We are now familiar with Thomas Schmid, to the extent that we look forward to a new creation of his almost every year – rather as if he was some famous film director! And every time, Thomas carries us away into his very own world, half-way between dreams and reality. He shows us round highly personal creations, which refer to real secondary railways, of the heritage or industrial varieties, combined with references of a more artistic nature, in the fields of literature, painting or photography. Professionally, Thomas is an architect, so his work consists in turning intellectual designs into something real, while taking account of significant technical constraints. When it comes to modelling, he can forget about those constraints; he can blend universes, scales, forget about gravity and the resistance…