‘Bouw Mee’ was produced by Albouw, headquartered in Baarn, The Netherlands and sold bij S.I.O., sales office in Amsterdam. Most likely sold in this period: 1949~1953.
The building system consists of wooden columns, wherein wooden fixtures and cardboard plates could be mounted. It’s also possible to create a nice flush bottom layer, inside the fundation trusses.
If you own a box and want to sell it, please let me know. I would love to try this one!
Other sources:
More information: mobaco.nl/BouwMee
SIO, in relation to a cooperation with Albouw from Baarn.
Box A1:
Two boxes are produced: A1 & B1. They both consists of the same manual and a 1:1 drawing with all parts. Box B1 had 88 parts inside.
Parts
Most of the abbreviations could be refered to Dutch names.
Manual
Manual from Mobaco.nl/BouwMee:
Unspecified parts: Box BIII & box cover
Sofar box BIII is never found. Looking to the photo (and reference), it should also contain sqaure windows on ground level. This requires a new part (Z14 in library).
Looking to the front cover of the boxes, there are even more ‘unreleased’ parts. Basically the house in the middle is a ‘small’ version. Currently there are no parts found which fit.
Some system characteristics
Here a short list of some system characteristics and how it’s retrofitted into the virtual LeoCAD library:
| Part types: | Original: | Virtual: |
|---|---|---|
| Columns | Wood 14×14 [mm] | Single color pieces |
| Pannels | Painted cardboard Thickness: 3 [mm] | Single color pieces |
| Sills | Wood | scaled |
| Bay size | 3 sizes | |
| LeoCAD settings: | ||
| Draw line every X studs | – | |
| Snap XY | 1 [mm] 1/20 stud | |
| Snap Z | 1 [mm] 1/20 stud | |
| Rotations | 90 [deg] 52.5 [deg] roof |
Library information
Here an overview of the parts library:
Building in LeoCAD
So let’s build a nice example from the manual: “Kleine Garage met zadeldak”.
Showing the different building steps, for such a lovely building:
A nice comparision, between ‘Bouw Mee’ and ‘Mobaco‘ (Jumbo series):
Seems like a well thought-out construction game!
Although I do have a little worries about those wooden pegs.
I would love to own such a “Bouw Mee” box and give it a try, I you know a box, let me know!