In this Christmas season

We have now started the last month of the year and the hunt for this year’s Christmas presents has begun. Besides that, today is also Model Railway Day.

Therefore, we had better update today’s delivery status – I must make it clear that it is a current status and it can change.

Unfortunately, the delays at the factory continues, but there is hope.

Approx. On 17 of December, our small Q wagons with brakehouse, ØSJS and HHJ will get here – whether they will arrive before Christmas is uncertain, but otherwise they will be handed over to the dealers between Christmas and New Year.

In the Christmas days, the OHJ BDn wagons will be dispatched and will therefore most likely arrive in the first week of January.

Our long-awaited CM wagons are in line of productions after the BDn wagons and we hope they can be completed before the Chinese New Year, so that we can deliver them at the beginning of February, otherwise it will be around the end of February, beginning of March.

The 2nd edition of the SJ Kö wagons is expected to be fully assembled just after Chinese New Year and will arrive in Denmark at the beginning of March.

We expect to have SJ Hbis home during the month of April, as I am hoping we get them home by boat.

Kustpilen (Y2) will probably not be here until Q2 2023 as it seems.

I must be honest and recognize that all these constant delays are hard on Dekas and our finances, and this means that it currently takes a little longer before new projects are put into tooling.

After all, I hope everyone has a happy December, and perhaps there is still room for some Dekas models under the Christmas tree 😊

First test of the TMZ locomotives

A few weeks ago, we unveiled our next locomotive model, which is the TMZ (Swedish version of the Danish Mz). Initially, we will release the current variants from VIDA, Tågkraft and TX-logistics.

The model is a completely new construction, and we have, among other things, been in the field to measure angles and windows, so that we can create a good model. The body is, like our other locomotives, in metal and with lots of separate parts. Technically, it follows our TMX loco with 5-pole motor, lights in the driver- and engine room, curve sound cencor etc.

We expect the models to be released in Q3 2023, but with reservations.

Below are some pictures of our first sample.

A time when much is changing

Deliveries:

This week, the last TMXs (VIDA and Tågkraft) have been shipped from the factory and are on its way by plane. We are therefore hoping to be able to deliver them at the beginning of next week (week 37)

Unfortunately, production is going a little slower than expected, (though still much better than in 2021 – a year with very few deliveries). Next month, however, the factory will open a new department for spray painting, tampon printing and assembly – which means that our production capacity will approximately double, so when we round the New Year we should be up to full speed again.

Because of this, we have the following delivery dates for the presented news:

CM passenger cars: October/November 2022

QGR with brake housings: November/December 2022

Y2 Kustpilen: Q4/2022

The current delays means that we have pushed our new catalog to mid-October 2022.
But I can already reveal that there are new models in the pipeline – both for traction and wagons.

Dekas in the future:

Unfortunately, our CAD designer during past 5 years – Allan – has chosen to seek new challenges and will start on a new education as carpenter at the end of October. I wish him the best of luck with it all and thank him for the great work he has done at Dekas – he will definitely be missed. However, Allan does not disappear right away, as he continues on part time during the first six months of the education.

Because of this, I have been considering a lot about what the future of Dekas should be. Until now, the biggest part of our daily work has been drawing and producing for others, and our own models have been something we did occasionally, when the time was right. However, I can see that our own models are experiencing a great rise in popularity, while at the same time as OEM it is difficult to make a profit on with the rising inflation. In addition to that, there is the task of finding a replacement for Allan – skilled model train designers is not easy to find, and training a new one will take a long time and cost a pretty amount of money.

I have therefore made the decision to not take on a new designer, and at the same time cutting down on new OEM productions, and instead focus most of the resources on our own Dekas products.

So, despite fewer people, we’re going full steam ahead and I’m looking forward to presenting our upcoming news for October.

Kasper Bang Jensen

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