#nscale

This was supposed to be a quick and simple module, themed around Italy, and based around a model of an Italian railroad post house I bought ages ago (from MBS Model). I think it actually turned out really well. The problem is that I remembered the measurements of the module system wrong. I thought it was supposed to be 32 cm long, but no, it’s just 31 cm, and I forgot to check until I had already built the base structure. So the tracks wouldn’t fit, which means I had to add flex track with manual ballast, and stupidly, I decided to do that after building the rest of the landscape. And I’m still not done, because manual ballasting is horrible and it just won’t go where it needs to be. Mind you, I haven’t actually touched it in months, so it shouldn’t be that hard to fix.

The other thing that still needs fixing is that these telegraph poles (by Auhagen) need to be hot-glued in place again because I jiggled them too much and now they refuse to stand straight. I count that one under minor niggles.

Other relevant parts: The small details, like flower pots, dogs, cats and benches are all from Noch; the cars (Fiat Panda) are from Busch; one of the poplar trees is from MBR Model, the other are from Heki (and have cost as much as a set of four as a single MBR tree). The balcony guard rail is an etched metal fence from N-Train, because the supplied laser cut guard rail looked horrible. Most of the rest is from all over the place.