Mjwomack Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 One of my motivations for this GB was to finally get this one built! It's a download and print model of the terminal building at Amsterdam Schiphol from 1928. The architects noorderlicht architekten were involved in the building of the replica of this for the Aviodrome project in 2003... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviodrome Conveniently they produced a cardboard model as part of their PR work and it's still tucked away in a corner of the 'net https://nieuw.noorderlicht.net/projecten/schiphol-1928/ On page 8, but the pictures before that are great. Long ago plan A was to resize it to 1/144 but I"ve not got round to that, so the NEW Plan A was to just build it and print it (though I won't be bothering with the little DC2 that's included). As it's our turn to provide residential care for my father-in-law this weekend, it was going to be a bash out and build to keep me out of studfifying boredom, but I forgot to bring my steel rule... So that LATEST Plan A is to at least make a start and see how I get on. Adding to the fun is I don't really speak Dutch so I've not bothered with the instructions; hoping it's fairly self-explanatory, certainly enough of the tabs seem to be labelled. I'm not the first down this path https://www.papermodelers.com/forum/architectural-models/30245-schiphol-1928-a.html Here then is the sprue, or as has been suggested for card models, the spruce shot On the original Plan A I was going to print it out and back it on stiff card, but for this version of Plan A, I've gone for 220gsm light card and hope for the best (though the base is reinforced with the box from the pizza that I had for lunch to reinforce me) This is the airside elevation, and already those classic lines are apparent, including the stepped roof line (which I admit I hadn't bargained for) Round the back You can see just how many tabs there are for what I assume will be a clerestory window line. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonners Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 I like that (dat vind ik leuk)! Interesting and unusual. I've just read through the blurb about the Schiphol building on the Noorderlicht website and I'm enlightened - I wasn't aware of the Aviodrome reconstruction before now. Quite a project, and it looks great with the Connie being towed past! I've dabbled in card modelling but never with 'keepable' results, so I'll be following this thread. Who knows? I might even download my own mini-Schiphol... Jon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mjwomack Posted April 25, 2021 Author Share Posted April 25, 2021 (edited) 14 hours ago, Jonners said: I've dabbled in card modelling but never with 'keepable' results, so I'll be following this thread. I'm not promising keepable results from this! So far everything is going against it, but at least I've sorted out my luifel from my dak so that's lekker! 14 hours ago, Jonners said: I might even download my own mini-Schiphol... Just messing around with it here, I do wonder if I might come back to it one day on the original Plan A. Scaled to 1:144, even the frontage alone would make an atmospheric backdrop for some aircraft- maybe even a Connie! If my Dutch did get that far, the original lasted until 1943 so it could be a back scene for some Luffwaffe builds even. Even making the whole thing would be smaller than @airfixpeter's B-17 build! or probably @Dave_R's university! And I'm further inspired by @TonyW with his Ford Dealership project. This one could run and run! Edited April 25, 2021 by Mjwomack 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonners Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 6 minutes ago, Mjwomack said: I've sorted out my luifel from my dak 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mjwomack Posted April 25, 2021 Author Share Posted April 25, 2021 So a luigel is a canopy or porch and a dak is a roof... Basic assembly will be finished tonight- it's a lovely distractions from emptying the catheter and bed bath routine😏. Alas, too late in the day I've realised that some of the details were a lot more sophisticated than I realised and can't hep but think I'll come back to this for a 'proper' go one day. The nice things about download and print is that it takes up no space at all in the stash. I've had a go at scaling it and think it's around 1:400, so to enlarge it to 1:144 would make it about 50 cms long. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeroenS Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 9 hours ago, Mjwomack said: but at least I've sorted out my luifel from my dak so that's lekker! Hahaha... good one! You're obviously a quick study 😉 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mjwomack Posted April 25, 2021 Author Share Posted April 25, 2021 4 minutes ago, JeroenS said: Hahaha... good one! You're obviously a quick study 😉 One of our children has lived in Harlem for the past 3 years which helps 😉 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAF4EVER Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 7 minutes ago, Mjwomack said: One of our children has lived in Harlem for the past 3 years which helps 😉 2 A`s in Haarlem The Netherlands,Harlem is a Neighborhood in New York City, New York😈 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mjwomack Posted April 25, 2021 Author Share Posted April 25, 2021 2 minutes ago, RAF4EVER said: 2 A`s in Haarlem The Netherlands,Harlem is a Neighborhood in New York City, New York😈 This is true, even after all this time my phone autocorrects 🙄. I think it felt it had learnt enough Dutch for one day, though I'd argue that lekker is Afrikaans because another of our children lived in South Africa and that was where I learnt it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeroenS Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 9 hours ago, Mjwomack said: though I'd argue that lekker is Afrikaans because another of our children lived in South Africa and that was where I learnt it! I'd argue against that because I already knew the word before I went to SA and discovered they use it there 😉 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterB Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 Given that the original Afrikaaners were of Dutch origin I would suspect that the word originated in the Netherlands and was taken with them to Africa, though over time it may have mutated? Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mjwomack Posted April 27, 2021 Author Share Posted April 27, 2021 33 minutes ago, PeterB said: Given that the original Afrikaaners were of Dutch origin I would suspect that the word originated in the Netherlands and was taken with them to Africa, though over time it may have mutated? Pete Mundane but true. Apparently Afrikaans is to Dutch what Shakespearean English is to the modern version 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonners Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 On 4/25/2021 at 8:48 PM, Mjwomack said: lekker is Afrikaans True, but it's also Dutch. Lekker and leuk are very similar, but lekker is more of a sensory 'nice' whereas leuk is more of an emotional response (I think!). You could also use mooi to describe a presentational response, so I would say that the Aviodrome reconstruction is mooi", but knowing you leufel from your dak is leuk! 🤓 But then, of course, I'm not Dutch so might have learned it completely incorrectly! Sorry - I'm being dull. After all, this is a modelling forum! Jon 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mjwomack Posted April 27, 2021 Author Share Posted April 27, 2021 Well, I did ask how your Dutch was; very good in your case! I adopt a 'smile and wave' approach and declare everything lekker!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeroenS Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 1 hour ago, Mjwomack said: I adopt a 'smile and wave' approach and declare everything lekker!!! That's what we all do! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BKirwan Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 On 4/27/2021 at 2:02 PM, Jonners said: True, but it's also Dutch. Lekker and leuk are very similar, but lekker is more of a sensory 'nice' whereas leuk is more of an emotional response (I think!). You could also use mooi to describe a presentational response, Women are of course the exception to these rules as they can be lekker, leuk and mooi all at once unless of course they are oerlelijk .... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mjwomack Posted May 3, 2021 Author Share Posted May 3, 2021 It's only taken me a week to get round to photographing it.. With my favourite Escher as a backdrop; Night and Day is a woodcut from 1938 so pretty much the right period. This has been rather a case of period modelling, so I tell myself. Having forgotten to take a steel rule with me I had to cut by hand and everything is a bit cruder than it should be as a result, however I do feel it's given it an appropriate feel if not the current techniques that I wanted to use. Who knows, maybe one day I'll get to see the original- both the terminal building and the original Escher (though that would be a return visit😉) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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