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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.
“SMIT ROTTERDAM” from the Dutch towing company "SMITWIJS".
The Netherlands used to be known as a sea faring nation. Especially ocean going tugs were famous. There were two big firms. Smit in Maassluis and Wijsmuller in [...]
History:
The Royal Navy received 48 Phantoms. In service 30th april 1968, retired 27 november 1978. Due to its seize, operations were limited to HMS Eagle and HMS Ark Royal.
The twin reheating Rolls-Royce powered F4K Phantom had some [...]
The Grumman Tracker was very successful in service of the Royal Netherlands Navy.
In total the Navy Air Arm received 45 Trackers. 28 US build S-2F and 17 Canadian (C)S-2F. The Canadian type was mostly used in the former Dutch Antilles. [...]
ROYAL NETHERLANDS NAVY AIRCRAFT CARRIER
HR.MS. KAREL DOORMAN
Short History:
Type: Light Fleet Carrier.
Admiralty Job Number J3697 / Yard Number 1126
She was laid down on 3 December 1942, by the yard Cammel Laird & Co Ltd. [...]
BOEING VERTOL SEA KNIGHT CH/HH-46D 'RESCUE"
These long lesting workhorses are slowly getting ready for the scrap yard.
Lets not forget they saved many lives and transported thousands of troops world wide.
Naval Air Staion "De Kooy" is located just outside the Naval base of Den Helder in the Northern tip of the Netherlands.
The diorama shows two search and rescue helikopters. Also on the tarmac is the crew bus and the Landrover [...]
