The website is new
After years on ageing technology, Playmofan.ch has been rebuilt — faster, in three languages, with every picture in one place.
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News from the workshop
What I am building, what I am trying out and how it turned out.
A postcard you make yourself
One picture from the gallery, one saying to go with it, and the card is ready to download. How the little builder under Postcard came about, and what it is for.
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A Water Park Beside the Tracks
An aqua park built from a plastic paddling pool, put up over a single September afternoon in the garden — with the railway running straight through it.
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How a raw shot becomes a picture
An afternoon at the garden railway leaves a hundred exposures and one picture in the album. What happens in between, and why measuring sharpness has a trap in it.
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The Gravel Works by the Garden Railway
Real soil, real grit and three November days: how a gravel works grew at the edge of the garden railway — and why the Highland cow had to be in the picture.
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A station in a single day
In the morning the parts were still spread across the carpet; by evening the little station stood lit up beside the track. One winter day, one kit, endless small details.
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From drawing to figure
Five months between the first sketch on screen and a figure that glows from the inside. In between: wall panels, columns and a fair number of failed prints.
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Dinosaurs in the Hobby Room
A walking machine straddling the rails, raptors in the ballast and coloured light from the shelf — how two July days and 76 frames turned into a handful of pictures.
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Real Snow for the Big Ones
XXL figures in a snowed-in garden, a cold November afternoon and a night of drying afterwards — real snow simply cannot be built from a bag.
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