Whether it’s a fall from the layout, a change of era, broken parts, or any other reason: sometimes parts of a gauge 1 model end up in the hobby box or spare parts bin. And then, suddenly, an idea strikes about what to do with them. The Ziegler brothers turned a Länderbahn car body into a shed, very close to a prototype.

Que ce soit à cause d'une chute sur le réseau, d'un changement d'époque, de pièces cassées ou pour toute autre raison : il arrive parfois que des éléments d'un modèle à l'échelle 1 finissent dans la boîte à bricolage ou le bac à pièces de rechange. Et puis, soudain, une idée surgit sur la manière de les utiliser. Les frères Ziegler ont transformé une caisse de wagon de la Länderbahn en remise, très fidèle au prototype.

In 3D printing, it’s relatively easy to create a 1-gauge model based on unusual prototypes. With the right templates, imagination, and design software, you can create models like the LAG 891 railcar, which was even used by the DB.

En impression 3D, il est relativement facile de créer un modèle à l'échelle 1:1 à partir de prototypes inhabituels. Avec les bons modèles, un peu d'imagination et un logiciel de conception, vous pouvez créer des modèles tels que l'autorail LAG 891, qui a même été utilisé par la DB.

Overhead lines are not very common on gauge 1 because they are not only expensive but also difficult to install and only vaguely resemble the real thing. For this reason, overhead lines are usually not used when operating electric locomotives, or at best, masts are erected. This is understandable because catenary systems are highly complex networks that require a great deal of expertise and enormous manual skill to install.

Jean-Luc Declerck from Belgium is a model builder who has set about constructing fully tensioned overhead lines and shows how he did it here in 99 pictures. He designed a prototypical SNCB overhead line for 1:32 scale.

Model builders had traveled from Poland to show their PKP 1 Gauge models in operation in Giessen.

Horst Göhr was a master of model making and weathering. A pictorial retrospective.

There is also a small gauge 1 community in Belgium, which, due to a lack of supply from the industry, helps each other to build models. This ranges from Belgian signals to rolling stock, which often had its own design language in Belgium or consisted of imported or licensed copied locomotives and cars. A gauge 1 friend builds bridges.

A modeler has built an Austrian-style locomotive shed for a gauge 1 layout. Of course with interior equipment. 33 photos.

Horst Göhr has turned a simple locomotive shed kit into a highly detailed model for 1 scale. 56 pictures, prototype photos and a video.

Jacek Wysocki from Poland has already built a few locomotives for 1 gauge. With the Newag Griffin he has created a new masterpiece.

Horst Göhr has completed and photographed the Neuendorf-Karritz station. The attention to detail is visible - and this is what the 1 gauge is predestined for.

"Vollendete Baukunst" - Perfect Architecture is the name of the large-format book by artist and model builder Volker Gerisch. The title could not be more apt, because Gerisch leaves nothing unfinished, he miniaturizes in 1:22.5 scale and goes to the limits of what is possible - occasionally even beyond. This has also resulted in by-products such as old-fashioned telephones and lamps in 1:32 for 1 gauge.

Not everyone has the space to document an entire station area in 1:32 scale. In narrow gauge, the stations are naturally smaller. Therefore, a masterpiece was created with the three structures of Ochsenhausen, which spur1info has the chance to show with 44 photos.

Horst Göhr's rural station is nearing completion. Here are some snapshots of the building.

Brick and half-timbering, a small footprint and a touch of romance: Horst Göhr builds a small train station in the Altmark region of northern Saxony-Anhalt that unfortunately lost its function 21 years ago.

In Annecy, about fifty kilometers south of Geneva, stands the magnificent Maison Gallo. A replica for 1 gauge.

Two Polish modelers were running PKP diesel and steam locomotives they had built themselves on a large gauge 1 oval. And Stangel had brought along new kits.

In the fifth and final part of the report on the Saxon Narrow Gauge Railroad Hamburg we look at the three stations of Wilkaustein, where standard gauge and narrow gauge were cleverly combined. 40 photos.

Part 4 on the Saxon Narrow Gauge Railway Hamburg deals with an industrial siding, the interlockings on the standard gauge line with three-rail track and a light railroad. A gauge 1 layout can be that diverse. 43 photos.

The stations Vierenstraße and Venusberg of the large Saxon narrow gauge railroad Hamburg are presented with 34 photos. There are many possibilities for shunting operations here and a locomotive shed in each location. The buildings were self-built after Saxon prototypes.

The second part describes the development of the module layout of the friends of Saxon narrow gauge railroads in Hamburg. The large 1e narrow gauge layout has ten stations. Three of them are presented in part 2 with 35 atmospheric photos in large format.

A large narrow gauge layout based on Saxon models has to be dismantled. For the time being, we take a last look at the gauge 1 module layout, which reproduces the flair of the Saxon narrow gauge railroads of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in the 1970s to 1980s like hardly any other.

Part 1 with 38 photos in large format.

A new subscriber from South America builds French 1/32 scale townhouses at the highest level, inspired by Emmanuel Nouaillier. Miniature art at its best.

How do you build a ballast plant or a loading station? Horst Göhr shows: Like this, for example!

In the 1970s, DB locomotive 85 007 stood in the parking lot in front of the engineering college in Constance. As a museum piece, it came to Freiburg under a shelter. Hans and Walter Ziegler have rebuilt it in 1:32 scale. A building instruction for patient model builders.

To build seven tank cars, you need time and patience. Now they are ready to roll on 45 mm track.

Aby zbudować siedem wagonów cystern, potrzeba czasu i cierpliwości. Teraz są one gotowe do jazdy po torach 45 mm.

There is no better prototype than the prototype. And suddenly chance helps to make an idea come true in 1:32 scale. A series of worker's houses, supported by an automobile manufacturer, was converted into models down to the last detail.

After the 2013 Spur1 meeting in Sinsheim, I reported on July 7, 2013 about Wilgro models that were offered at Wyko-Echtdampf. Among the heavily patinated models were also two worth seeing half-assembled kits of the class 86.

According to the comments, the models created by Mr. Groß in this condition were suitable to enrich the respective scene as rusty models on the siding or on a scrap yard.

The following report by Hans and Walter Ziegler shows that there is another way and that the two torsos do not have to eke out an existence as lifeless scrap.

Jacek Wysocki from Poland is currently building a tank car train. Here are some snapshots.

Self-built buildings for gauge 1 are unique models with charm. Unfortunately, the popular model of the brick and half-timbered signal box no longer exists - and it had a different name.

Shortly after the Second World War, people in Germany had other things to worry about than building model trains. With the Flying Hamburger on a self-built track system, there is a history that should not be completely lost. Especially since there were already functions built in that do not exist in gauge 1 to this day.

Before the coaling station Hans and Walter Ziegler built a small workshop for their museum depot Fützen. The illuminated model is removable and has a sophisticated power supply.

In addition to the Ziegler brothers' contribution to the construction of the small coaling station, the supply sources now come here.

The Ziegler brothers have completed their museum depot with a small coaling station. After a long wait they decided to build the model themselves. It is functional and looks good.

Here they describe and show how they went about building it.

After his excellent Polish Dragon, Jacek Wysocki built five tank cars. His gauge 1 models are still getting even better.

It is much work to cover a roof with model tiles. But the effort is worth it if you strive for the highest model-making quality.

Vineyards on Lake Geneva are the inspiration for an elaborate plantation on a Swiss club layout in 1:32. Part 1.

At the Intermodellbau in Dortmund, Volker Gerisch presented his diorama of a factory in the Sauerland region in 1/22.5 scale. The interior furnishings in the offices and the porter's lodge are of the highest level.