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This chapter is about Dutch scenery.

Just like model trains, scenery too was mostly of German heritage. It was not until the 80's, before Dutch heritage structures were introduced. A lot of non Dutch structures are easily kit bashed to look like a Dutch one. Holland Scale, to my best knowledge, is the first only Dutch structure manufacture. Later Artitec joined the market. Another new company "Tilly models" is another new company specializing in Dutch structures.

The more known brands, like Pola and Kibri, used to have Dutch structures in their assortment.

Kit bashing, a way of remodeling a structure to personal taste, is easily done and gives more variation, since there are not many Dutch structures on the market. Usually a few changes are required to make it appear to be a Dutch structure.

Scratch building, a way to construct a structure your self, is another way to create a Dutch structure, with a true exact look.

These can be mixed with buildings already on the market, or stand alone. By scratch building your structures you create a special layout, and original buildings can be build. Besides structures there are other objects needed on a Dutch layout.

Vehicles, which are plenty to choose from, only need the yellow Dutch license plate's. Freight trucks and busses with Dutch commercials and text. Ships, which are new marketed by Artitec, give the extra dimension.

Also worth mentioning is the set of a Dutch Saint Nick, with his helper. (Sinterklaas en zwarte Piet)

For the railroad we need Dutch signals and caternery. Somerfeld has a assortment of Dutch catenery systems, but becomes very expensive for just a small layout, so scratch building is for most modelers the only way to go. The same is true for signals.

Henckens, another Dutch company, supplies both the older semaphore and lighted signals. And just like catenery systems, signals are expensive, so a little scratch building helps a lot.

Also part of scenery is landscaping like streets, grass, trees water and mountains etc. For each subject there are various ways to work. The same is true for track. Ready to run track with ballast build in or plain track and making your own ballast, even painting the rail rusty.

On different pages I discuss each object.

This page is last updated on 12 August 2008

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