henkofholland mastermodelling military vehicles scale 1/72-1/76
Important News - February 2023
The website is migrated to another host company and has been operational again since February 07.
Unfortunately, the link to my website has also changed.
The old link was https://henk.fox3000.com/index2.htm - The old link no longer works
The new link is https://fox3000.com/index2.htm - The new link is secured so use https:// -
To all visitors, modeling websites and manufacturers, who visit or used the link to my website:
1. change the link to my website for yourself and for visitors of your website
2. Communicate the change to your fellow model builders so that my website becomes widely known again
Sponsors / donations needed to allow me to continue operating and maintaining this website
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Note:
This website is an extension of my modeling hobby and serves to inform only.
It is NOT possible to order merchandise directly from me. I do not own a (web-)shop. You will find some reliable vendors in the "links" page.
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Site for 1/72 and 1/76 scale Military Modellers.
Welcome to my Web-Site which is dedicated to scale 1/72 and 1/76 military modeling.
Dear visitors,
Many people have hobbies and enjoy collecting all sorts of items, so not surprisingly, there are also people who collect items from World War 2.
In my childhood I started building and collecting the well known cardboard construction kits and at a later stage, models of wooden ships and
finally militairy vehicles.
After my tour of duty in the Dutch Army, up to about the age of 30, I didn't do any modeling. Then by coincidence I came into contact with people
who were into military modeling. After a period of building hobbyshop kits, I took up building-from-scratch based on available shop kits.
During an exposition of my models in "The fortress of Hook of Holland, The Netherlands", I became a member of the modeling club "TWENOT", which is
a Dutch abbreviation of the "Second Dutch Organization of Tank hobbyists". I got so much feed back from this organization, that I began to build
high quality models, resulting in several foreign companies becoming interested in my models.
I came into contact with some manufacturers, specifically in Scotland, the U.S.A., Germany and Australia. I have had business deals with some of
these companies. The models I built at the request of these clients were eventually released by these companies. I also built on request for private
people. I have built several models for a compagny named "Ostmodels" in Australia, with a market in Australia, Japan and the U.S.A, and for a compagny
named "Milicast" in Scotland, with a market in Europe and the U.S.A. The other compagnies were Mr Panzer in Italy, Fine Cast Models (FCM) and Fine Scale
Factory (FSF) both in Germany.
These models were built with the help of drawings, photographs, blue prints, etc. After a master model is finished, it is sent to the ordering company.
The individual parts are then made on a casting strip after which a mould of silicone rubber is made. This is almost the same material as used by
dentists to make dentures. By pouring liquid resin or melted soft metal into the moulds, the individual parts of the kit are casted. Casting with resin
is very tricky because air bubbles can easily destroy the parts. Casting with soft metal is less difficult but weight restrictions make it too heavy
for airmail shipping.
You can make only a restricted number of castings from one mould. When the mould is too soft it may last longer, but the finished parts tend to be distorted.
When the mould is too stiff, the mould could easily be destroyed while removing the parts. On average a mould will last for about 20 or 30 castings.
Silicone rubber and liquified resin are expensive. The entire process of casting and preparing the finished item for transportation is quite time consuming,
hence such products are expensive, much more expensive than the common plastic (assembly-) kits available in hobby shops. Those kits are made using
injection metal moulds and will last for thousands of castings. However a proper metal mould will costs anywhere from Euro 10.000 to Euro 100.000 or even more
and many thousands of models need to be sold to make it profitable. This is obviously out of range for a hobbyist.
Years ago I stopped making master models altogether, leaving that kind of work to a new and younger generation.
Over the years I began to realize that there was a significant absence of useful detailed information about military modeling at the small scales' level
such as availability and quality of models and the history behind the actual vehicles that they represent. I am aware that much info can be found on the
internet but it is often scattered over many different sites that makes searching for it more complicated. In other words: where do I find what I am
looking for? Not all manufacturers have their own website and the info available in most online shops is often rather limited.
With this in mind, about 20 years ago, I started my own website with the intention to provide additional information all in one and the same site. My site
was built and is maintained with the support of modelers, manufacturers and shop owners and has steadily grown over those years to what it is today.
A rather unique collection of inside information in general, instruction manuals, contributions of photo galleries of finished models from all over the
world and much more. This website is a showcase of my modeling hobby.
