maximilian
03-08-2010, 06:34 AM
Gentlemen, I was encouraged to present my airport model here. :smile:
As early as I received my first Schabak model in 1990, I started building my own airport model. I was seven years old then, so my first model was rather primitive.
Since then, I rebuilt my model very often, always improving it little by little. At some point, I named my airport “Wolkenburg International”, imagining it was located on a German-languaged island in the north sea. When I was 16, the airport was nearly as big as my whole room. Because I wasn’t able to let any guests in anymore, the size had to be reduced again. :wink:
Meanwhile the airport consists of three parts: The "terminal-and-apron"-part, which I presented to Jannis and Frank recently, and two "runway" parts. Each is about 1 m² in size. The parts can either be presented individually or be joined by wooden sticks to one big model (if there is enough space).
At the moment, there is a central terminal building with two piers, one being used by the Star Alliance and another one by all the other carriers. The piers have 14 gates each (9 positions for aircraft sizes up to the 767-300, 1 for up to the A340-300 / 777-200 size, 3 for up to the A340-600 and 1 A380 position). Furthermore there are 5 positions for Regionaljets, but these positions are hardly used at the moment because there aren’t any new smaller jets and props offered in the 1:600 scale (so come on, Schuco, do something!).
Future ideas involve a satellite pier and a third runway as well as a hotel and a railway station. But I’m not sure if I’ll have the time to construct this someday…
Here are some pictures…
As early as I received my first Schabak model in 1990, I started building my own airport model. I was seven years old then, so my first model was rather primitive.
Since then, I rebuilt my model very often, always improving it little by little. At some point, I named my airport “Wolkenburg International”, imagining it was located on a German-languaged island in the north sea. When I was 16, the airport was nearly as big as my whole room. Because I wasn’t able to let any guests in anymore, the size had to be reduced again. :wink:
Meanwhile the airport consists of three parts: The "terminal-and-apron"-part, which I presented to Jannis and Frank recently, and two "runway" parts. Each is about 1 m² in size. The parts can either be presented individually or be joined by wooden sticks to one big model (if there is enough space).
At the moment, there is a central terminal building with two piers, one being used by the Star Alliance and another one by all the other carriers. The piers have 14 gates each (9 positions for aircraft sizes up to the 767-300, 1 for up to the A340-300 / 777-200 size, 3 for up to the A340-600 and 1 A380 position). Furthermore there are 5 positions for Regionaljets, but these positions are hardly used at the moment because there aren’t any new smaller jets and props offered in the 1:600 scale (so come on, Schuco, do something!).
Future ideas involve a satellite pier and a third runway as well as a hotel and a railway station. But I’m not sure if I’ll have the time to construct this someday…
Here are some pictures…