Come along and build a miniature model of the city of Äänekoski!
The journey of the miniature model of the city of Äänekoski has been long and full of stages so far. The goal is to have it completed in the next few years. Even when it's unfinished, it already looks great. It is now possible for everyone to participate in the construction of a miniature city model. Everyone can join!
Vanhan Äänekoski Kotiseutuyhdistys has taken responsibility for the project and the city of Äänekoski supports the project, e.g. providing the facilities for its construction. It is also possible to get a targeted grant for a cultural activity for an important project.
- The will of the city of Äänekoski is that this wonderful work should finally be completed, vs. the director of culture and sports Jukka-Pekka Pohjolainen says.
The city of Äänekoski encourages its residents to participate in the project, to do important local work together. One idea has been to display the finished miniature model in the Äänekoski city museum, which is currently being renovated.
Rationing and small inventions
A miniature model of the city of Äänekoski has been dreamed about since the 1950s. In the year 1987 Lauri Mustonen made a miniature model survey and the information was collected for the 1932 city miniature model.
In 2009, Koskela organized a miniature model course, where techniques were taught and Äänekoski's first miniature model from the 1800th century was built as an exercise. It is still stored and it is planned to be brought out in the near future.
Based on Mustonen's survey, the miniature model started to be built in 2010, and the bases and surface forms of the miniature model were built for the first four years. The miniature model is made according to the first site plan of Äänekoski from 1932. The most central area under work is the center of Äänekoski from the factory to the church, and in the future the areas of Pukkimäki, Koulunmäki and Piilolanniemi will also be built.
The challenge is that there are not pictures and drawings of all the houses from that time. Also, there are hardly any photos of the courtyards of the houses, and it is not possible to deduce, for example, the color of the houses from old aerial photographs. A lot of information has been collected from the residents of the area, but a lot has also had to be invented and more pictures and memories are still needed.
It takes a lot of super glue to make. The finished miniature model will include e.g. 850 houses, thousands of trees and "kilometers" of fences. The people at POKE 3D-printed hundreds of small wells in the yards of houses. Everything is very small: on the scale of a miniature model, one millimeter is half a meter in nature.
- There is a lot of proportioning, measuring and drawing in the work. We also make small inventions all the time, when we thought about what material we could make something out of. In the fences, we use a connecting barbed wire intended for the computer, the pines and birches are made from bicycle wire, the project's woodworker Timo Enäkoski tells. The rails of the narrow-gauge railway are made of strips of mosquito netting.
Everyone can come along
Miniature model enthusiasts gather every Saturday from 11 a.m. to 15 p.m. in Suolahti at Suojarinne 5. Anyone interested in crafting, history or their own home region is welcome to join, with a low threshold. Children and young people are also welcome - there is something for everyone and everyone can help promote the project. You can come one Saturday, every week or by agreement at other times.
At this stage, the project is most in need of new creators and pairs of hands, so that the work can move forward quickly. You learn the work by doing, and there is a lot of work in model building that is suitable for beginners. There are both easy work steps or you can build a single entity entirely yourself, such as a single-family house plot with buildings. More experienced enthusiasts are happy to teach and advise.
The finished miniature model of the city can be displayed in its rightful place, and each creator's own handprint can be seen on it for the next generations.
For more information:
Timo Enäkoski, an active enthusiast of the Town Miniatures group, 040 778 6370, marrinkumpu@pp.inet.fi
Vs. culture and sports director Jukka-Pekka Pohjolainen, 0400 189 263, jupe.pohjolainen@aanekoski.fi
News published 21.2.2023, modified 14.5.2024/08/02 at XNUMX:XNUMX