Everything started in 1993.  Vira had owned a 2 horse power car for several years.  With tears in her eyes she had to say farewell to it after so many years of service.  At a flea market at Ramsel (Belgium) she bought an identical scale model.  Then her urge to collect 2 HP's and all the other Citroëns that came with it began.  One thing lead to another.  When there were no Citroëns for sale one day, she bought a beautiful bus and so she started her collection busses.

With Roger everything started in 1997 when he met Vira and didn't knew what he was doing on those flea markets.  To have something to do and the fact that he drove a Renault, he started his collection of Renault miniature cars.  As the findings at the market dropped, he started a second collection: old-timers.

We were immediately crazy about it when we received in 2002 the collection rescue-vehicles from Louis and Chris Vertommen.  We had to store it in boxes at our loft because of lack of time and place.   Now, one year later we are fond of it and we are looking for rescue-vehicles to enlarge this collection too.

Important about our collection is that we practically never buy new cars.  Almost all cars are used and we bought them on flea markets or markets where children sell their toys.  So you can see that such a collection can be very cheap.  When you trade with others, you can get a whole collection together.

During the basic lessons FrontPage of Microsoft at the internet course at Saint Josef's College in Aarschot (Belgium) the idea came to create a website about model cars.  Because I had no digital camera available, I had to find another solution to digitalize the cars.  After several disappointing attempts to solve everything with a scanner, there finally came a positive result.  Every car that you could admire on our site was scanned with a HP5100C-scanner on 150 dpi.  To project enough light on the cars, I put together a box with aluminium foil taped on the inside and a bright paper as background.  This box was placed over every car while scanning.  This monks work resulted in a whole bunch of pretty pictures.
After half a year we've decided to renew the whole site.  Now we took pictures with a digital camera: Canon Powershot A5 Zoom.  The dimensions of each picture has been adjusted and all the pictures were optimal saved to publish on the web.  With this work the quality and the size of the pictures became much better.

The homepage and the photo grids are completely designed in Corel 8.  All the cars are from our collection and the cartoon on the entry-page was drawn on a market in Avignon (France).  It has a place above my computer. (Just click on it !!!)

Attention
Do you have any cars that are not part of our collection and you don't do anything with them? Or you are a collector and do you want to trade? Don't hesitate to give me a sign by E-mail !!!

Also we would like to have your opinion on this site.  What do you think about it?  Got any advise to make it better?  Do you know other URL's about model cars?  All reactions are welcome.