The club was founded by me (Danny Jeppesen) in 2006. There are two active members in the club: Stefan and myself. Stefan handles all the electrical work and electronics, while I take care of everything else. The entire layout is solely owned by me.
The club’s layout consists of 46 straight modules, each measuring 75×120 cm, and 19 curved modules, each 100×100 cm. As of October 1st, 2024, 55 out of the 65 modules are ready for exhibition. The layout is designed to fit rolling stock from Era II to Era IV.
On my layout, I aim to depict, among other things, the transportation of Wehrmacht equipment during World War II. I strive to represent this as historically accurate as possible, using historical photos as references during the construction of both the models and the layout.
I use 1:32 scale model trains (Gauge 1), mainly from KM-1, Kiss, and Märklin. The Wehrmacht equipment consists of plastic models in 1:35 scale from Tamiya, Revell, and Trumpeter, which I have assembled, painted, and weathered myself.
The harbor crane, coal crane, PZ 72B armored train, and the railway cannon are all scratch-built models in 1:32 scale.
I have 16 locomotives and over 80 wagons, around 45 of which are loaded with Wehrmacht equipment. Two wagons belong to the staff train, and 10 make up the armored train.
The rest are various freight and passenger cars, including 10 that represent a Bundeswehr military transport of tanks, and 4 cars forming a CityBahn passenger train from the early 1980s.
The reason I also have rolling stock unrelated to the Wehrmacht period is that, particularly in Germany, I sometimes choose not to run my Wehrmacht trains at exhibitions.
All locomotives and wagons are weathered to give, in my opinion, the most realistic impression of how such transports would have looked.
On the layout, you can also see many train sets, such as a Spur-1-exclusive 90-ton steam crane, a passenger train, a scratch-built Bruno railway cannon, as well as coal and other freight cars. My Bundeswehr military train and CityBahn passenger train also often make a run around the layout.
The club’s layout consists of 46 straight modules, each measuring 75×120 cm, and 19 curved modules, each 100×100 cm. As of October 1st, 2024, 55 out of the 65 modules are ready for exhibition. The layout is designed to fit rolling stock from Era II to Era IV.
I’m trying to recreate how the Wehrmacht equipment looked during World War II through historical documentation. However, it often requires a certain amount of creativity because there are usually only black and white photos available. So, I have often had to guess the colors.
The weathering that I create, in my opinion, helps to provide a better sense of reality of how locomotives, carriages, and structures might have looked back then.
I have extensively used visual material from the time around World War II in the creation of my Wehrmacht material. I now have over 70 books on the Deutsche Reichsbahn and the German Wehrmacht. It is from this material that I have found original photographs and descriptions.
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