Popular Post WHITESNAKE01 Posted February 20, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted February 20, 2022 Hi all, Time to show some of my collection. Looking around on the forum i've seen lots of beautys comin' by, especially some realy nice typical British stuff. I do wonder though why a lot of people buy models and just store them in boxes........... in my opinion one wants to see the collected models regularly, as they (to me at least) tell a story. This way i can enjoy them every day! So my collection is shown, not stored, in showcases. And indeed, slowly increasing your collection occasionaly creates the need for larger or more showcases. That on itself can be a hobby and pretty expensive........... Okay, enough talking for now. Time for some pictures: To be continued....... Best regards, Jan 11 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger82 Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 That fantastic looking display of models 👌 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHITESNAKE01 Posted February 21, 2022 Author Share Posted February 21, 2022 (edited) Hi all, Thank you Cyril. As i said i find it pleasant to be able to look at my collection on a daily basis, and so these showcases are really suitable for this! My collection consists of three main areas, "Agricultural", "Cars" and "Heavy Transport, Trucks and Earth Moving Equipment". The common thread in these three is the (usually emotional) connection I have with them, as for "Agricultural" meaning that i have worked with these tractors & machines, during my school-era, or being a mechanic. About "Cars" meaning that they represent a car which i've owned, or have a strong connection with, which goes for the most Service-Vans which i have on scale, and have been (or: are) driving during my era of being a Service-Mechanic, up until today. Regarding the "Heavy Transport, Trucks and Earth Moving Equipment-department": that's mainly about interest, basicly based on the fact i see them a lot when i'm out on the road, and they intrigue me. The brand Caterpillar does intrigue even from when i was only a child! The number of showcases has grown to five over the years, and as mentioned: this also is a dynamic process. As when your collection slowly increases, the space it needs does the same! So i'm always on the look-out on second-hand furniture websites as we have something like "Market-place" here in the Netherlands. My latest acquisition is a showcase which is about 30cm. wider than it's predecessor, and i collected it about two weeks ago with a friend of mine. However, the internal move has yet to take place, first I'm still looking for more glass shelves to put into the new showcase, as there's also the need for a new sliding glass door, which the former owner dropped by accident! And, to me of a very high value: a mirror back wall! This i order separetely from a supplier. Now time for some pictures, more in detail than the former ones. I'll try to make a decent description with each picture: Starting off with Showcase #1, shelf #1: some different earth-moving equipment in different scales, as well as a Lego Wheelchair, not on the market. Showcase #1, shelf #2: some earth-moving equipment, mainly scale 1:50, different brands. Showcase #1, shelf #3: trucks based on building-kits, scale 1:24 / 1:25, as well as the Heller MF2680 in scale 1:24, and a truck and low-loader with a wheelloader in scale 1:32. Showcase #1, shelf #4: Volvo Trucks, made from building-kits, scale 1:24, and their low-loaders, loaded with a Claas combine and it's header. Showcase #1, bottom-shelf: home-made Liebherr excavator, scale 1:18, and a REALLY NICE Caterpillar display, one used in a shoe-shop, and given to me by a dear friend! Up to showcase #2: Showcase #2, top-shelf: agricultural equipment, scale 1:43 Showcase #2, shelf #2: A bit of a historical view on Claas combines. Showcase #2, shelf #3: some other combines, as wel as a historical Claas corn chopper and some tractors which didn't fit into the tractor-shelf anymore. Showcase #2, shelf #4: only tractors on scale 1:32, different brands, amongst a large number of Fiat's Showcase #2, bottom-shelf: agricultural machinery in scale 1:32. Again: a lot of them i've worked with. To be continued.......... Best regards, Jan Edited February 21, 2022 by WHITESNAKE01 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHITESNAKE01 Posted February 21, 2022 Author Share Posted February 21, 2022 (edited) Hi all, Up to part two of descriptions with each showcase-shelf. We've arrived at showcase #3: Showcase #3, top-shelf: Service-Vans i've been driving, or am driving today, based on my history of being a Service Technician in wheelchairs and rehab-equipment. Showcase #3, shelf #2: International, Case-International, Case and David Brown tractors in 1:32, most of them i've worked on or with during my era of being mechanic in this industry, as wel of working on dairy farms. Showcase #3, shelf #3: CaseIH and International 1455's in 1:16, a IH (kit) made by Preiser 423 in 1:24, and my self-made CaseIH 1056XLA, scale 1:10, unfortunately unfinished....... Showcase #3, shelf #4; some varieties on the IH-subject of my collection, amongst a wooden "Maxxum"-version of the first generation, especially issued by the dutch importer Boeke Heesters, for