While we do some very nice work here in the US, we have to admit that these folks also do some wonderful creative masterpieces. I salute them all.
Thanks, Jeff and Pavel, for all those nice close up shots... For those interested, Marklin TV did a nice item on Altenbeken. It is German spoken, but there's enough to see... http://www.maerklin.de/de/journal/maerklin-tv/ cheers, Matt
I was there, but only for a few hours. Wow, it was crowded! It was the end of a five week trip where I delivered some big N scale ships from Ohio to Houston, went on to Decatur, then to Europe. I was pleased that I built most of the ships at Niles Junction and Kniephaven. They are available as kits or built-ups.
Looks like one of the automobiles on the above diorama is a Citroën 2CV, a brand hardly seen out of France... I love it! (reminds me the 1:1 scale sample I've just sold 45 days ago...) Dom
The World record at Altenbeken. The smallest ???? hand breaking device (sorry could not find translation into English). I hope the photo tells the story (yellow item): http://www.hos-modellbahntechnik.de/newsreader/vorlage-news-mit-bildern-text.html http://www.hos-modellbahntechnik.de/weltrekord.html
14-15.04.2018 7th International Z-scale weekend in Altenbeken Germany. I have to start with 2 photos taken on my friend's Maciej Gawecki DCC layout. This is a small layout with Polish rolling stock. SM42 diesel engine is hand made from photoetched parts. The passanger car is Marklin repainted car with PKP decals designed and applied by myself.
Well, Altenbeken was a blast once again. I did meet up with Pawel (Zdrad69), which was very nice. And with Kelly, and Graham, and many others... We drove up there with 3 guys from Holland and had a lot of fun. Even though because of the many road works, driving time went up to 4 hours on our way there and another 4,5 hours back home. Hans got to bed around 1.15 AM I believe.. Germany seems to invest heavily in (repairing) its highway infrastructure these days. Hope you guys allow me to make it easy on myself by providing a link to two photo albums: These are the pictures my friend Arno took: https://myalbum.com/album/GfvLz3hb0eLK These are my pictures (the label says 2016, and that's what it starts with, but scroll down to halfway and you'll find the 2018 photos): https://myalbum.com/album/JIs8XqSv4qkx Below a selection with a few pix that be might particularly interest Trainboard readers: A selection of Pawel's Polish trains: Great weathering by Pawel: Polish MOW tank, used as a crane in case of trainaccidents: More MOW: The railwaystation Pawel reported on earlier is a real looker in real life: Flaggstone East Terminal is a dynamic layout with lot's of details, lights and movement: As is it's builder: How about this, guys? The viaduct above and below is a new kit, developped in coproduction by Archistories and Jörg Erkel (https://www.1zu220-shop.de/). It is modeled after the original in Altenbeken which is one of the longest in Germany. But it could easily represent earlier infrastrucure in Eastern USA states. Hans Ridervold presented an amazing AZL layout of the Moffat tunnel entrance, built by Karl Sinn: This layout featured moving trucks and cranes: Last but not least (spoiler alert), Z scale hobo and Archistories are jointly bringing an American railwaystation: Cheers, Matt
We were pleased to see that also modellers from Czech Republic were building their own models following Czech prototypes and based on Marklin's production. Models were not on a display. Altenbeken is a place in which some people come to show what they have "in the bag": Those models were used on one of German layouts:
Why don't we see these layouts on the big exhibitions???? They have far more quality than many of the HO layouts they show there!
