I'm thinkin' these guys were at the front of the line when skills were passed out, and also they have waaaaay too much time for modeling! Very impressive. George V.
The first question that comes to mind is just what scale the diorama and cyclist are? I suspect he is at least O and perhaps larger, maybe G. To be articulated in the manner seen here, he would definitely have to be much larger than HO. Likewise, from the background sound in parts of the video I suspect that this is a display in something like a museum setting, probably not on any privately owned model railroad. Considering such institutions employ clever professional model makers, perhaps this accomplishment really isn't all that amazing, at least in their profession. NYW&B
Actually you're incorrect on both counts. If you read the YouTube descriptions, it was made by a Dutch modeler named Loek Bronkhorst who has had his 1927-era HO scale module (it's supposedly only one square meter large) on display at various model train shows around Europe. The setting in my video link was a model railway show in Houten, Netherlands and Hoochrunner's link was from a model railway show in Birmingham, England called the Warley Show. If you google Loek Bronkhorst's name, you'll see pics of some great stuff he's done (nearly all the pages are in Dutch though). Even if it was made by professionals, such a thing should be appreciated and inspiring to us all. I mean the lunar module was built by professionals...did that mean that landing a man on the Moon was no big deal?
