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Hi There,
My name is Dirk, 70 years old. Living in "Zeeuws Vlaanderen" The Netherlands.
Modelling for more than thirty years. As you can notice in the picture, my dear friend "Tomboy" is always near. Mostly snoring during the day, and terrorizing the neighborhood cats during the night.
Ships 1/400-1/350 - Aircraft 1/72-1/48 - Ground and support equipment for the Air Base.
Favorite's: cold war, props and rotors.
Dear Modelers,
Especially for our oversea modelers, two links to this magnificent event.
One in pictures, the other one leads you to some YouTube films. (Part 1-2-3)
Look at for instance all the lighting arrangements on the competitors [...]
On the first of May 1982 the Aviacion Naval Argentina was in the possesion of the first batch of 8 Super Etendards. These aircraft equipped the 2a Escuadrilla de Caza Y Ataque, based at Comandante Espora, Puerto Belgrano.
These aircraft [...]
RNLI LIFEBOAT STATION “STORNOWAY” ON THE ISLE OF LEWIS
(RNLI= ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION) (UK)
Severn Class Lifeboat:
The Severn Class is an all-weather lifeboat, that was introduced into the fleet in the year 1995. The last [...]
THE STORY OF THE A-4E LADY JESSIE
Lady Jessie was married to Fred Beck. They ran the Keno game at Harold's Club in Reno. They became acquainted with Dick Perry,(She was like an adopted Mother to Lcdr Dick Perry.) who was shot down and [...]
Dear iModeler friends,
Happily surprised to find out, that I came out as one of the winners on the random draw, due to my report on the Model Expo Zeelandhallen 18/19 februari 2017.
This Dakota, will be transformed to an Argentine Navy [...]
Continuation of show report Model and Toy Fair in the "Zeelandhallen"Goes The Netherlands.
Very noticeable, that the average age of participants was well over fifty.
That is a real concern for the near future.
The youngsters on [...]
The “Zeeland Hallen” in the Provence of Zeeland (The Netherlands), was the location for the 25th anniversary of this miniature model and toy fair.Three large halls are filled to the brim with plastic models, train tracks in many [...]
Dear Modelers,
On Sunday the fifth of februari 2017 it was the annual show of my modelclub Eeklo.
Eeklo is a city in Belgium. Situated in the province East-Vlaanderen.
Invitations went out to clubs in Belgium and The Netherlands.
It was [...]
I found this out recently. The Norwegian Air Force Historic Flight is active again with a
TF-104 starfighter.
Have to see.
Regards,
Dirk
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The Creators:
The diorama was made by Luc de Dapper, chairman of the Eeklo (Belgium) scale model club and Marc De Greave, famous in Belgium for its ability to create figurines, starting from a bended paperclip.
The intention was to create [...]