IMPORTANT NOTE: "Copyright / SOURCE"
Some models on my website shows photo's of original vehicles as evidence that those vehicles have actually existed or are maybe fake vehicles.
Those pictures are obtained from other modellers etc. or found on internet. Unfortunately, an owner of the copyright-related photos is usually not
known. My apologies for that. Notify me if you have recognized one or more of these photos as your property, so that it is possible to mention the
copyright / source of the pictures.
Disclaimer:
All the photos and pictures used remain the property of their owners.
They are published in an educational and research purpose only.
However, we believe, that most of photos used belong to public domain due to age or anonymous authors
Thanks for your attention.Henk Timmerman, alias Henk of Holland.
*****Esci-Ertl History (Page 3 - Esci under other labels) - Revell/Esci (H2300 series), Esci/ERTL, Esci announced but never released, Esci/Humbrol, Esci/Polistill/Armor, Esci/Polistill, ERTL/Esci,
Esci/AHM, AMT/ERTL, Esci/Aurora, Esci/Soldat, Esci/Hasegawa, Esci/GunzeSangyo, Esci/Alby
A picture show of finished models and diorama's built by several modelers with special reference to master modelers Gabriele Zenoni and Alexandru Giersch and to diorama builders Roman Skiba and Walter Hendriksma.
"Drawings - Engines of WW-II period" Oliver Missing's German website about "Military Vehicle Drawings in color of - "Engines of the Red Army"- "Engines of the Western Allies"- "Engines of the Wehrmacht" - Over 2000+ scaled, multi-view and coloured Profiles.
"Wardrawings" Website from "Vincent Bourquiqnon, Belgium" A site with vehicles, tanks and others drawings from Worldwar I, Worldwar II and Modern Aera period
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Elena's website translated into 13 different languages. Available languages are French, Italian, German, Dutch, Czech and Slovakian, Portuguese, Finnish, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, Polish, Turkish, Hungarian, Indonesian. More languages will be available in time.
Note: This website is not in line with military modeling, but I think it may nevertheless be of interest to many people. The site features video's about the disaster. Also quite interesting is the page with authentic war photographs and video's of battlefield archaeology.
Reproductions of Panzers based on modern Tanks
Repro Panzers
These URLs are linked to other informative and interesting websites.
"the.shadock.free.fr" Moviepanzers: - Reproductions of Panzers based on modern Tanks - (pdf file)
Military Modeling related websites
"Atlantikwall" Bunkers. British Website with many links to bunkers.
"Modeling the F.R. Batterie (Long-Range Rocket) - scale 1/32" Albert Koopman's website. This Dutch website features the A4/V2 batterie and the vehicles used with a lot of pictures, information and the locations were the batteries were positioned.
"Railwaygun Webmuseum" Nicholas Robinson's U.K. website about the Railway Gun Museum. The site shows you railway guns, armoured trains and military railway stock from different nations.
"Truck Lend-Leased to Russia" Oliver Missing's German website about "Lend-lease Vehicles". Drawings in color of "lend-lease" vehicles used in Russia.
"WW2 Drawings""WW-2 Drawings" Vincent Bourguignon's Belgium website with drawings in color of WW-2 vehicles from various nations.
"The Tankmaster" An amazing website about Russian armor. Many high resolution images of Russian and Soviet armor and artillery in color and black and white. It is also a retail site featuring high quality resin kits made in Russia. Featuring MajorModels, OA, SK (Russia).
"On the Way" Specialised in scale 1/72 modeling. Best site for information and reviews about military models in this scale!!!
"Primeportal", Walkarounds and pictures of original military vehicles. One of the best sites for information and pictures of original military vehicles and more!!!
"Chars Francais" French tanks and armored fighting vehicles. Site in English and French featuring vehicles either developped by the French war industry or foreign vehicles used by the French army, from start to present day. Over 150 vehicles covered. Over 450 individually identified tanks.
"Vincents Abbott Galery"Site with a lot of information about military vehicles and radio-controlled vehicles. Visit the sections "Hobbies" and "History" and see the pictures and video's.
"Silicon Valley Scale Modelers" A site with references and walkarounds of original armored vehicles by Vladimir Yakubov and others.Time span from 1915 until present day.
