f47f0870c7)
Edit: subject
Hello Gerald, This looks to very interesting in a neat scale, look forward to your progress :)
The country side looks very green and lush, will this be the time of year that you will model?
Randy
Hi Randy,
Quote from: PuckHog on May 23, 2011, 06:31:36 PM
... the country side looks very green and lush, will this be the time of year that you will model?
... I thought so, even if I don't have any experiences shaping floral layout components yet, but I already feel some naggin' doubts, if it would contrast too sharply with the narrow and inhospital area, used for the commercial/workshop purposes with concrete, dilapitated buildings/walls, cobble or paving stones and the only thing being green there would be some kind of weed in the gaps between the stones... ???
Kind regards