Bas Knippels Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 Hello, My name is Sebastiaan Knippels (call me Bas), I am 29 years old, live in Heerhugowaard, Holland, I am married and have 2 pet cats. I've been developing an increasing interest in British railroads and stock (Scotland in particulair). After me and my wife came back from our honeymoon in Scotland I obviously had to purchase a class 156 in Scotrail blue saltire livery and now I am in the possession of the class 156, 2 W4 pecketts, 2 class 37s (large logo and dutch yellow grey), and a class 122 bubblecar (BR blue) oh and I have a Mallard. I have also started to build a 2 piece modulair layout called 'Rosedale abbey'. I also have a fixed layout in dutch style. When the time is right I'd like to build Corrour in 00 gauge which may be used in the BMB's (british modulair track) modulair layout. During the trip from Oban to Fort William we got out at Corrour. A fellow passenger asked: "what are you going to do there?" Well the answer was: Having lunch, taking a short hike, sit at the fire place with a dutch rail magazine from the shelf and waiting on the next train. I have a degree in electrical engineering, I am currently employed as a software engineer. I program in Assembly language for the 8051 uController for a living. I built my own DCC central from scratch, software included. And Currently I am developing several PCB designs, varying from digital to analog shuttle layout solutions to make all our lives easier. And I like to believe I am really really good at programming arduino's. I have even developed my own software tools which can do a part of the programming for me. If you ever want an arduino to do something for you and you can't program yourself, you can send me a message I must warn you, I am like a walking idea box, I poop out a one idea after another. And I think about 2-5% are actually good ones . Kind regards, Bas P.S. For those who are wondering, the K in Knippels is not a silent K. 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohmisterporter Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 Welcome to the forum Bas, you will find plenty of advice and inspiration on here. Make sure you layout is cat proof; they seem to know where the most delicate bits are. Thanks for the tip about Knippels. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Gilbert Posted February 2, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 2, 2021 (edited) Welcome Bas Lots of useful info on here (and lots of opinions to decide on...) Chris Edited February 2, 2021 by Gilbert 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
3737 Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Good to see you're on RMWeb, Bas. Looking forward to run trains on your BMB-module. Leen. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jburgt Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 @Bas, Me too. Let us see your BMB plan. Gr, Hans Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegheny1600 Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Hi Bas, Welcome! It’s going to be interesting to see how you approach a Scottish layout but please, do let us also see your Dutch layout too! Thanks and best regards, John 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WM183 Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 More people from the Netherlands! Groetjes Bas! Welkom bij RMWeb. I'm eager to see some of your modelling! Amanda (from Heerlen!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trains&armour Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Welcome Bas. And as a fellow dutchman I can tell you that the best place on the web for British outline modelling is RMweb. Have fun. Regards, Sierd Jan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jburgt Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Hoi Sierd Jan, Complete agreed. But the Facebook Group of BRM is also a good spot. gr, another Dutchman Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimboBrit Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 On 03/02/2021 at 21:54, WM183 said: from Heerlen! Toevallig! Ik woon in gemeente Gulpen-Wittem maar werk in Heerlen vlakbij het Corio Center There are more people resident in NL on this forum than I thought. Hi, everybody. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jburgt Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Hi LimboBrit, Yes, indeed a lot of Dutch RMWeb members are involved in British railway modelling. Yesterday we had our 10-year celebration of the LitterBin group on Beneluxspoor.net (The Dutch equivalent of the RMWeb). We have almost 2 million visitors in our thread. Most of us are also member of the RMWeb. Gr, Hans 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WM183 Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 1 hour ago, LimboBrit said: Toevallig! Ik woon in gemeente Gulpen-Wittem maar werk in Heerlen vlakbij het Corio Center There are more people resident in NL on this forum than I thought. Hi, everybody. Hooi! Toon mijn man een kind was, woonde hij in Gulpen. Small world! Lots of Dutchies here, indeed! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted April 2, 2021 Moderators Share Posted April 2, 2021 U bent hier allemaal van harte welkom! Ik heb van velen van jullie veel geweldige modellen gezien. Zelfs als ik op Google translate moet vertrouwen! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimboBrit Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 1 minute ago, WM183 said: Lots of Dutchies here, indeed! Actually I only became Dutch (dual nationality) nearly 4 years ago. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jburgt Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, AY Mod said: U bent hier allemaal van harte welkom! Ik heb van velen van jullie veel geweldige modellen gezien. Zelfs als ik op Google translate moet vertrouwen! Thx Andy, We do our best. Although we have a lot of constraints now. Corona ánd the border issues due to the Brexit made it quite difficult for us. We miss the nice trips to the UK, the exhibitions and the shops to visit. And our friends to see overthere. Nice that you try to read our Dutch website! Gr, Hans Edited April 2, 2021 by jburgt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WM183 Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 7 hours ago, LimboBrit said: Actually I only became Dutch (dual nationality) nearly 4 years ago. I only became Dutch (Also dual nationality) last week! Been here almost 7 years, finally a citizen =) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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