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Paper models, photos and musings of a Paper Kosmonaut

06 October 2019

Hoofdstation Groningen 1/487 (or almost)


Hello people. Here I am again.

There was a lot of other stuff going on which kept me from posting and building regularly. But I did keep on building.
First, the Shuttle stack is momentarily on the back burner, I found out that the SRB's were too large, and I needed to address that issue first before continuing. I have to resize all components and I also want to detail a little more. But I will resume. I don't like unfinished projects. This is what I was working on the last few weeks.


A couple of weeks back, the train station (called “Hoofdstation”) in my city was elected most beautiful station in the Netherlands. And of course that is true. 

(If only that cursed atrocity of a “stadsbalkon”, which lies in front of the building, could be demolished and be replaced with something that shows a little more respect to the old neo-gothic building.)

To celebrate the election of the Hoofdstation, the Groninger Archives temporarily re-issued the big paper model of the station building of which they had a copy in their collection. They digitally scanned it and put it online in the original scale. It is a nice, hand-drawn, but rather tough model of the building. The build report follows below.