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Carwitz IV

2011-10-04T23:54:00.000-07:00

My new Layout is here:
http://germanrail.8.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=4833

Fakultativwagen 4#

2011-09-12T12:57:00.000-07:00

By chance I found a surviving Fakultativwagen. This car is now stationed at a Berlin enthusiast railclub: Märkische Kleinbahn AG, located in the southern part of Berlin. I was not allowed to go much closer nor to climb the exhebit.

Prussian freight

2010-10-07T23:35:00.000-07:00

Some days back I started the detailing of two prussian freightcars.
The whole story is here...

http://austauschbauart.blogspot.com/

Cheers
Peer

Austauschbau Art

2010-09-02T06:52:00.000-07:00

My second blog is here...

http://austauschbauart.blogspot.com/

Thank you!

Peer

Engelsdorf

2009-08-17T01:51:00.000-07:00

Engelsdorf is located in the eastern outskirts of Leipzig. From the days of Era1 Engelsdorf was of high significance for rail traffic in the Leipzig region. Engelsdorf was famous for its huge shunting yard, its roundhouse and the workshop.

I found this scene in the quite instructive book Sächsische Eisenahnen auf alten Ansichtskarten by Claus Schlegel. This book is a fine collection of rail related postcards from the Royal Saxon times.

The structure is made of plasticard. The window frames are from company Auhagen. The model is painted with acrylics and weathered with artist chalk.

World War One - Tank Car

2009-04-06T00:57:00.000-07:00

Found this tankcar in the really instructive book „Güterwagen Archiv I“ (Transpress, Berlin GDR). This vehicle was build in 1915 and saw use with the Transportation Corps in World War one.

Model is from Sachsenmodell with some changes here and there.

Off Topic ?

2009-03-26T04:30:00.000-07:00

I bought this one here in the mid nineties as I recall. It is the model of an armoured railcar used by German Army in WW2 (Pardon – no era one). The model is a resin kit by model company “Attack” of Czech Republic. Scale is 1:72. Fitting wasn’t quite fine and details are low – so the kit was sitting around in my workbench trough the years.
This winter I did some research on Zarist and Soviet armoured rail vehicles and build this one here for fun. A friend of mine gave me a Panzer III turret of Company Revell that was much better in detail than the resin offering. The crewmembers are by Company Preiser, multipose figurines painted with artist oils and acrylics.

Industrial Layout

2008-11-24T23:50:00.000-08:00

My industrial Layout is here...

http://germanrail.8.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=2515
klick

"0" - car reflections

2008-10-12T23:46:00.000-07:00

Some older 1:87 O-cars.

Saxon 35056 (PIKO)
Gutehoffnungshütte 2081 (Märklin)
source: Jakobs, Manfred: Historische Güterwagen. Berlin 1985
Prussian Berlin 31256 (PIKO)
Actors: Preiser

Lucky not to be destroyed

2008-09-15T02:02:00.000-07:00

Prussian ES 2

ES 2 was an early Prussian electric locomotive design. ES 2 has two sisters (ES 1 and ES 3). It was built in 1911 by HANOMAG. Electric parts were supplied by AEG. ES 2 saw some test runs in passenger traffic on the Dessau-Bitterfeld line. After World War 1 the machine was used in southern Germany (Baden).

In 1928 the loco was delivered to the Bau- und Verkehrsmuseum (Berlin Hamburger Bahnhof). After World War 2 it was left in the open and no one really cares about it. Some 40ty years later it was found in this desperate condition and it was handed over to the Berlin technique museum.

Several times I was told ES 2 was scrapped. Buy surprise I found it remains this September weekend at the outer depot of Berlin Verkehrsmuseum. Light was poor and also my camera.

Fakultativwagen #3

2008-08-13T05:38:00.000-07:00

Frankfurt 6002 was the second Fakultativwagen to rebuild. Klaus Dieter Pfennig of http://www.dit-modell.de/ allowed me to use a 1915 field post card of his collection. A really interesting prototype. Lettering was done with DIN Letters of TL Decals. The Prussian heraldic is from Ostmodel. Länderbahnen buffers by Company Weinert.

Frankfurt 6002 was seen in a World War 1 scene. I tried to the have a WW1 athmosphere with Lt. Ernst Udet and a trench mortar in front of the railcar. The other scenes are more peacefull.

Fakultativwagen #2

2008-08-12T07:25:00.000-07:00

All started out in 2002 with the 1:87 release of Brother Fleischman’s Fakultativwagen. The available Model was an Era 2 vehicle from the mid 1930ties. I thought to backdate the model to a vehicle of the pre World War 1 era. Emil Konrad´s breaking book „Die Reisezugwagen der deutschen Länderbahnen“ (Here: Band 1: Preußen. Stuttgart 1982) is a great source to Länderbahnen rolling stock. I found a good pictorial source here and the backdating job was straight fore ward. An article of the building was published in “Länderbahnforum” of Tobias Frydman. Check out here: http://www.lbforum.com/lbf2-03.pdf

Some pictures of the build have never been published so I will post them here.

