Miniature World !!!

All men come from small boys, they say. In fact they also go on to say that perhaps within each man there is a small boy who refuses to grow up! Guess thats true in my case and i have fully utilized this psychological expert's statement to justify my fascination towards scale models of vehicles. In short toy cars and bikes. Not to forget buses, trucks, planes, ships, cranes, bulldozers, harvesters etc and whatever moves.

I have been playing with model cars since childhood, but never thought i would get into serious collection. Its merely coincidental that i started hoarding my dinkies, never allowing outsiders to touch them, washing and servicing them every sunday and ended up with some 12 - 13 shiny cool collectibles at the age of 8.

Seeing dad waxpoling our bike, i started polishing these cars also and sometimes even gave them a touch of paint whever required.

With each passing year, each birthday saw more additions to the cars. Each academic achievement saw more additions, Thanks Ma Baba; love you for that.. Some i even managed to flick off some of my friends and proclaimed them to be belated friendship day gifts.


















Slowly; The collection started getting more and more versatile. I first got a Model Bike as a gift from Satish, a childhood friend as soon as i got my first job. It was a BMW R 1200, and that triggered off the sequence of collecting more and more bikes.

Model Aircraft collection started off when i made a 1:144 scale model of my favourite aircraft, the MiG 21. AWESOME Aircraft despite its rather sad track record. This was perhaps the first Fighter Jet i ever saw up close and personal, and hence the fascination.

Trucks, trains, buses etc happened parallelly.

And dekhte dekhte aaj mere paas 650 se bhi jyada models ho gayein.

Well, I was deeply humbled when i managed to visit the Miniature Railway Museum n Pune. This was the brainchild of Mr B.S Joshi also knwn as BhauSaheb Joshi hailing from Pune. My Grandpa, the gentleman behind my fascination towards the mechanical world, knew Mr Joshi and had asked me to visit this museum at least once in my lifetime. I got an opportunity and went there. I was simply floored by the awesome manner in which a whole city has been built all from small mechanical parts. Its a huge city with train, cars, highways, ropeways, baloon, circus, factories etc.

The other exhibit is a 1:500 scale Airport with anumber of aircraft, including the CONCORDE.

WOW. What an experiance.

Its fun to be living in and around this miniature world. Its fantastic and feels so damn special. Gives a certain amount of life to your spirit. Gets you back into childhood and imagination.

See my viewpoint of the miniature world HERE.

Read more about the Museum HERE