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Verlinden shut up shop
Topic Started: Sep 16 2016, 11:19 AM (604 Views)
BKirwan
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Just spotted this on Britmodeller : it seems François Verlinden has retired and has shut up shop. Sadly it seems that much of their stock of moulds have just been dumped. see facebook

Its a good day for him, retiring and all but it is sad to see this end this way. If there was one player who pointed the way as to how the hobby would be it was this guy and his army of Belgian artists.

We should mark this : post some photos of models with Verlinden components from your collection. I have a few and will post tonite.

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Heil Mickey!
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Edited by FiSe, Sep 20 2016, 08:43 AM.
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We appear to be the only ones with any Verlinden stuff here. Are we that old ?

Apart from the resin and the figures I thought the Verlinden books were fantastic.I particulary like the Verlinden Way series. 20 years ago when I came back to the hobby it was a copy of this which more than anything else pointed me in the right direction.
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I must have read this 100's of times. All the basics are there and they still hold. Its a pity the binding in these were awful, my copy is stuck together with sellotape and a prayer.

And then there were the diorama books,the Lock-on series and the magazine. This ol Belgium was doing things 30 years ago the rest would immitate later, all those high production value magazines and books.

A great pity that he has stopped and that the ending is so low key, when writing the history of our little hobby this guy will have his own chapter.





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