read my stories

This my blog page where you will find the latest post on top, and years and years of older posts below.
For a more focused way of reading, you can select the Categories underneath My Articles tab at the top !
Enjoy your stay here and check back once in a while!

France

FOR SALE !!

Our wonderful, cozy little apartment in the Trois Vallées area in France, smack in the middle of Europe’s largest skiing area, is for sale !

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Book Reviews

Pen & Sword Books Discount

Pen & Sword Books, one of my favorite publishers, offers one book of their Battleground Series FREE if you buy 3. Great offer and wonderful

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Scale Models

Incredible model railway

You will want to see this (check out the video). It is amazing what people can dream up and make. So creative, and above all,

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Flightsim

A380 SCAM – BEWARE!

  We received this message from Just Flight from the UK. It appears that even our little hobby isn’t safe from criminals anymore! |….. It

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Flightsim

Rise of Flight news

Rise of Flight (777Studios) sends us the following press release: Dear Pilots, The winter is passing us and it’s time to recall a couple recent

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Travel

A walk on the beach

Nina and I decided it was high time for some exercise for a change. And since the sun was shining when we got up, we

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Flightsim

Dolomiti X Longarone for FSX

Our Italian developer Daniele Tona has now released the next in his series of FSX sceneries enhancing the Dolomiti alpine area in northern Italy. Longarone

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Flightsim

Some download problems

or rather: upload problems. From me to my shop, that is. I put DolomitiX -Longarone up for sale on the shop and it turns out

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General

Yay ! More Dutch Gold !

….. and bronze ! Yesterday Margot Boer FINALLY made it into the medals after a life of having been 4th ! And now Groothuis won

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3D Design

LCA’s galore !

My little LCA (Landing Craft Assault) has finally made it into Flight Simulator X and is seen here beached on the sand of Courseulles-sur-Mer. It

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World War 2

WW2 in colour

Surprisingly clear colour movie with clips covering the Invasion and beyond. MUST SEE !  

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Flightsim

New FS Top 100 website

Garry J. Smith has set up a NEW FS Top 100 website, with the aim of providing a list of REPUTABLE flight simulator add-on companies

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General

New tables and content

I am hard at work to re-do the ‘blog’ as you can see. Part of the work includes finding/adding featured images to all the posts

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Scale Models

Scratch-built hangar

Here’s a link to a Facebook page (by Milan Radulovic’s  Aviation Art) showing the progress of a scratch-built background for an aircraft model. Awesome work

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