Hobby Model Expo 2003

Trheingold attended the HOBBY-MODEL-EXPOexhibition, model train specialized show, held at Novegro - near Milan Linate airport – from September the 26th to the 28th; the exhibition, traditionally held at the beginning of the autumn, is the biggest Italian model train show and the most important national appointment of the sector.

In spite of a small decrease of attendees, the public has constantly put pressure on the exhibitors. Besides the steam engine locomotives, ever more requested, with the absence of many clubs’ layouts, with the disappointment of public due to the missing novelties of the train model manufacturers, this edition of the exhibition has seen the collapse of the market control from the big industrial manufacturers, all to smaller and younger companies’ benefit; it has highlighted the triumph of plastic and the revival of the Italian model style production. Many stands were there to be seen with exciting new products, some of which were already published and awaited anxiously.

This exhibition was the first that Trheingold officially attended and the high number of public was able to appreciate the low floor brief distance travel coach model prototypes not fully completed at that moment. Due to the long and complex development of these coaches, the public’s expectation had to be exceeded. “It’s not easy at all to manufacture a train model starting from zero, especially if someone wants to manufacture a model with innovative characteristics [] And it looks like the long wait will be soon rewarded by a model with some very important features, such as the bogies equipped with the two metal sides free to pivot guaranteeing a safer and smooth movement even on tracks not really well laid” [Magazine Tutto Treno No 169 November 2003 page 53].

Body shells, windows and other details were exposed inside the show windows; at the HME Trheingold exposed also a part of the mould of the metal chassis that developed excitement with the public present at the exhibition.

The official body shells, complete with windows, were painted and stamped for the exhibition. Also the bogie is the official version and it is composed of thirteen (13) parts (two metal sides, bogie frame, two metal bogie side fixing pins, brake system reproduction, chassis fixing pin, two coupled axles with two wheels, complete with the reproduction of the disk brake, and axle.

The pictures can tell you more than words.

Isostatic bogie

Low floor coach body shell

Low floor coach body shell - detail

Trheingold charter members (from left to right) Marco, Andrea and Francesco

Trheingold staff (from left to right) Federica, Alessandra, Francesca

Stand

Trheingold team

Show window

N scale show window - Tibidabo

The whole Trheingold team has tried to answer to the many questions from the public with the hope to have been able to clarify any doubt; in case you may need any further information or answer, please contact us at the following address info@trheingold.com