The finished vehicle:

Fakultativwagen #1

2008-08-12T06:10:00.000-07:00

Back in the 1880 German Länderbahnen asked for a certain type of railcar that could be used in freight, postal and passenger traffic. Those multi-purpose or optional cars were called Fakultativwagen (not only a strange term to the British tongue). During the timeframe from 1890 to 1920 Fakultativwagen were the back bone in branch line and rural traffic.
In passenger service those cars were mixed up with standard passenger coaches. In its freight role, they served as baggage vans, transported boxed goods and postal cargo. Because of its multipurpose factor those Fakultativwagen were also of great interest for military use. Saxon rail administration kept all Fakultativwagen (around 250 railcars) as planning reserve for military operations.
During the last years Fakultativwagen thrilled me. I researched much, - build and re-build several Fakultativwagen. Most of the results were seen on epoche1.de. Within the next days I will post some of this material here.

CARWITZ - Watertower

2008-04-28T05:30:00.000-07:00

The Auhagen product range is just great for customizing and having individual models. I modified the "official" water tower slightly adding new brickwork plastic cards. Scripture is done with Letraset.

For the paint I ´m using artist acrylics. First is a water thinned white wash to fill in the brick-spaces. This should dry for several hours. For the second step I am mixing umbra tones with plain red. I am not adding water - so paint is realy dry. Painting is done with a flat brush. Finaly I am highlighting single stones with even more colour. This adds texture. I ´m realy pleased with Windsor and Newton acrylics.

Finally: CARWITZ is a fictive place.

"Schweinerei" around 1910

2008-04-15T06:42:00.000-07:00

During some research on livestock transportation in era 1 I found a great book about Berlin central stockyard. "Berlin Central-Viehof, Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 1996". There’s a really interesting picture in that book. It shows a transporting situation at the central yard somewhere around 1910 (see picture. 1). Found the situation close and dramatic. This picture is “moving” in many ways so I tried to reproduce it. The G car is Brother Fleischman’s Prussian Altona. I reworked it (new buffers, new lettering, something here and there) to have Gm “Posen 9092”. All actors are Preiser made.

Berlin Potsdam anniversary #1

2008-04-15T02:05:00.001-07:00

The Berlin – Potsdam railroad line was launched in September 1838 as the first Prussian line. Following Nürnberg-Fürth (1835), Dresden-Leipzig (1837) it was the 3rd operational line in Germany. This year we celebrate its 170 anniversary.
Well - some archaeology: What is remaining und what is still visible?
Let me start here with the railroad workers settlement of Lichterfelde West. This four building settlement was raised in the late 1870ties for the rail workers of Prussian Railroad. This settlement survived the years in a really fine condition.

Cambrai 1917

2008-04-09T06:25:00.000-07:00

Late World War One. In late November 1917 some 470 hundred British tanks attacked German held positions in the area of the northern French village of Cambrai. This attack was the first coordinated tank mass attack in history. Using these new terrifying machines the British army tried to break the German lines. Hopes were around to drive the occupants back from Belgium and northern France. Those new war machines had a shocking impact on German defenders. British troops gained early success but German counterattacks slowed and repulsed the attack. In the aftermath some 250 abandoned and knocked out vehicles were left in the Cambrai sector. Some 100 of those tanks were recovered by the Germans.

This is my rendition of tank number I -36 that was lost in the Cambrai sector. I found the picture in an old World War One book, published by company Bong & Co in the early 1920ties. The British tank is by company EMHAR in scale 1:72. The railcar is company Fleischmann. I re-worked the lettering using single letters of company TL Decals.

Krakow am See

2008-03-20T03:42:00.000-07:00

Being a part of the Guestrow-Plau Line Krakow am See Station was raised in 1882. Like many Mecklenburg stations it was build / owned by Company Lenz & Co. Lenz handed this line over to the Mecklenburg Friedrich Franz Eisenbahn in 1890.

In December 2006 I visited Krakow am See by chance. Light was poor this day for taking pictures but Krakow was always on top of my archaeological visiting list. I took some fotos of the station and of the goods shed. The station seems to bee in a good condition but the shed is more on the desperate side.

1./2. The porticus

3. Some details

4. Station from track side

5. to 8. The goods shed

Welcome!

2008-03-18T04:42:00.000-07:00

Welcome to epoche1!

The internet based webzine epoche1.de was launched in 2002 with the aim of becoming a place to share and debate aspects of German railroad era1. It was a place for modellers, artists, collectors and historians. It was also a place to present my approach in modelling to a wider and hopefully interested community. Meet many people from across this planet during the days of epoche1.de. Frequently this site has around 2.000 visitors per month. I guess that means 60 or 70 people know what you are doing and I enjoyed this small but active community very much.
Epoche1 de is now history. It’s down for several months and several reasons. Some of you guys outside asked me to give epoche1.de another chance and to relaunch it. Guys! Thank you very much for that but … yes – and no. No, I didn’t have the nerve to put it back in 1:1. Yes I wanted to try something new.
This blogging thing is something new to me. My hopes go out this place will be informative and interactive, lively and amusing, easily accessible and appealing to those interested in German railroad era one. For me this blogging thing implies “I am counting on YOU”. Drop me notes and mails. Ask me. Comment on what I am doing.
Welcome to epoche1.

Peer Donner