my name is Christian
I'm a joiner here in the Miniatur Wunderland, for fourteen years
the Miniatur Wunderland is the biggest model exhibition in the world
It's amazing, we started as a team with around fifty people
now we are four hundred people
one million people come every year to visit us
that's amazing, that's why i'm working here.
as a joiner, when you build something for a bedroom, only two people will see what you have build
and here are coming one million people
everybody gets out with a smile and that's so cool
i love it
our scale is between 1:78 to 1:120
so in one ride we have about 300 LEDs
that's unbelievable
so, we have airplanes who can fly
many cars who can drive
it's amazing
I'm Michi, im thirty years old
I'm working in the Wunderland for five years now
where all of us are really proud to work
I'm a carpenter
i thought i would love to work more creative so i studied industrial design
then i started to work here, because its design model building
tools that i normally use in my workflow are at first computer stuff
Rhinoceros CAD software
and then we go milling with a big CNC mill
and afterwards do a little handwork with a circular saw and such
at the moment i'm working on the funfair
we build a huge, new funfair
we have already one, but it's kind of oldish and we want to replace it
there i do some under construction work
you know playing the table
the Process is a little bit complicated
because in this funfair stuff it's mostly bought model kits
So it's really hard to say how big these exactly are
so we have to be, yeah really like free in our process and placing stuff
we often build with photos
we have the problem, that we have to enough space
so we have to say: ok we only can build this building or this building
you can see here some pictures
this is a funfair in Hamburg
so we take a lot of photos
then it comes, and we draw it on the platform
and then we do it in Rhino so it's easier to plan for us in 3D
so this is the poin where the Origin is in the Process
so we can cut out directly and place it just in time
so we have a really, really, kind of free process to make things
finish things, and place them afterwards
and that's a really good tool to be creative
in the funfair we make like pockets to set things flush they have an, yeah kind of aluminum baseplate
so it's easy to take them out, take them to the workbench and repair them or something
so we have to do a lot of planning
and now we can just work in time
if something's ready i can take it, measure it out, just make the pocket and yeah
yeah this is actually the funfair part, the table you can see down there
this is the planning i make for the table
and all these parts i have made on the CNC mill
this part for example
and the cutouts for the attractions are these
everyone of these things has it's own aluminum plate
so we can just take it out
i have used the Origin to just make these cutouts exactly
its quite good to use a computer based handtool to make these cutouts
normally we make like this plate on the CNC mill and can see the final result in real life just at the end
now we have the opportunity to make these cutouts in the process
and have diractly, like visual feedback or something of what we're working on
so i was really happy to see innovation in the carpentry works
which is not normal to have innovations like this
for me different in working, because i just did modeling stuff
and nowadays i do construction stuff
so i think having a tool like this is more interesting for me nowadays then in the past
it's just normal to try to reach another level in accuracy or in detail working for us
because i think it's challenging and we try to getting better and better and better
from the start to the end we often need four years
first plan or drawing plans for the trains
and then plan the under construction
and then all the people from the electric come on
and say: yes i want to have this way for my cable
so for months and months more people come to the project
so in Monaco (the exhibition) we have, i think, eight people who draw the buildings
and in the exhibition, only five people who will set buildings and mountains because we don't have space
when i work here, no one has space to work with me in this area
so Monaco is the first one we draw with Rhino completely
because it's easier to bake in so many buildings
we never have build so many buildings we want to build 100 percent
so that when people come from Monaco, they visit us and see their building
they can say: hey, thats my building, that's my house
so that is for us...
heres the Origin perfect, we can make it on the place where we work
often we need a CNC
but a lot of the CNC is more for plastic and for buildings
so it's perfect fo me as the joiner i can make everything here
normally when we're building we can't move it, there is no chance
I'm so happy with the Origin because i can make little things along
i draw it, put it on the machine and start it
so that's so cool
and this machine works with millimeters
it's perfect, because i don't need templates
i love the machine
for the big machine i would like to say
that we make ninety percent with the big machine and ten percent with the Origin
often it's so that the last ten percent you need for the hundred percent
i think the Origin is a nice extra tool for us in the joinery
I'm Tino
so we want to build a new road
because we have a lot of streets and this is another level
so we need to shape the road from this level to this level
looks really good
perfect
if i have the possibility to take this, i always take this
because you can take your curves and lines directly from a CAD
and work on every place where you have a flat area
you need no other templates and can directly work where you want
really, first i thought it was fake but it's really cool and crazy
the most important difference between this machine and the Origin
is maybe that you can't bring this machine to the construction site and work
you have to make a lot of planning to get an actual result out of it
especially making woodwork it's kind of a oneshot
if it doesn't fit you have to start over
and yeah with the Origin you can just if you like to do a pocket or hole or something
you can just say: okay i do it now!
kind of a miracle that the Shaper tool will find itself
and when i use it, will find the pockets and holes i made in the past
which is kind of a miracle to me
this is really great, i can make some recuttings or change depths and stuff
i think the main point is that you can work with Origin on the constructions site itself
and with this, yeah you don't
often we build the exhibition, and then i see: ok i need a new street
and the CNC is full and i have to wait, to wait, to wait
so that is a big problem
and with the Origin i have the best machine
that i can use by myself
you only need to tape, scan it, and i can work with the machine
so thats really cool
if we need something detailed, Origin is the next step for me
you can make it at the place where you build
i think the most benefit of Origin is i have a really, really fast process
and doing small work, thats really good
you can draw a little bit on it
so if you want to make a hole in something or a pocket
or even some writing things
yeah, that's really great
It's really easy for me as joiner to say: cool, i have my little CNC for me
the computer helps you to cut on the line perfectly
sometimes we need only a hole which must be perfect
so on this machine you can cut and can test it, and then you can come back with the machine
and saw whats on the display
ok here is the hole
guess we make it a little bit bigger
you can never do with your hand only
so, it's a really cool tool for the rest of the joinery
sometimes i love my job
and sometimes with the trains, i hate it
but when you see the smile on the guests face
you know that was a long way of work here
yes with every new land we have more and more ideas what we can do
and that's amazing, that's why i love my job here
a lot of people ask me this question, i never can describe it
it's always depending on the people which are asking
and everytime it's different about the description about this place
yeah it's just crazy people doing crazy things together that's all that i can say