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Introduction
In my early childhood I started playing with LEGO; together with my brother
Dennis
I shared the attic of the parental home, where we both had a city on each side of the room. Both towns were connected with each other
by a train track at the edge of the room, while the open space in the middle was used for playing and building.
I must have been very young when I got my first sets. The local builder's merchant had a small corner with toys in his store, which also included
some LEGO. As the store stopped selling toys, and sold everything at low prices, my father decided to buy all the LEGO that was left.
Every now and than he gave us
a small LEGO present. One of those sets was 6684, a police van from 1984.
As a child I reconstructed everything I saw outside; houses, castles, sculptures (mainly based on Billund ones)
and trucks in Model Team size.
After my brother started to use his LEGO more and more for hobby purposes by building trucks, I started to use mine as well for modelling instead
of playing. Instead of making trucks, like my brother did, I mainly made town and castle landscapes using the so-called minifig size.
Castles and tourist centres we saw on holidays in Germany were the main inspiration in those days.
At the end of 2001 most of what I had at that time was demolished, in that year I started constructing the EHLB building,
from which the original is located in Amsterdam. As time passed by it grew like a rather large scenery, making all kinds of canal houses.
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