My name is Bert Selier, born in the Netherlands and a retired A/P Maintenance Controller.
I have been working 40 years with Transavia Airlines. I had been thinking what to do when I retire. When I found a copy of FineScale Modeler in a bookshop (February 1990 issue) with an article about filling cabin windows for an Airliner. It was after reading that article I became hooked, and began building model airplanes when I was about 47. And have been modeling ever since. The first, plane (helicopter) I built was the Alloutte 3 because I did work on it during my time in the Air Force (mandatory at that time in the Netherlands). Then I became a member of the Dutch IPMS, and a couple of years later a member from the SIG Airliners and Civil Aviation. Our group produces Airliners and other airplane’s which have been civil registered, for example several NASA airplanes are civil registered, you may think about race planes, fire bombers. I am also interested in experimental and reconnaissance aircraft.
Our group does have a meeting every two months at different locations, mostly a modelers shop, who are willing to have us, and organizes some tables and put the date and time on their Internet site. The group take their models finished or not, and show them on the tables. We will discuss our models and the problems we have had, and we talk about to make a decision for the special theme for the Nationals, a contest once a year. Besides this we organize small trips for airplane spotting along a runway in use at that location. One of our members searches the Internet and sends us regularly new airplane and decals made by different manufacturers.