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Special Interview with Beat Felber aka Engineering with ABS
After a long break, we continue our series of Special Interviews starting with a very talented model builder. This weeks guest of honor is Beat Felber a.k.a. Engineering with ABS from Switzerland. He is known for his amazing realistic and huge vehicle model MOC's. Photos from the work of our guest will be presented between the questions but you should check the builders Flickr photo-stream for tons of amazing creations
Kaplan: We already know you are one of the best
LEGO MOC'ers in the world. What can you tell us about yourself other than that?
Beat: First of all I would like to thank you for the
opportunity to share some of my thoughts with other LEGO fans out there. Rather
than being a top MOC'er, I consider myself to be an avid scale modeller. My name is Beat Felber and I live in the
northernmost part of Switzerland, close to the border with Germany. I am aged
40 and work as an engineer at an electric power plant.When not building LEGO models, I tinker with
and drive a 1984 Land Rover 110, do some photography and I am also a
firefighter with the local volunteer fire department. Back in 2001 I decided to share my LEGO
creations with other like-minded people on the internet. It was the birth of my
homepage www.engineeringwithabs.ch. I called this site Engineering with ABS
because I thought it describes what I am doing: building models of technical
stuff using LEGO bricks made of Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS). In the
meantime, I switched over to Flickr. The original homepage is still online but
not maintained any more.
K: Do you remember the day when you got your
first LEGO set? Which set was it? And How old were you when you started playing
with LEGO bricks?
B: The first sets must have been Duplo sets. Of
course, I don’t remember them exactly any more. But I do have fond memories of
my very first Technic Set: Technic Universal Building Set 8030. I got it as a gift from my late granddad when he was celebrating his 60th
birthday. I just turned four years old that day! My first City set was the Shell ServiceStation 377.