"Surviving-Panzers" Site by Pierre Olivier from France. Information about remaining German Panzers from period WW-II with pictures.
"Peter Shaw's Dora" Military Modeling in scale 1/6 A slide show by Peter Shaw, featuring his German "Dora" Railway gun in scale 1/6 scale.
"Masterwork in 1/144 Scale" Missing Lynx shows you a built-from-scratch scale 1/144 TIGER-1 tank [Panzer in German] as used by s.Pz.Abt. 501, Tunisia, December 1942 - January 1943.
"Strijdbewijs.nl" Strijdbewijs.nl Dutch website with plenty of WW-2 related historical information: D-Day, Operation Overlord and much more. In Dutch and English.
Tank Museum Bovington, UK - Several interesting movies available at YouTube.
Tank Museum Bovington - UK
Bovington Tank Museum Tankfest 2008 Highlights
Jagdpanther at Bovington Tankfest 2010
Great Sounding Turbo Diesel Challenger Tanks.
Project Landcruiser P 1000 "The Rat"
Here I would like to take the opportunity to express my appreciation to all people who have helped me by contributing information over the
years.
There are just far too many people to mention everyone by name personally.
The website is supported with a donation by:
The following shop keepers and / or manufacturers have provided me with one or more review samples
2015
2021
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R.A from Australia
S.R. from Australia
5MHobby - China
D.H. from Germany
S.C. from ?
Armada - Hungary
M.H, "Weathering Factory", Germany
D.H. from Germany
Always Models - Taiwan
J.G. from Spain
R.T. from Australia
Archer Transfers - USA
T.P. from USA
Balaton Models - Hungary
D.S. from Germany
2022
Black Dog - Czech
A.Z. from Germany
N.S. from Germany
Ceasar Miniatures - Taiwan
A.K. from Russia
R.M. from Portugal
First Air - Japan
J.G from UK
R.T. from Australia
Flyhawk Models - China
J.R. from UK
P.v.K from Netherlands
Force of Valor - USA
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Giesbers Models - Netherlands
2016
2023
Hobby Terra - Taiwan
D.H. from Germany
T.H. from Germany?
Jadar Model - Poland
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S.R. from Australia
Modelkrak - Poland
2017
R.T. from Australia
Maco - Germany
R.A. from Australia
Minairons - Spain
R.M. from Portugal
2024
MPK - Swiss
S.R. from Australia
R.MCM from USA
ModelCollect - China
R.Z. from USA
R.T. from Australia
Ostmodels - Australia
L.L. from UK
Pegasus Hobbies - USA
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2025
Retrokit - France
2018
S.R. from Australia
Retrokit - UK
G.J.M from Portugal
R.T. from Australia (2x)
sModel - China
P.H. from Germany
SMK - Ukraine
S.R from Australia
Thor Hobby - Taiwan
U.B. from Germany
Tracks & Troops - Czech
R.T. from Australia
TerminMolds - China
D.T.C from Canada
Milicast - UK
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Cromwell Models - UK
2019
Trident - Swiss
S.R. from Australia
VepaMiniatures - Spain
P.H. from Germany
Zebrano - Belorussia
D.H. from Germany
Weathering Factory - Germany
A.F from ?
Attack Hobby Kits s.r.o.
R.T from Australia
Xan Miniatures - Spain
D.S. from Germany
Minitracks - France
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Mirage Hobby - Poland
2020
Germania-figuren - Germany
D.K. from Canada
Adlermin - UK
S.R. from Australia
Hunor - Hungary
R.T. from Australia
IDAP Technology - Poland
F.O. from USA
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P.H. from Germany
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L.L. from UK (Adlermin)
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M.S. from UK
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P.R. from UK
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J.M.C. from Spain
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Note:
This website is an extension of my modeling hobby and serves to inform only.
It is NOT possible to order merchandise directly from me. I do not own a (web-)shop. You will find some reliable vendors in the "links" page.
"British Online Tankmuseum"
"MissingLynx" on Tapatalk - Discussions and comments about 3D Printed models on MissingLynx forum
"IPMS- Deutschland" - Warning for 3D-Modellen (part 1) - (German Language)
Kiddofspeed - GHOST TOWN - Chernobyl Disaster - Elena's Motorcyle Ride through Chernobyl and more!!
Tank Museum Bovington - UK 
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