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Its aim is to provide information about all aircraft types used or still in use by the Dutch military.
Further modelling information is added, such as available models, their reviews, available modelling add-on, decals and also the colours applied to the aircraft.
At nimh-beeldbank.defensie.nl many old photos are online available with the possibility to enclose them on a website.
I use this possibility to show you some examples and, if possible, some details.
Besides some photo's of my own scale models, also several photo's of my fellow modellers Peter Banis and Adri Kleijn, are added to this websites.
I appreciate this very much.
The colour profiles on this site are primarily meant for illustration purposes rather than reflecting the real thing.
You will understand that this is a project which will take many, many years and will rarely be complete.
The site will be updated on an irregular basis.
In case you have remarks, need some kind of information or even a colour scheme or would like to have something added, don't hesitate and contact me via my Contact page.
I hope you enjoy your visit to this site!
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All information on this website is conscientiously collected and compiled. I take no responsibility for errors arising from the use of this information.
The present drawings are meant for illustrational purposes only. The colours and camouflage patterns are a best possible approximation of reality.
It is nevertheless possible that some errors are listed, I am just a human being.
Use of text, images from this website only after my written permission!
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Here you may find all kinds of web links related to the (Dutch) Air Force, Royal Netherlands Naval Air Service, scale modelling and general aviation.
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I am Wilko Jonker, born in the fifties of the twentieth century in Amsterdam.
At the moment I work at Conclusion.
When did I got infected with the scale modelling virus?
Just like many other men of my age, I used to built every now and than a scale model when I was young.
Sometimes it was a small car or a bi-plane. The bi-plane was often tested for airworthiness, which happened to be very very poor.
For my study at high school we have to read very many books, so we loaned many books at the local library. Among those books, I sometimes took some aviation books with me.
At that time very few books about this subject were available, at least in the Netherlands. It was mainly Hugo Hooftman, who wrote books about Dutch military aviation.
Nowadays there is a lot of criticism on the books he wrote. Historically they are not always correct, but Hugo wrote in a very attractive and enthusiast way.
Especially his stories about the Fokker G-1 made me look for more information and a scale model about this aeroplane.
A local modelling shop in Amsterdam, called Almaro happened to have a vacu formed model produced by Rareplanes.
Unfortunately it was too expensive and to difficult to built for me at that time and I was not an experienced modeller at that time.
The owner of the shop told me that he heard of plans to produce a injected model in Czechoslovakia.
As an alternative I bought a model of the Gloster Meteor 4, a FROG release. This was my first seriously built scale model. The aircraft is still in my collection.
A next model was Grumman F-14 Tomcat released by Airfix. This huge aircraft was well known at that time, because one of these (at that time) very modern aircraft has fallen in sea. The Soviets were very eager to recover this wreck.
Also I have built an AVRO Anson Mk I, also released by Airfix. According to Hugo Hooftman the Ansons of the Dutch Air force where painted yellow. You may understand, that there are lots of colours "Yellow".
I thought the Anson is a military aircraft, so it must not to remarkable, so I mixed yellow with black, so i got a more greyish yellow colour.
Several years later I discovered in the Library some volumes of AVIA, a Dutch aviation magazine, which contained some articles from members of IPMS Netherlands. As a starting modeller I learned lot from these articles.
Several years later, early eighties, I studied at the Technical Highschool in Amsterdam and I worked temporarily at air base Soesterberg. In a modelling shop at Zeist I found some forms from IPMS Netherlands. I sent one of these forms to the Dutch IPMS and became member of IPMS.
I hope you enjoy this web site about Dutch military aviation and scale modelling.
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On this personal website you can find all kinds of information about Dutch military aircraft.
This are planes used by the Royal Netherlands Naval Air Service, referred to as RNlNAS (Marine Luchtvaart Dienst = MLD), used by the Royal Netherlands Air Force, referred to as RNlAF (Koninklijke Luchtmacht = KLu) and its predecessors and also aircraft used by the Royal Netherlands-East-Indies Air Force, referred to as RNEIAF ( ML-KNIL = Militaire Luchtvaart van het Koninklijk Nederlands-Indisch Leger)).
As far as it concerns the RNlAF I refer to RNlAF after World War II and to LVA (Luchtvaart-Afdeeling = Airforce divison of the Dutch Army) before the second World War. I am aware that this is historically not correct, because the Dutch Air Force had its name changed several times.
Also available on this site are the aircraft used by the Dutch RAF squadrons during the second world war, such as squadron 320, squadron 321, squadron 322 and also Dutch Communications Flight and the Dutch Auster squadron.
Just before the second World War several civil aircraft were 'claimed'; these aircraft are not all in this listing, partly because I have hardly any or no information about these aircraft and also because I think these aircraft were not owned.
Also the so called "sleutelkisten", aircraft used by the technical services and training and never flew operational with Dutch markings are not mentioned.
Also hired aircraft, such as training aircraft used by the RNlNAS, are not mentioned on this site.
Further a note concerning the dates mentioned. In several occasions I have mentioned a date with the first day of the month.
In most occasions I mean that the exact date is unknown, but (most probably) is somewhere during that month.
The dates are given in European style (dd-mm-yyyy) and also numbers are given also in European style.
In case you have some information for me, corrections or just a question, you can contact me via contact page
I hope you enjoy your visit to my website.
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