Enköping harbor by ubjs - a model railroad module in 1:45

[ubjs]

Enköping is a small city in Sweden ca 80 km from Stockholm.

The harbor is also small and that makes it perfect for building a model railroad module of it.

I build in scale 1:45, called 0-scale in model railroading and the module shall have a bit of the waterarea with several model ships.

 

I found this photo, https://digitaltmuseum.se/011014537633/enkoping-hamnen-gamla-hamnmagasinen-maj-1957/media?slide=0,

and it inspired me to the build.

Three of the oldest port warehouses still exists, this is one of them.

 

 

[ubjs]

This is a picture of the modules from the first modular meeting I used them.

The warehouses shall stand between the tracks and the water area will be at the bottom along with the whole module, 640 cm.

I´m now working on the warehouses and a ship model of a cargo ship, Vega. I have a modelkit of Vega but in scale 1:35, I will have to make one from scratch in correct scale.

[ubjs]

Here is a picture of one wall I have built. I use 2 mm thick balsa wood and cut in a little Proxxon saw.

I glue the strips to cardboard and I shall make doors in plastic strips from Evergreen.

The houses will be quite large so I will have to find out a way to transport them with the walls separated.

Maybe I´ll use Lego pieces or magnets to hold them together at meetings.

 

 

 

[ubjs]

This project stopped in mars 2020, when Corona entered the scene I completly lost inspiration for building modules for model railroading.

But now it looks better again and I have taken up this one where I left it.

 

I´m building what I call ¨advanced mockups¨, I have made most of the walls for ca 10 buildings and shall make the roofs. All in 0,8 mm card. Then I will go on and build the models on the card with balsawood and doors, windows of Evergreen plastic strips. So the mockups will be reused as ground for the ¨real¨ modelhouses, thats why I call them ¨advanced mockups¨:)

 

Here is a picture of a solution for putting the walls together. Its for solving the transportation problem I wrote about above in june 8 2020!

[ubjs]

Oh, the pictures became bigger than I thougt, some adjustments should be done at the connection of the walls.

The bottle is 75 cl, if it had been alcohol in it, we call it ¨helrör¨ in swedish.

[Canute]

Great idea for making your structures portable. I've seen many a layout with structures looking like your last picture. The owners are more into operating the trains than worrying about the authenticity of each structure. 😉

[ubjs]

All buildings and I got some inspiration to carry on building them.

We run what we like, english, german, us and some swedish.

I have a Lenz startset and some brass kits on the shelf of swedish goods wagons.

 

 

[Canute]

My club does that. We operate British and German equipment, along with our US/Canadian trains. Kind of cool hearing the distinctive whistles of the British locos.

 

Modules look very good. 👍

[Nirvana]

Härligt att se en svensk idyll komma till liv. Ser bra ut.

Nice to see a small iconic small town coming to life.

Looks good.