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Dakar 2021
admin 8 January, 2021 Projects
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Le Mans 24hr build 2019
admin 16 June, 2019 Projects
June 15/16 will be the date for the Le Mans 2019 race and the 24hr build-off with the Dutch IPMS. Unfortunally I have to work that weekend at a Dutch racetrack and won’t be able to participate at home. But I still want to give it a try and give
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Caterham Super Seven JPE (1/12 Tamiya)
admin 17 February, 2019 Projects
Everybody has those kits in their stash ‘for later on, when I can do justice to that kit’. I have a couple of them and kept saving them for later. But very recently I lost a modelling friend to that awful ‘C’-disease, he basically kept modelling till the last and
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Routemaster cartransporter
admin 17 February, 2019 Projects
Ok, here’s a wacky idea; how about a car transporter, made from a Routemaster, or London bus? Somewhere on my vacation-break I got this awesome idea and started playing with it, I bought another London Bus kit from Revell (I kept the first one to be build stock) and got
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1949 Mercury Custom Coupe
admin 20 January, 2019 Projects
It has been a while since I’ve done a special paint project, I thought it was time again for a new project, trying some new techniques. My goal is not the best of the best paint-quality, I mean I try too, but the joy in learning and creating something new,
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Porsche 356 B Coupe & C Cabriolet 1/16 Revell
admin 31 December, 2018 Projects
Since the Coupé is a easy-click and the Cabriolet a full-detail, I am reviewing and comparing them side by side. For both models, a lot of putty is required to straighten the body, there are a lot of imperfections and sink-marks in both body’s.It is noticable, that the coupé covers
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IPMS Corvette C7 Group-build
admin 2 December, 2018 Projects
I just started working on a new project, this one is just for fun; not striving for a perfect fit and finish, but thinking out of the box and make something the kit wasn’t intended to be.   So here goes:
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In Box: Porsche 356B Coupe Revell 1: 16 07679
admin 22 November, 2018 Projects
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2018 Le Mans 24 hours build
admin 17 June, 2018 Projects
It is the time of the year again; the most exhausting race is happening! Almost being a tradition, during the 24 hours of Le Mans, I will try to build a Le Mans racer during those 24 hours. For this year, I chose a Hasegawa Porsche 962. When I received
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Paris-Dakar 2018 build; Renault 5
admin 20 January, 2018 Projects
For the second year, I organised a small groupsbuild for the Dutch IPMS. We build during the Dakar-race a Dakar model. There has been plenty of kits of Dakar vehicles and one can build something nice within 2 weeks, if necessary. Last year, I did Tamiya’s Pajero and I was
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Finding an extreme rare modelkit (1/12 Mazda RX-7, but wait for it!)
admin 14 August, 2017 Projects
It can’t be a secret anymore that I love big scale modelkits, I have a strong passion for them and love the oddball kits in larger scale. One of the harder to get modelkits is the Hasegawa Mazda RX-7 in 1/12 scale. Not a model I have been looking very
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2017 Le Mans 24hr build (Porsche 934 Brumos Racing)
admin 18 June, 2017 Projects
   
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DAF 3300
admin 18 April, 2017 Projects
A secret project, march 16th 2018 is when my father is going to retire. He has worked his whole life for only one company; a huge global dairy company. It is now known as FrieslandCampina. Even though my father has nothing with trucks, never driven them nor is a petrolhead,
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1/32 Revell Messerschmitt ME-262
admin 5 April, 2017 Projects
The third and for now last review model for the Dutch IPMS. After this build it is time for some customer work and after that some time for my own projects.
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Schnappy Hemi
admin 17 February, 2017 Projects
At the moment, I am finishing a lot of older projects, cleaning out my closet so to speak. Even though I am finishing those, I did wanted to start a new build too. A somewhat simple build, good for practising my airbrush skills. When I held the two body parts
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1/8 1965 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray
admin 27 January, 2017 Projects
This is a future commissioned build for the IPMS Netherlands, it will also be build close to box-stock and will add written text, after the article has been published.  
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Dodge Challenger 2009
admin 22 January, 2017 Projects
Ever since I built the ’09 Challenger for Thomas his birth day, I knew I had to built one again. The one for Thomas was the AMT curbside, this time I take a turn on the Revell Challenger, which is just so much better in so many ways. The detail
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1937 Ford Pickup, rodded
admin 14 January, 2017 Projects
It has been a while since I build a hotrod, I believe it was the 1937 Ford Sedan build a couple years ago. So it was time for me to get started on one, I began the pickup a few months back, but didn’t do anything but sanding the parts.
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Mitsubishi Pajero Paris-Le Cap winner 1992
admin 11 January, 2017 Projects
All projects to a hold; for the next two weeks, I will be building this Pajero. During the Dakar of 2017, I initiated a groupsbuild for the Dutch IPMS and this will be my entrance in the build. Day 1: Unboxed the Pajero, got the body apart and got all
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Revell Sunseeker Predator 108ft
admin 19 November, 2016 Projects
This model has been commissioned as a reviewmodel for the Dutch IPMS magazine, when this model has been finished and published, I will update the post with the translated article. Until then, I can only show the pictures.
