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Follow this link for the illustrated highlights of this year's Ontraxs exhibition, from Eisenbahn-Romantik. I hope you find some inspiration amongst these pictures ....

http://www.swr.de/eisenbahn-romantik/ontraxs-2015-die-27-kunstwerke-dieses-jahres/-/id=13831034/did=15246892/nid=13831034/17998n2/index.html


Manfred Kuhl's  chess piece factory in GN15 with 25'000 bricks and 19'000 cobblestones all individually laid may have broken Nick's record, I think ?


You'll find more pictures of this, and many other fine, dioramas by browsing those Eisenbahn-Romantik photos.

Alan , you can bet your bottom Euro that breaks any record I might have set .

  There are some very interesting looking models/layouts on the website . I wish I had been able to go .

  Nick

That brick factory diorama is stunning!

My records show that I have created just shy of 27,000 bricks for my Gn15 layout but there is a high wastage factor. I do know that there is only half of the 20kg of casting plaster left in the barrel and the hardware store I bought the cement oxides from is now only stocking really small bottles of the stuff in a reduced range of colours. (You are supposed to go to their trade store if you want more serious quantities which are supposedly only available to tradies with an ABN (Australian Business Number) which I have but I don't need the quantity, I just need the correct colour!)

The building in the photo is of a higher quality than mine - much more complicated shape and structure and looks to be longer as well.

Progress shot from 2010 of the hotel on the Pudding Central diorama. The figure (Norm the Builder) is 75mm high. Approx 8000 bricks in this structure.

good to see that there are alot of very talented people in the world who take a pride in there work.that dutch canal display is just stunning.
i went to a show here in australia over the weekendi think it must have been a joke but to make it worse you had to pay to be part of the joke.
regards kim

Kim

I unfortunately have to agree with your broader comment insofar that the non-existent layouts at Convention were a serious disappointment.  However having said that, taking into account our very small "narrowgauger" population compared to the entire western Europe, the Convention's Contest Models were equal to anything in Europe or the USA and UK.

In this context it is interesting to note that your diorama would not have been out of place at Ontraxs and would certainly have drawn a great deal of attention (see my comments elsewhere on the forum)

have fun
BernardS

Why isn't Norm the Builder working? -- Russ

Artizen, I like your subtle coloration differences for the corners, windows and bottom courses. Careful work there.

Norm never works, he's the supervisor.

Bill, the subtle variation in colour didn't work out once the building was varnished ready for mortar so in the end I hand-coloured the entire thing. The colours change dramatically once they get wet and mat varnish was necessary so that the mortar (more casting plaster with a pinch of black) didn't stain the brickwork, which is impossible to remove.