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My models for 2020

This year will go into history for the COVID-19 pandemic, which upset most of our lives. I've been lucky in that my loved ones have been unaffected, I have a job and I have a comfortable roof over my head. The main impact that it's had on me is that my social life is officially dead, I'm working from home most of the time and I have not been able to travel as much as I usually do. I did make work trips to the US in February and to the UK in March, but since then I've been mostly at home. The situation had one beneficiary effect: in terms of LEGO models 2020 has been quite productive. I built 19 new models in 2019; this year I built 27 (and modified several other older ones not included in this overview).

As usual, they're a mixed bag, although all are vehicles of some description. I expanded my collection of Japanese cars, built a lot of minifig scale aircraft for the BFVA Experimental Military Collaboration (which we now hope to have in 2021), some minifig scale military vehicles and quite a few other 1/22 scale cars, with an emphasis on emergency vehicles and vans, as well as two 1/36 scale military models.

Three personal highlights are the Japanese Yamato delivery van, because it was a really fun build, my M-21 Blackbird/ D-21 Tagboard, and the final model of the year: my Dutch Police Volkswagen Transporter, which fulfils my long-held desire to have a smaller vehicle with Power Functions remote control. More pictures will follow sometime next week.

My models received a bit of publicity outside of normal LEGO-related channels. My Citroen DS model was featured in La Bombe Citroen, which is the quarterly magazine published by the Dutch Citroen DS/ID owners club; I was interviewed on building LEGO models by the Defensiekrant, which is an online magazine published by the Dutch Ministry of Defense; and recently some of my models were featured in an online article on LEGO military models on CNN.

I already have a few plans for what to build in 2021, but I'm primarily hoping life will go back to normal, even though it will be at the expense of time spent on building.

Taken on: December 26, 2020

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