About Me

info about me, Henrik Laurell

My name is Henrik Laurell and I live with my family in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden, north of Europe. I have several interests, this site is dedicated to one of them, Trains.

Trains

ScaleModels is my major hobby today. I have had my interest for trains since teenage. For a very short time all trains were of interest, but soon I did get in contact with narrow gauge trains and specially military field railways. Since then this and small industrial railways has been my prototype for all my models.

As a child I did collect matchboxes. There labels are almost as many as there are stamps. This and the feeling of a real small wooden box with matches, early got to me. Not the newer ones which was made of paper. I never used my matches, I did handle them with utmost care. Later then trains did take over, of course a match factory was my number one industry for my trains.

In periods I also had a special love for model boats, I still do, but I do not like to have to many projects going on at the same time. Therefore boats has to wait a couple of years. It might come back some day...

For many years I have been an armchair modeller. When raising a family with now three teenage boys, time are scarce. But now and then I had been lucky to fulfil a model project. Also, the house we live in now is the first place there I actually had room for a real layout. Previously it has been mostly TimeSavers and display sets. On these new pages I will continue to present new and old projects of mine.