This blog entry was submitted to the 'Aus Freizeit wird Freuzeit – Deine Hobbies 2020' initiative of the modell-hobby-spiel fair, which had to be cancelled this year because of COVID-19.

Quite on time after the end of the spring lockdown, I finished a TT scale diorama, I made as a stay-at-home project during the COVID-19 pandemic curfew. It was designed to fit into an office storage box of which the cover is used as a backdrop. So, it can be conveniently stored away but also carried around to meetings and exhibitions.

The diorama shows a fictitious scene with an old station depot located at a junction at the edge of an industrial area somewhere in the Rust Belt in the 1960s. The interlocking limits controlled by the tower near the depot are only partly shown. The map below shows the cutout to be seen on the diorama. The turnouts and interlocking signals are outside the modelled scene, only the train order signal is present there.

While the depot is a laser-cut kit, the tower is a resin model. Both kits, I bought in the last years at the Lok-n-Roll stand at the modell-hobby-spiel fair in Leipzig. Several times in the past, I had the opportunity to show layouts and dioramas on the Lok-n-Roll fair stand. When making this diorama, I had in mind to show it on the coming fair. Unfortunately, the fair was cancelled due the second COVID-19 wave in fall 2020. Maybe, it will be on display in one of the next years.

The industrial buildings on the backdrop are from Tracksideflats (left) and JoWi Modellbahnhintergrund (right). The picture to be seen in the far background above these buildings is a view of Detroit.

The picture below is linked with a Flickr album on this diorama.