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Sometimes you find that kit one has been looking for a long time
admin 12 November, 2016 Projects
One of the kits I’ve been looking for for a long time is the 1/8 Porsceh 911 by either Eidai Grip or Entex. It all started with the pictures from a secondhand website, the add caught my attention and when I looked closer, I noticed one thing; If that yellow
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Lamborghini Aventador 1/8 Pocher
admin 12 October, 2016 Projects
It is time, time to take a second take at the Aventador. Reviewing it for the IPMS, I built it box-stock, no alterations. This time, I am going to built it my style. But I am not going into extreme detailling. I will alter parts, replace some, scratch some, but
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Le Mans 2015 24hr build (Bentley Blower & Renault 5)
admin 14 June, 2015 Projects
I am sorry, but I am not going to bore you with a lot of text. Why? Simple, I joined a community build of the Dutch IPMS, in which we build a car (or more) during the 24hrs of Le Mans, the catch is to build a Endurance racer, that
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1957 Chevrolet Bel Air barnrod
admin 10 April, 2015 Projects
I have seen a video somewhere on Youtube that gave me inspiration for building this. I was going to use a scrapped 1/24, but decided to go bigger and doubting on 1/16, I chose 1/12 in the end. I had a partial built ’57 sportscoupe laying around and other than
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Toyota GT86
admin 30 August, 2014 Projects
I started this project a little while back, it will be a celebrating model in honour of our soon to be born baby. I made a Dodge Challenger for our first son and so I wanted to make something for the upcoming child (he or she, we don’t know). Just
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1936 Ford sedan hotrod
admin 22 August, 2014 Projects
I decided it was time to build me a hotrod again, just for the fun of it. After spending time in my ‘warehouse’, I found a nice simple kit, perfect for a quick, but fun build: The pictures are a bit behind, as I went for it and didn’t want
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Jaguar E-type drophead coupe series 1,5 4.2
admin 23 March, 2014 Projects
One of my projects for this year is going to be a E-type. You just can’t beat the beauty of that car. I have build the Revell convertible before, but that one wasn’t so good. I was able to get my hands on a couple of HighTech series from Gunze
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1/9 Volkswagen Kübel ‘Kubelrod’
admin 23 October, 2013 Projects
A while back I purchased this kit in Belgium because I like big scale and it was affordable, due to not building military I soon sold it again. Ever since I kept looking for a decent priced one and not that long ago, I was able to find one for
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Audi R8 ‘Warrior’
admin 26 August, 2012 Projects
This project is going to be a thought that I had, put into ‘reality’. My wife likes the R8 a lot and I find it a hideous car, not worthy of the title supercar at all. Even though it’s performance is nice, the looks are as mondain as any other
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1940 Ford early modified
admin 7 August, 2012 Projects
Due to disappointing results in the last projects, I got a bit dismotivated and I am still there, I don’t really spend much dedicated modellingtime anymore, nor the drive to finish something. I have many open projects at the moment and decided to let them be for now and start
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Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI Coupe
admin 14 June, 2012 Projects
I got bored…. It happens more often and than I wonder through my kits and get new ideas, I went through a new stash and soon got the idea to make something I’ve not seen before, I wanted to have a modern japanese rallycoupe, other than the Impreza. I wanted
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Krupp Titan
admin 7 May, 2012 Projects
My first truck! After visiting Jabbeke, I got a little caught by the trucks and wanted to build me a truck or two. This truck has been given to me for review in the Dutch IPMS magazine. This is how the partly assembled chassis looks like now, I will add
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Seventies Ford Econoline ‘Wizard’ van
admin 6 March, 2012 Projects
The Rommel’s Rod is almost finished and it has been a while since I had a true challenge for me and my airbrush, so instead of going for an easy paintjob, I decided to go way difficult and over my head haha. I started this van somewhere in 2009, but
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Rommel’s Rod
admin 5 February, 2012 Projects
The idea is to make a weathered hotrod from Edwin Rommel. The kit I am using is the well-known re-issue of Rommel’s Rod. I finally have all the ingredients I will be using and the guts to work on it. I started yesterday and worked on the body, I applied
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1959 Chevrolet Impala custom
admin 12 January, 2012 Projects
The first, but small update. I have not found the exact path I want to follow, but I made with photoshop a course idea of what I have in mind. I left the color white, as I am not sure what colors to use just yet. This is the original
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1/12 Doyusha Porsche 911 v8 twinturbo wip
admin 13 November, 2011 Projects
The Porsche 911 V8 TwinTurbo! I haven’t been working on a big-scale’s for a long time (with exception to the Citroen DS, which is a bad, bad, bad kit) I haven’t been over here either. But recently I started to look again and I noticed the SMC Contest, which I
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1966 Chevrolet Chevelle prostreet custom wip
admin 11 October, 2011 Projects
A mouthfull, but it is what it is. When looking through my stash for a nice build that I can complete before the nationals, I ended up with the Chevelle Wagon. I had idea’s that were mild custom, but then my eye landed upon a started ’67 Chevelle ProStreet kit
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1970 Buick Wildcat wip
admin 8 August, 2011 Projects
I started this project not too long ago. I thought it would be a nice, simple project. It has only 26 parts and it is only a curbside. I painted the car in a light-brown, but didn’t like the looks of it. So I painted it with a dark-green paint.
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Mercedes SLS AMG work in progress
admin 1 August, 2011 Projects
I bought recently this kit, soon after the purchase I opened the box and the first word that came out of my lips was WOW. Seriously, Revell nailed it with this kit. The engraved detail looks awesome and the molds are very crisp. I had my ranting and raving over
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