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January 20-23 Working on all information that Westmodel provided - f.i. the website of Andreas Lange, moreover all CD's and leaflets I received from Karin Wirtz-Bachmann from 2004-2011, I feel gratitude and a bit pride that I wrote to so many companies in earlier days that do not exist anymore today and in a certain and unforeseen way made me the heir to special photographic material. The firm Westmodel (Klaus and Karin Bachmann) released models from 1973 to 2016. In mid-2016, toolmaking and the production of plastic models were relocated from Vienna to Altdorf, to the Rietze company. Since 2017, the Westmodel company has also been part of Linie8 GmbH as an independent product line.
I wrote on Facebook (23.1.2025):
Als ich in meiner Bibliothek stöberte und nach Informationen zu
besonderen preußischen Altbau-Elloks suchte, stieß ich auf zahlreiche
Umschläge, die ich im Laufe der Jahre über Karin Wirtz-Bachmann (die
Frau von Klaus Bachmann) erhalten hatte. Herbert Schmidt wrote a nice comment on this issue: "Ähnlich wie bei Carl Bellingrodt für das Original wächst hier eine beeindruckende Sammlung für qualitativ hochwertige Fotos der Modelle. Vielleicht gibt's irgendwann ja auch mal Bildbände "Frits Osterthun - Das fotografische Werk". Ich würd's kaufen..."
January 18-19, 2025 Working on the Abyss...
January 5, 2025 Adding a corridor to the Abbey due to an unforseen event... read more!
January 5, 2025 Working oin the Abyss started December 2024 and will continue this year.
5.1.2025
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