I have been doing creative work as long as I can remember and doing models has always been a big part in that. This page is meant to illustrate my path until the start of this Website.
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Castlemania
My first adventures into papercraft were encouraged by my Father, who had built the famous german “Wilhelmshavener” Papercraft when he was a kid himself: Mostly aircraft, but also some, quite big, warships. When I was a kid, he was mostly building castles by another famous german papercraft company, J.F. Schreiber. First I only watched him building, then started to help, and soon started to built them on my own. But that wasn’t enough for me, I also started drawing up my own paper model pages, with a basic ruler only, that didn’t even have a square angle, then couloured with felt tip pens and a regular pencil for grey. Most of them wouldn’t fit at all, but I always found a way to make them fit. First the models were all invented or inspired by J.F.Schreiber's medieval city, but at the peak of this age, I also started to design models of existing castles, most significantly the chateaus of Balingen and Glücksburg in Germany. The unique thing about those models is, that they were created from only one picture each, without three-side view, plans or checking the real place. I just guessed, how the parts looked, that can’t be seen on the photo. These models were unique specimen, since I build them after drawing without making a copy. When I built models I only did it for my own fun.

The best of both worlds
As a teenager I was introduced by my friend Reimar Claes into plastic models, mostly because I had two models lying around at my home, the Aeritalia G91Y and the Messerschmidt Bf 110 by Matchbox. My first plastic models were unpainted but I discovered the painting very soon, and that was what really kept me at building plastic aircraft. In the following years I built over 200 aircraft, much to the distress of my parents, as their basement filled with them. But the models available from the big model companies were not enough, so I started to do my own models again. First from parts unused from several plastic models combined with round wood for the fuselage, then from cardstock. But unlike regular papercraft I didn’t construct them as plans, but fiddled them together from white cardstock. I added clear foil for the windows and used wire for the landing gear. Then I painted them as I would plastic models. If I had fitting decals left over from plastic models I used those, later, I drew the roundels with felt-tip pen and sticked them on the paint. I established my own "brand" called Modelsoft. The aircraft I built were first mostly post-world war jets, to which I also created a whole enemy air force of imaginary adversaries, the Crash Air Force. Later my interest switched to Propeller Aircraft and I built a lot of World War 2 aircraft, mostly Japanese, because they were not available at all, or very expensive. I think the last one I built in that way, was a “Val” divebomber. When I moved out from my parents home to study, I didn't have the space to work and use smelly paints.

some packagings, instructions and decals of Modelsoft