Hobbyzone Champ

[lang_nl]Gedurende mijn zoektocht naar een modelvliegtuig om mee te beginnen kwam ik steeds de Hobbyzone Champ tegen. De Champ is een Ultra-Micro vliegtuig en weegt dus nog geen 40 gram, bij een spanwijdte van ong. 50cm. Hij vliegt zeer stabiel, goed getrimd vliegt ‘ie stabiel rechtuit, als je de oriëntatie […]


Red Storm Rising at Crisis 2012

At Crisis 2012 in Antwerp, Rutger and I ran a Cold War participation game called Red Storm Rising. A small American force, part of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, was tasked with stopping a larger Soviet force. We played with a modified version of Rapid Fire! Unfortunately, the Soviets won […]


Free RC flight simulators

]Before buying and flying your first RC plane, I strongly recommend practicing with a computer simulator. A simulator will teach you the basic flight controls and getting used to the left/right inversion when the plane is flying towards you. Judging distances and where the plane is with regard to the […]


Sony Reader PRS-T1 and Calibre

I got a Sony Reader, the current PRS-T1 model, for my birthday. Reviews have shown that it’s the e-reader with the best PDF support, very important for me. It also has Wi-Fi and a web browser. While e-ink displays are quite slow, the web browser works just fine for reading […]


The Hot War is on!

My Hot War project has made considerable progress. US forces now consist of four M1 Abrams, two M3 Bradley, an M60A3 TTS, and several fireteams of infantry. West German forces are two Leopard 2 A4, two Marder 1 A2, a Fuchs, a MAN 7t gl, and 24 infantrymen. Both forces […]


Landmachtdagen 2012

[lang_nl]Foto’s van de demonstraties gedurende de Landmachtdagen 2012 te Oirschot.[/lang_nl] [lang_de]Bilder von den Vorführungen während den Landmachtdagen 2012, dem Tag der Offenen Tür des Niederländischen Heeres.[/lang_de] [lang_en]Pictures taken during the demonstrations at the Landmachtdagen 2012, the Dutch Army Days.[/lang_en]


Turning the Revell 1/72 Marder into the A2 version

Revell makes a nice 1/72 scale kit of the Marder 1 A3. Cold War gamers, however, are left out in the cold – they need the A1 or A2 version, both of which are visually quite different. It is however possible to modify the A3 kit to make it look […]


Hot War Project | Hot War Projekt | Hot War Project

[lang_de]Hot War ist mein achtziger Jahre “heisser kalter Krieg” Projekt im 1:72 oder 20mm Maßstab, für die Force on Force Regeln von Osprey und Ambush Alley Games. Ich will Streitkräfte und Gelände für die “Fulda Gap” im Jahr 1986 aufbauen, aber alles wird allgemein genug sein um es auch für […]


Review: Nikon AW100

I work in the Geodesy/Surveying team of ARCADIS Netherlands. Many of the surveying projects we do require taking pictures, e.g. for inventarisation purposes. Knowing the location where pictures have been taken is a huge benefit, so I was very happy when Sony brought out the DSC-HX5V, with built-in GPS receiver […]