Today I like to show my Faller B-93 station 'Zeven'.

B-93 was a fantastic (early) Faller kit and shows the great talent of the Faller brothers.
It was one of the first 'full plastic' kits, it didn't had an earlier wooden base/roof variant.
B-93 was in the Faller program from 1958 till 1964, a rather short life for a Faller kit.

Now - almost 60 years after it was discontinued - the kit still enjoys a vast popularity and is often the favorite model of Faller fans (as can been seen in the B-93 thread on forum Alte Modellbahnen).

A smart move to keep costs down for Faller, was the use of a modular system, so parts could be used in several kits.
Some parts of B-93 can also be found in other kits, such as 916, 917, 968 ...

I gave up in finding an unassembled B-93 kit, it's just too rare.

But a month ago I did found an assembled B-93 kit with its 1959 box and papers.
The box can easy be identified as 1959, because B-93 was printed in red ink on a yellow background, a feature that only the 1959 box has.
(On boxes dated after 1959, the number was printed on a white background).

The box shows a nice idyllic scene in the usual Faller style of that time.
The kit I bought (in Italy) was assembled in 1960 with a tube of the old Faller PC505 glue by an Italian modeller.
And he did a perfect job. He built it straight out of the box, no paint, no added flowers ...
So on both sides I painted a few bricks and added flowers in the 1950-60 Faller fashion.

I hope you enjoy my pictures.

Marco

Thank you Alan, but I prefer the vintage tube light and keep things analog.
This was the way to go in the 50/60s.
In those years Kibri had a nice lighting set for stations and platforms; Kibri 5830..

I'm not going to cut into the ceiling, I just burn a very small hole in it for 2 fine wires and run those through the roof and through the side building to the underside of the kit.

I'm a 'spielbahner', I'm moddeling vintage modeltrains & layouts and not after achieving realism.

Hi,
I installed the 1950/60 Kibri light.
And created a new problem, a piece of the roof of the main building fell off during my work on the kit (and I haven't found it yet).
I have to address that (as well as the chimney repairs), before I can move on to the next project. (B-275).

This B-93 project didn't cost me much, the kit was € 25 including the super rare 1959 box (which is the only 1959 B-93 box I've ever seen on the web) and the Kirbri light was € 2.00 on the Eurospoor webshop.

Marco