Rob de Bie's scale models

Welcome to my modeling pages! You will find reports of my finished models (sixteen so far) and construction reports of some of the models I'm currently working on. You can take a look at my modeling workplace, and my for sale and wanted page. The pages show lots of 'in progress' photos, since I usually find these much more interesting than photos of the finished model. I spend a lot of time on research, but for me that is a large part of the pleasure of building a model. Some reference material is presented on this site. If you have comments or questions, mail me. You can also navigate this site by using the what's new page.

I noticed that many modelers are unaware of the existence of modeling clubs. Meeting fellow modelers and looking at and learning from each others models is very inspiring! I'm a member of IPMS-The Netherlands (International Plastic Modellers Society) which has about 1000 members. It has regional chapters, with regular meetings. You can view many photo reports of our Regio Zuid-Holland meetings. Dutch-speaking modelers can visit the Modelbrouwers forum. A source of modeling information from the nineties is the newsgroup rec.models.scale; you can search its archives through Google.