discussion Modelbouwshow, Netherlands, 24–25 February 2024

[Guest]

I got back from two days at this show about an hour and a half ago, and now having had dinner and sorted through the pictures I took a bit, I’ll fulfill the request to:

please take plenty of pics to show on here

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Our TWENOT stand, this morning:




I just noticed that the woman all the way on the left is pointing to one of my models of vehicles used in the Walcheren campaign, which probably aren’t unknown to regulars here

And more generic photographs from around the show. I won’t comment on all of them, except to point out things I think are noteworthy.



RC trucks:



More RC trucks at another stand. The bridge is a replica (within the usual capabilities of RC modellers, anyway ) of the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam, nicknamed “The Swan”:



RC aircraft:



They even had a flying area:



Carrera racetrack (also note the German vendor/small-scale kit maker TOM Modellbau in the background — never seen him here before, but he must have decided it might be worth the trek):



RC farm tractors!



And even 1:10 scale RC truck and tractor pulling!



Lots of trains:



Playmobil, which, somewhat oddly, is about the first thing you see when you get in (the toilets are right beside the entrance to the main hall):



I think these were all paper models:



A fictional version of the port of Rotterdam, almost entirely from paper models, both purchased and entirely scratchbuilt (I spent a fair while talking to the man who made them, and he said he had several times this still at home):



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[Waspie]

Looks mighty impressive Jacko. Hope you enjoyed your two days.

 

[Guest]

More of the fictional port of Rotterdam:



Not paper:



Paper:



These were all so small I asked the chap behind the stand to point at something, for scale Oh, and in case anyone here likes paper modelling, he mentioned to someone else that Canon (the printer/copier/camera manufacturer) has a lot of downloadable paper models. I just looked it up for convenience: https://creativepark.canon/en/categories/CAT-ST01-0071/top.html



And one specially for all the Englishmen here:





There was also a stand with Meccano:



And a rollercoaster:



This is one of the people at our TWENOT stand, who spent much of the time airbrushing his 1:72 scale what-if Maus anti-aircraft tank.



On to the second hall, which was mostly BIG boats and big RC, plus about half the hall was Lego (though I’m not going to post the photos I took of that).





The statue here is topical, since the show is held in the province of Zeeland, and the statue is a model of a real one of Michiel de Ruyter — it’s not wide off the mark to say that what Nelson is to the UK, De Ruyter is to the Netherlands. But why they put the flag upside down in front of him is anyone’s guess …

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[Guest]

One of the models on the table in the last photo above, the Eendracht (“Unity”) that discovered part of the west coast of Australia:



RC tanks and their playground:



I think this is Lego, but I couldn’t actually tell:



More boats, but now with sails:



There is also a pool for RC ships:



And the pool was equipped with fans at one end, so they could hold RC sailboat races:

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[Guest]

The bit @boatman has been waiting for



This next one is 1:35th scale!

 

[Tworrs]

Excellent collection of photos Jakko, thank you for taking the time to take the pics, and also to post them, much appreciated.
Are you in any of them?

 

[Ian M]

It looks like the Ship and boat builders have a good grip i the Netherlands! Some super models! That guy looking at the unfinished but huge boat! His face just says bugger its bigger than mine! lol.
A good spread of Scale military as well. Your club/group stand looked nice and busy.

Thanks for taking the time to share,

 

[Guest]

Are you in any of them?

Thankfully, I was on the wrong side of the iPad to appear in these photos

It looks like the Ship and boat builders have a good grip i the Netherlands!

We do kind of have a maritime tradition, after all A good quarter or more of this show is always devoted to ships like these. You hardly see any, say, 1:700 or 1:350 scale ones — pretty much everything ship-related is either big enough to be RC, or traditional-style wooden models of Golden Age sailing ships, which are never small either.

That guy looking at the unfinished but huge boat! His face just says bugger its bigger than mine! lol.

I only noticed him when looking through the pictures last night, but yes, I was lucky to capture him looking at the model That thing was huge (as if that isn’t obvious), and apparently made mostly from copper plate and rod. I don’t know how the hull was made, looks like it might be fibreglass, but the whole superstructure is soldered copper.

A good spread of Scale military as well. Your club/group stand looked nice and busy.

It was smaller than usual (we only got invited less than three weeks ago, because someone else dropped out, so we had to make do with what was there, and with fewer people than in other years) but we had a good amount of interest in what we were doing, and how. Some of those questions make you wonder why these people are at a model show at all, though (For example: I’m using a spatula to apply putty to parts of the Nike Hercules kit I bought. A man looking on asks, “What are you doing there?”)

Plus, of course, with military models you get people asking about the vehicles they operated during their national service, and that quickly leads to stories of the antics they got up to back then

 

[boatman]

HI MANY THANKS Jakko for takin my intrest of warships brilliant pics but then they are all very good sir an hope you enjoyed your two day show we will have one in october this yr hopefully as the chap who runs it normally sends out invites about june time
cheers
chrisb

 

[minitnkr]

Wow, that's quite a show. Amazing work on display. I noticed 1/87 has a foothold there.

 

[Allen Dewire]

It looks like you had a great time Jakko. A nice show with something for everyone in the hobby field. I really think the fans for the sailboat races was a cool idea!!! Thanks so much for taking them and posting up all the pics...

Prost
Allen

 

[Guest]

HI MANY THANKS Jakko for takin my intrest of warships brilliant pics but then they are all very good

Thanks Though most of the large ships there seem to have been civilian ones, I couldn’t help thinking of the kind of stuff you build when I was walking around that part of the show.

hope you enjoyed your two day show

Definitely

we will have one in october this yr hopefully as the chap who runs it normally sends out invites about june time

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Wow, that's quite a show. Amazing work on display. I noticed 1/87 has a foothold there.

Mostly in model railways, though. There always used to be a stand from Artitec but I didn’t see it this year. Then again, the whole show feels like it was meant as a bit of a new beginning from the previous editions, with nothing in the places where it always used to be, so maybe they didn’t give them any space this year.

A nice show with something for everyone in the hobby field.

Pretty much, yes. Whether you like static models or radio-controlled; ships, planes, tanks, cars, SF, or doll’s houses; you can probably find something to interest you. OTOH, it’s not a show I would recommend travelling to from far away, unless you also have something else to do around here. It just doesn’t have enough to offer to make a dedicated journey to it, IMHO.

I really think the fans for the sailboat races was a cool idea!!!

Those fans were powerful enough that when I was at the far end of the pool (first picture, where you’re looking into the hall) I could definitely feel the wind coming off them. That sailboat race also had a running commentary from a chap standing at the “fan” end of the pool with a microphone.