Thinking..

After I put the poem to the entry last I week I started to think about the ….. (dots)

So here is the answer in a nutshell. The inspiration came when I traveled by train with my wife over the new line through the Flevopolder to Groningen.

Holliday …

As a boy in the late 1950’s I got on vacation with my parents to a place in the north of the Netherlands in the province of Groningen. After going from Utrecht to Groningen with the electric express train we had to change train. The last part of the journey was with a blue Diesel Electric 1. I still can hear the sound of the diesel engine and smell the diesel fuel. I think this was the starting point for my interest in trains.

Of course I got a model train ( with my brother) for Sinterklaas (your Santa Claus) . Then there was a period in which I developed other interests: art, literature, music and social history and girls.

Model railway experience…

Then I became an armchair modeller. Until I read an article about Fremo. I joint in and build my first modules. Within Fremo I learned about modelling, way bills, wagon cards and real freight traffic with shunting on the country stations (mostly German). Learned to think about what kind of goods come in and are send away.

Unfortunately I had to give up Fremo, for several personal reasons.

Card building ….

In May 2007 I met Peter Genttle from the 3 mm Society with beautiful card build structures. I was most impressed. We did that day a lot of talking and on a certain moment he said: “I like to walk around a little bit. Can you stay here. You can build that slate roof further.” When I said I hadn’t the experience he sad: “You have to start once, why not now.”

It still took some time before I really started with my first structure from Scalescenes. Using the kits made it not necessarily to create the walls the Pendon way. Just print out and you can start following the instructions.

RM web

Here is the first model I build and published on the RM web to get feedback.

I get a lot inspiration and feed back here, which I still much appreciate.

So this is my tribute to all those that helped me to get to this....

Sometimes it is good to stop and think about how did I got to this ….

Regards,

Job