Report from the Intermodellbau 2010


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In October 2009 I anounced my little layout "Königzhausen" at the Moba for the Inter Model 2010.  I sent 4 days after the registration deadline the presentation to Mr.. Ebe, who immediately emailed me back all the documents.

At 01.23.2010 he call me on my mobile, "Königzhausen" is in Dortmund, so I was very happy  :-) At this time I has been tested and eliminated all errors.  The last weeks I placed a lot of details, to show what is possible.

On Monday, April the12.. all the parts were loaded and I went along with Manfred to Dortmund. Upon arrival in Hall 4 was unloaded and set up, at the evening the layout was ready to go. Tuesdays we still clipped to the curtain, which was unfortunately too short. Luckily the FkdS-Z o Hamburg had a 10m curtain over. This was immediately suspended on the legs. Gerhard also reached the hall at noon and was briefed on the operation of the control panel. According to recent tests, we were ready for the visitors and were able to watch the bodies of the other exhibitors.

Wednesday it was ready, visitors flocked to the stand and to me most was a small crowd gathered to look at the operation in Königzhausen. One of the first visitors were also people from Eschwege, which was immediately find out the fake of my map. Our resume in the evening, the plant came from the public good, even by HvO looked and noted Königzhausen on its list of filming equipment.

Thursday was the same as the Wednesday, many visitors and many questions and a lot of support.

Friday it was exciting for the first time, the photographer of Miba, Horst Meier, looked over and wanted to photograph. He was immediately smitten and arranged a lot of pictures, take place as the one published shortly, which will be remained unclear whether, in the Monthly Bulletin or in a booklet. Well no matter ;-)

Saturday was the busiest day, as were the children and young people and Holger, with his son, photographed and filmed for Trainini there was no tomorrow (which is also quite a few inquisitive young people held to fiddle with the knobs).

Sunday was again very quiet, which was probably the great weather. At noon Andreas Stierle from Modellbahn TV came to film Königzhausen. Then I was allowed (transpiration... ..) to give an interview, which was already quite difficult (who is already happy before camera. The film material is, for the Märklin year for a performance on DVD, and an presentation for Modellbahn TV. The material is also for Eisenbahn Romantik whether it is used, however, is still in the stars. From 15:30 it was very quiet, so that I could shoot a round through the halls. punctually at 17:00 it was hectic at all classes and it was taken down what the stuff was. At 18:30, all parts loaded in the car and after the adoption of the other participants, we drove back home.

My personal summary of the model train show is:

Königzhausen was a complete success and can not complain about good encouragement. It will arrive the next time some invitations from clubs, so I will probably still have a few gigs (if time permits).

The cohesion and support among the exhibitors (associations or private) is to emphasize, as one big family. My / our special thanks to the FkdS-Z from Hamburg, which are fed and paid attention the fact that we do not starve from sheer stress.

It was a pleasure to meet some poeple of the ZFE forum in person, although probably not all "outed".

Surprising were the many questions from visitors about the digitized vehicles, the prototypical slow and drew their laps. Again and again came the saying, it's so small decoder?? It seems to have not yet talked about, in the model railway world that there is very little decoder and all locomotives are digitizable. Anyway, we were able to (afford hopefully) appropriate Endwicklungshilfe.

It was surprised that my concept with a Spitzkehrenbahnhof, implement of locomotives and rank, in Z is feasible. The perfect König tracks were admired again and again. And many liked it that the tracks are  in the landscape and not the landscape is between the tracks, but what is also highlighted by the backdrop. The many details that I can show you our low-volume producers sentimental, contributed to the harmonious overall picture.

There were almost no problems, except one Conrad Drive, but was replaced in the evening. Another one had to be reattached and the decoder of the V36 being bitchy around on Saturday, which was surprising. The Digital Equipment also works very well and the company MDVR support our equipment to eliminate the bugs.

There were 5 great and stressful days of the show, which I do not want to miss, and I repeat, perhaps in a few years ago.

Thanks also to Manfred and Gerhard for their help during the fair

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