Old Models
Matthias Harbers
Photos by the author
It is maybe some 35 years ago that I came across my very first paper model, and since then I have built many of them from time to time. Most were lost over time when my parents moved or were given away for exhibition in the shop where I had initially bought them. However, some of my old models still remain at my parents place, and I took some photos during our summer visit.
As so many of you I started with the ship models from Wilhemshavener Modellbogen, out of which I show here some photos for the battle cruiser �Gneisenau�. Although the model is some 30 years old, she is still in reasonable shape:
Somehow around 1980 a new publisher for ship models in the scale of 1 to 250 appeared on the market, the Alster Modell from Hamburg. They started with three models, two ferries and a set of two search and rescue boats. They had announced much more to come including models of the �Prinz Eugen� and the aircraft carrier �Kiev�, but then they vanished after a short time and were never heard of again. Their models of two German SAR boats from the �Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbr�chiger� are still in my collection:
However, other publishers were still to come, and I built later ship
models from JSC and GPM from
Below are some photos given from those builds including the tug boat taken from the S&S catalog from 1996/97 and the coastal freighter �Kanal� from the DSM (a lovely small model I would recommend to everybody):
