So, this is it. The start of yet another model railroad project. After having had a layout in H0 scale and N-scale, and now collecting Japanese N-scale, and fool around a bit in Z-scale, it’s time for an entirely new beast.

For a long time I’ve been looking at the larger scales like LGB and Märlin 1-scale. However, while LGB is fun to have running in a garden, it’s not something I would consider for a layout. Obviously the size is impractical, but the rolling stock is on general not very detailed. Märklin 1-scale is divided really, you have locomotives that are amazingly detailed, and their steam engines are great, but on the other hand they also have some locomotives that look very plastic. However, the size again makes it impractical, plus the cost is a bit too high.

Somewhere in between there, there’s 0-scale. Used to be very popular, and at some point it time it was claimed that model trains (or toy trains as they called them then) couldn’t get any smaller. When I saw Lenz was making 0-scale models, I got somewhat interested. I kept it in the back of my head a bit, and looked at their page occasionally. I read some reviews on their first locomotives, which made me even more interested. When they announced a start-set I just knew I had to get one. But before they could release it, I came across the site of Wenz-Modellbau, and after seeing the pictures of their tracks, it didn’t take long for me to order a piece of straight track and all the tools to hand-lay it. Shortly after I received the package, I also ordered my first locomotive, the V100 shown below.

In the next years most likely, I’ll be building some 0-scale things, and I’ll keep a log of it all on this site. Hopefully it’ll be of interest to at least a handful of other people. Enjoy ;)

Lenz V 100 1259 diesel locomotive