At our October meeting, Doug Rhodes brought along portions of two German exhibition layouts he had been working on during the year.
The first was a modified version of the fiddle yard to his German seaport model - Hansestadt Brunshafen. Inspired by an article in a magazine called Eisenbahn Journal, a single Faller kit for a town hall had been severely kit bashed to produce a row of historic waterfront buildings in low relief.
Using the baseboard and track formation from a previous layout, the second model displayed was of a fictional Endbahnhof or terminal station set in rural Hessen not far from the Iron Curtain in the 1950s/60s period.
A detailed account of both models and how they were built, resulted in a prolonged and lively discussion from a very well attended meeting.
Hessen layout
The new fiddle yard