I want to express my sincerest gratitude to all my friends, who inspired me and made it possible to realize this homepage.

They advised me with their respected view and vision. A particular gratitude comes to...

Rogier Donker, Indiana (USA), excellent translator, teacher and true friend.

Then there is:

Sander van Wijk (Netherlands) for permitting me to shoot so many of his Era 1 models, since we share a mutual Era 1 interest.

Chris Manvell (United Kingdom) for letting me use all his fine N- and Z-Scale pictures and who frequently checks my website for broken URL's

Jens Braun, Aristoteles Held, Peer Donner, Jörg Straube, Michael Biaesch, Volker Spieth, Thomas Lösch, Christian Bauer, Rudolf Appel, Peter Effert, Robert Seis, Klaus Gögg, Alfred Büchele, Siegfried Nann, Martin Kohler (Germany)

Derya Ferendeci and Erkut Baykal (Turkey)

Yves Brochard, Emmanuel Bournez and Patrick Sambourg (France)

Phil Barker (USA)

Daniel Petrov (Russia) 

Vadim of a-z-models.com.ua (Ukraine), who gave me excellent pictures of rare models from the 1960's.

And many other friends all around this globe,  who kindly permitted to use many of their fine pictures for the Gallery and ModelsList.

A special gratitude ~ unseen in the world of manufacturers ~ goes to Frau Karin Wirtz-Bachmann from Westmodel, for sending me all the remaining and original Westmodel pictures she could find in the Westmodel Files (March 2007 viz. February 2008).

Mr. Thomas Maulu from Micro Metakit (Landshut) introduced me into the office for digitalizing all their models visually (July 13th, 2009) and Andreas Mehrl from Micro Feinmechanik who kindly sent me all available pictures (January 2011).

Jens Klose from Crottendorf gave kind permission for using all pictures from both MMC and Weinert.