which i've worked for about six years. On the bottom-shelf my (small) stone-collection. Up to showcase #4: cars: Showaces #4, top-shelf: Opel Manta's in different scales. It is and has always been my dream-car, although i didn't own one.......... Showcase #4, shelf #2: a large part of cars i've owned companioned by some Land Rovers. Showcase #4, shelf #3: some different cars in different scales, one of the most appealing probably the ZZ-TOP Eliminator in 1:24, made out of a standard building-kit of a Ford five-window coupe, re-furbished / re-done by myself, decals made by my brother. Showcase #4, bottom-shelf: a broken crankshaft out of a Case backhoe, which drove into the workshop with a hell of a lot of noise because the fourth crank was broken, but it did came in RUNNING! I did save the broken part for a long time but eventuallay threw it away, which i regret awful afterwards. It's been companioned by an Opel Manta as well as an Opel Ascona, both in 1:24. To be honest: the car-showcase needs to be reorganized a bit, for which plans are being made. I hope it gets a bit more clear to you what i mean by: my models are telling a story. Mostly every item has it's own history! To be continued! Best regards, Jan Edited February 21, 2022 by WHITESNAKE01 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hajo Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 Impressive collection Jan! Must take up a lot of space in your house, or do you have a separate space for your collection? I truely like your showcases, a joy to look at them on the pictures. By the way, I also collect models in boxes, mostly because in my case the box is part of the set (I have a nice collection of Britains gift sets) and also because boxes in my opinion add value to models, and are easily sold with than without boxes. Mainly due to all the fragile parts on today's models. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHITESNAKE01 Posted February 24, 2022 Author Share Posted February 24, 2022 Hi all, @Hajo: Thanks for your compliment! Well, i kind of have the privilege to have my own bedroom 😊. As we discovered quite some years ago that my wife and i were keeping each other from sleeping because of a snoring partner, we decided it could be a wise decision to sleep in separate bedrooms. And so we did. In a certain way it can save your marriage, you know!? The collection as shown wasn't collected in a few years: i think i'm collecting for over fourty years now. Still being critical in making choices......😉, one just has to....... Finding the right showcases is a sport in itself, and this also wasn't a matter of a few weeks. It takes time and patience! But i'm very happy with these, although most af them are second hand! When i'm right, i saw your name pass by on the Dutch Farm Toys Forum (https://miniaturenforum.nl/) Hajo, is that correct? I've been active there for a while, some years ago, but didn't find "the right climate" there. So i decided to back-off. Every now and than i take a look around there, but it seems to be very quiet nowadays. Don't know why. I'm visiting mostly to take a look for news regarding new models and stuff. Best regards, Jan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hajo Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 Hello Jan, Dispite you having to save your marriage, that is a nice solution. And for sure, one has to make choices in life, even when it comes to collecting farm models. And yes, I am also active on the Dutch Miniaturenforum, so you might have seen my name there, It has been quiet there for sure, some of our members have continued on social media rather than the forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHITESNAKE01 Posted February 28, 2022 Author Share Posted February 28, 2022 Hi all, Well, if you thought this was it, than i have a little surprise: there's even a fourth showcase!! Yes, it's a smaller one, filled with only models from one brand, and that is Caterpillar. As far as i remember i've always been fascinated by earth-moving equipment, not to say by Caterpillar. I have a remembrance from my early childhood that a man was driving this bulldozer, which apparently was a Caterpillar D4, having my attention for a whole afternoon, without any disrupting! The sound of that mighty machine seems to be even echoing in my ears until today! It made an unforgetable impression on me, and so the "love" for Caterpillar was born. Collecting scalemodels isn't complete for me without a certain amount of Caterpillar models, although prices today are really getting sky-high, forcing the collector to make choices. And so they deserve to be in their own showcase..........😁 Here's a few pictures from my latest showcase, which of course had to be completed with lighting as i wanted it: Just picked up and brought home........⇑ Installing the electricity for new ligths ⇑ Really nice LED-spots from a large Asian webshop....⇑ On it's final spot in my bedroom ⇑ And now it's time to fill it with the models: In the middle on left a 325B LC excavator, which was a "renovation-project" (HERE you can find the proces described), On the bottom left my own home-made D10 made somewhere back in the eighties....... Best regards, Jan 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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