Model Railroad Diorama of Cuba - Scratch Building and Railway Modelling at its Best - On30 Layouts
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- At the great model railway exhibition named On TraXS 2022 in the Netherlands, Samuel de Zutter and Valentijn van der Haegen presented their detailed On30 model train diorama that takes the viewer to Cuba. The small miniature world in O scale, also called On21⁄2, O16.5 or Oe, depicts the typical Cuban landscape with its Caribbean atmosphere.
Those who think of railways and Cuba usually remember documentaries involving the sugar cane harvest, which for decades was brought in by narrow-gauge light railways and steam locomotives. In contrast, Samuel and Valentijn wanted to be inspired by the tobacco industry rather than the sugar cane industry when building their model railway layout. In this way, they wanted to depict the various stages of the tobacco industry, from the tobacco plantation to processing and sales. The result is a double-sided model railroad diorama showing tobacco plantations, straw huts and beaches on the left-hand side and the colourful everyday life in Cuba on the right-hand side. Both sides are linked by a track oval on which a rickety light railway followed by an adventurous-looking tramway run.
However, it is not so much the model trains that are in the foreground, but rather the lovingly detailed and sometimes funny depiction of everyday Cuban life. Here people dance in a bar, there you see workers in a tobacco factory, somewhere the famous writer Ernest Hemingway sits at the window and looks at street musicians standing at the nearby railway crossing. You have to look twice or three times closely to discover the many small details on the model railway layout.
Of course, it should not go unmentioned that Samuel and Valentijn are true experts in scratch building, i.e. they do not use prefabricated parts or kits. They are experts of building scale models from scratch, i.e. from raw materials, rather than building it from a commercial kit, kitbashing or buying it pre-assembled. Therefore, the small their O scale diorama, which has been given the name “Cubana”, is a testimony to a lot of tinkering and creativity.
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A wonderful layout with added humour in its portrayal.
Speachless reality in the video
My god😯
What a very unique theme. The plants are brilliant.
Hands down, the most original layout I've seen for a long, long time. Wonderful!
!!! Woooow !!! Oye chico !!! Que tienes una joya contigo.
This layout it so deeply nice with breathtaking taking details💙💙
Nice looking scratch built layout.
Thanks
Bob
This is really great stuff. I love when people model Latin American and Caribbean narrow gauge themes. 💘
It really captures the atmosphere of Cuba. Also nice use of a Gnomy tram!
Great scenic layout, with such detailed figures, secenery and scratch building work. Bravo and muy bien para todo!! Ha!
Beautiful! I went to Cuba a few years back and this truly captures the feel of that wonderful place. Great work!
Looks VERY authentic! Beautiful! Such a wonderful layout! Bravo!
1:48 best moment of the video 👍👍😂😂
Short but sweet!
This is absolutely amazing you really need to enter this in some kind of competition
c'est vraiment ce qu'on appelle un diorama, fraicheur et exotisme assuré avec ce travail de qualité et aux détails poussés dans tous les domaines ! un des plus beau travail que j'ai pu voir ! l'excellence à son dio ! bravo -
Merci!
Bonsoir ! En effet, cela sort vraiment de l'ordinaire et ça fait plaisir ! 🙂
Lovely work, it is simply beautiful!
The little tobacco train and cigar factory are great details. Also the 57 Chevy and the street scenes. It is a wonderful layout.
Very Nice !!! Well done, And love the Gnomy Street Car.
Wow e bellissimo e grandioso e simpatico 🚊🚋🚞🚓🚗🚂🚃🎪🚄🚍🚈🚇😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Talking about details! Brilliant indeed!
superb; plant life beyond superb
Awesome!
Great!
Oh man, that was fabulous….what a lovely diorama….thank you
O WOW was this great!!!!
Absolutely stunning detail. Beautiful.
Прекрасный макет, в первую очередь прекрасный именно тем, что показывает самобытные декорации, да еще и исполненные с большим трудом. А не очередные приевшиеся альпийские домики из стандартного набора от производителя.
Wat heb je mooi gedaan prachtig gewoon ademt leven zo als het is dit kijk vaker zo mooi yolanda uit Limburg
Автор, спасибо за фильм! Познавательно.
Спасибо за просмотр!
1:52 lol, class. Good detail.
Świetna makieta i z elementami humorystycznymi. Gratuluje.
Wow, Simply Amazing Layout, very painstakingly made, what detailing...
Very Underrated,
Needs More Acknowledgements...
Magnifique évocation
What an original diorama !
Plein des petits fin détails .
The maker has a lot of imagination and skill!
I can smell the Rum and Cigars from here in France!
Très bon travail !
Superb modeling! Very well done and detailed. Love it!
Viva Cuba! Extraordinary diorama, so many details and techniques unsed to built a scene, which is super realistic.
All the best,
Valentin
Simply stunning work ☺️
Tolles Video, mal ganz was anderes und hervorragend präsentiert.
Vielen Dank!
Well that was different, nice to see a different part of the world, loved the figures, wonder where they came from.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
👍👍👍❤❤❤
Soul video. But I saw Hemingway only at the second screening :)
I just noticed that the locotractor has been made from a C-61000 Jouef (or Lima) in H0 scale ! Very ingenious ! 😃
So real! The musical background is also excellently chosen considering the location.👍 I could stand to watch more! Bravoooo!
I am preparing the pictures of this diorama to upload them on my website. You will discover a lot of details, c.f. www.pilentum.org
5:18 If she had a black dress and gloves, it would look like Rita Hayworth from the movie Gilda......Magnífico
The pretty girls are here 5:56 :-)
Thank you from a combine in the wheat fields of Oklahoma. Very entertaining. The Shufflebotham family
Greetings to Oklahoma!
Molto bello, complimenti all'autore. Interessante scorcio di Cuba.
Great work....and effective eferd 👍👌👍👌👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I am in love with the girl on the verandah in the white dress...
Viva Cuba!
What is scale/gauge??? Is very amazing!!🚞🛤🚂❤️😊✌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻.
I love model railroading!!!😍🚂🚞🛤🙌🏻
It is O scale, see description.
Wundervoll/wonderful,many detailled/sehrxdetsilfreudig gestaltet!
Danke für das Lob!
Very Nice !
Hello ! Nice video ! it is really out of the ordinary !
Have a nice week-end 🙂
Merci!
I can taste the mojitos
hey Markus its me maybe you recognize me but i was someone who you met last weekend
Of course, I remember you! I even have a picture of you driving the locomotive. Use my email address post(at)pilentum-television.com and I will send you the picture. Bye, Markus!
Natuurlijk herinner ik me jou! Ik heb zelfs een foto van jou als machinist. Gebruik mijn emailadres post(at)pilentum-television.com en ik stuur je de foto. Groeten, Markus!
@@pilentum ok! :)
Where are the brothels & casinos?
A faithful copy of the Cuban reality with everything very old and torn apart by communism!
Isn't that a bossa nova groove in the background music? Hello, this model is supposed to represent Cuba, not Brazil! I suppose all of Latin America looks the same to Europeans, but nope!
Por el estado lamentable de las construcciones, se ve enseguida que es la Cuba de Fidel.
The layout ia superb only the mediocre and non prototypical "railbus" is ruining it totally.
Yes, the tram is a plastic toy that has been converted for the diorama.
Very nice!