Recent content by michiel

As said before a new visitor centre opened near our home in Holland. It is located in between the British and Canadian bergen op zoom war cemeteries Canadian War Cemetery Bergen op Zoom In the Canadian War Cemetery in Bergen op Zoom rest 1,116 soldiers, including 968 Canadians, who fell during...

I do tend to disagree on this, military history remains popular, and especially the Great War does get a lot of attention, of course the centenary did play a role, but for instance at Rossignol where a terrible battle was in August 1914 has a newly opened visitor centre, and near our house in...

There is another one for sale tonight , now listed for 45€ on Catawiki

I totally agree with you, as I am a tschapka guy these really are hard to pass on.. but building projects , three dougthers on college, and wife prevent me from jumping on them, Especially the hannoverian tschapka with officer style guard star wappen is gorgeous… just keep on dreaming

This is quite interesting as I also understood that the liners with pattern of small punctured holes were post war, veteran caps, let some nice caps go for that reason as we all like war-period stuff… So thank you for this information

Those were the days.. unfortunatily whereas I am already collecting more than 35 years, as a teenager, student , young father, it is only some 20 years I am able to buy more interesting things

Woopie! What did you make to believe they were not hard to replace? These ww1 totenkopf caps are among the most searched items ( and very appealing) in our domain… would like one of those…

hilarious, when this topic came up and I looked at the helmets I was puzzled what the could be with those strange looking wappens, now that we know it is AI-modified photo of you collection it suddenly makes sense...

Kpemig, is reliable indeed, did several purchases, never negotiated

Here are two pictures of the 21 cm morser in transport mode as displayed at the Brussels army museum

I posted these elsewhere on the forum, in this model of the morser 21 cm houwitzer the casings also appear, when making the model I wondered why this brass shell casings were loose from the rest of the ammunition, in the photo above it looks also as if the casing filled with black substance is...

I recently finished two more models, a French and a German Howitzer , two small dioramas fitting just in front of the books on the bookshelf, I make these models mostly when on duty, being an otolaryngologist, being on duty is always a bit stressful, and modelling is a perfect mindful occupation.

like others I also think you should prevent the haubes from resting on the visors to prevent sunken in tops and detached visors I once saw display stand that I used as inspiration , and I made them at home from transparent polycarbonate plexiglass (tube and plates from which I produced...

a special attila for dispatch riders of only one army corps, thus a tiny number of soldiers involved, and than how many will have survived 100 years plus later... that piece must be almost unique in the world! congratulations on your purchase Sander!!!

and finale