Helllooooo everyone!

First, sorry that i didn’t contribute last week, but i was away for a little holiday to hamburg with my dad, visiting some friends over there. I just came back a few minutes ago and still need to unpack and see what i missed during that time. So my hobby pledge for this week is just: try to get some sort of hobby in, whatever i’ll find time for.

Well one could say a pledge from last week was to go to the Miniaturwunderland (Miniaturewonderland), a gigantic world of model trains (as of now they have sections for hamburg, bavaria, the alps in switzerland and austria, parts of the usa with the grand canyon, las vegas and florida (i guess), scandinavia, venice and rome. Their next project is Monaco and after that the british or irish coast.) Here are some few impressions, and @lloyd maybe you want to look at these too:

this was just in a showcase where they show their terrainbuilding with the same place just in different time periods.

some pictures from their usa-section:

this one was in germany

different places along their alps:

a concert from DJ Bobo, and yes those are all tiny minis:

i don’t remember where this was, but it looked nice:

In Scandinavia they have a river with real water and gigantic ships moving on it, in germany they have a gigantic airport with planes starting and landing. And details everywhere, too much to see in just one visit. If you ever get the chance to come to hamburg, i recomend a visit there.

On to the questions:

1.) During my childhood halloween was almost not existant in germany, we knew it just from some american tv shows. In the last few years it became bigger, but it’s far from what it is in other countrys. There are some halloween partys, but kids going trick or treeting is not seen very often. And my personal opinion is that i’m fascinated by the historic roots of it all, but i couldn’t care less about the modern halloween and all the commercial apsects of it.

2.) to tell the truth it has to be one of those handles to hold your mini during painting. I don’t want to miss mine, even if it is “just” the one from GW.

3.) i would hope that the idea of national territory and identiy will fall away, but that traditions remain. That we have our traditions, but just think of ourselves as terrans and not americans, germans, chinese etc. A bit like in one of my favorite novell-series Perry Rhodan.

Tunes … maybe those will be torture for some/most of you, but since i visited the musical for the lion king during my trip to hamburg, well some of those songs i can’t get out of my head.

and to mix it up a little bit: