Winter village

When my wife first saw a shining, moving winter village at the mall, she wanted it now. But the price was horrible so I promised her to make myself a better one. It ended with three times more expensive, than the one seen in the shop. Hell yeah!

Building of a village is fully based on railroad modellers scale H0, or 1:87 being precise. A lot of stuff was bought, even more was created manually and using 3D printing.

Some details:

Dimensions: L86xB42xH40cm
H0 scale Buildings: 3D print, models from Thingiverse, except carousel
Houses - all 3D printed DIY
Carousel is DIY project powered by 12V 14rpm motor (slowed to 7rpm by resistor) and lighted by 5x 10mm blinking RGB LED's. Carousel light pattern made with 30m(!) of 0.75 optical fiber.
Fireplace DIY made off PMMA transparent glue, lighted with yellow and orange 3mm blinking LED's.
Patchways, fences, bridges: 3D print DIY
Frozen pond with skaters: DIY on 12V 14rpm motor with gearbox to get two separate rings working in opposite directions
Stream: toilet paper technique
Lanterns: no name, street ones 16V bulb, ski slope 12V LED
Builidings lighting: DIY LED's
Trees: Noch, HEKI and no names, Christmas tree DIY with blinking LED's
Snowed DIY Figures: NOCH, Preiser, Faller
Paints: Vallejo, stream - Humbrol
Snow materials: AK Interactive

Total 14 electrical circuits, 6 of 16V and 8 of 12V, switched each separately. Around 400h of work.

Industrial facility

A diorama ordered by a production company to show in full their industrial facilities.
Made from scratch as 3D printed parts basing on original architectural plans.
To get possibly compact size, scaled to railroad scale N or 1:160.

Aerial view of company