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Just restarted this hobby from childhood time. Now being 46 there is still so much to explore.

Living in the WWII Market Garden area (I can see ‘Bridge Eleven’ through the window when I’m building) at first I tried to focus on models used during that famous operation. The last few months I’ve working on some early 20th century vehicles as well.

Zvezda KV-1 1/72

The past weeks I have read a lot about Stalingrad, for instance in Jonathan Littels novel ‘The Kindly Ones’ and these days in Vasili Grossman’s ‘Stalingrad’. That inspired me to build this KV-1 in 1/72. My first experience with [...]

Dragon 10.5cm Sturmhaubitze Ausf.G 1/72

After my first positive experience with Armour in 1/72 scale, I decided to focus more on these smaller models. Besides being able to practice weathering, it also brings some welcome distraction every now and then, during larger projects, [...]

Meng Sd.Kfz.171 Panther Ausf. A Early 1/35 Wiking

My first build with winter camouflage finish. After a friend of mine recommended the autobiographical novel “De Stamhouder” (“The lineage holder”) by Dutch writer Alexander Münninghoff, I decided to use it as inspiration for this [...]

AMX Mk. 61 105mm Self Propelled Howitzer (1/72)

Just a few days before he underwent major heart surgery my father in law told me about his military service. During that time he was trained to drive an “AMX-tank”, but this being more than 50 years ago, unfortunately he didn’t [...]

German Baureihe 52 with Steifrahmentender, Schwere Plattformwagen and King Tiger (1/35)

This should be my masterpiece since restarting the hobby about a year ago. What a build (and work) is has been. But I’m very happy with the result. This summer I was able to buy the Trumpeter Baureihe 52 mit Steifrahmentender (00210) for [...]

Roden Albatros D.III (OAW) 1/32

After reading Hemingways A farewell to arms I got inspired to build a WWI aircraft. I chose the Albatros and painted it in the Jasta-scheme. The first part of the build was really enjoyable, even more because of the Quinta Studio [...]

WWII German Ambulance Truck V3000S/SS M Maultier with Shelter (ICM 35414 1/35)

This beautiful kit has waited some time in my stash to be built. WWII trucks more and more apear to be my favorite. While working on it I bought a portable airbrush set, to gain some experience with that. Eventhough I’m still working on [...]

B-type London Omnibus 1919 (1/35) with passengers and crew

The last few weeks I’ve been working on this lovely bus, part two of my ‘Downton Abby’-series. A few models before this one I built an old Renault AG (ICM) which was a lot easier than this one by MiniArt (38031). Especially the [...]

Norton Manx 500cc1952 (Italeri 1/9)

When I restarted my old modeling-hobby last year this Italeri-kit from was one of the first kits I bought. After building some armour I thought it was time to give this one a chance. Geoff Duke won the Dutch TT in Assen on this bike in [...]

German le.gl.Einheits-Pkw Kfz. 4 (ICM 35584) 1/35

This little German car from ICM was an enjoyment to build. For some reason the vehicle catched my eye for some time, so I decided buy and spend some time on this kit. Eventhough the parts fit very well, because of a lot of tiny parts it [...]