Turner (2019) writes about his childhood dream of his perfect miniature world. He imagines the tracks he would build still to this day, every night. For him, the world of modellers is misunderstood as a “a bunch of sad anoraks” (Tuner, 2019). Instead, he sees the model train world as “a space in which masculinity and metal health can be positively explored, a novel and creative form of #selfcare” (Turner, 2019). The miniature worlds, that these men build for themselves, allow stronger emotional connections then their live-sized originals (Stonies, 2016, p.195). They seem to want to build a better world through these model railroads, which they put in contrast to the reality (Stonies, 2016, p.195). The hobby is used as an escapism from daily life (Stonies, 2016, p.195). This stronger, emotional connection is legitimized by seeing it as a technical toy, that crosses the spheres of an aesthetic one, ignoring the fact, that it is still a ‘cuter’ version of its original (Stonies, 2016, p.195).