alaninaustria Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 Nice to meet you Tery, we are neighbors - you are in CZ and I am in Austria! Happy modeling and welcome to the forum! Cheers Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaninaustria Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 Welcome aboard Rick! Happy modeling and enjoy the forum, lots of great people here! Cheers Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Smith Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 (edited) Good grief - I have neglected to say a proper hello, having just found this post. Great idea to have this! I'm Phil Smith and have been building models for most of my adult life. I think my first serious go of it was a Testor's 1/12 Lamborghini model back in 1993 or so. However, my true passions are spaceflight and Cold War history. I've also been employed in the space industry for over 20 years. I suppose it's natural that I build models of real space subjects and, on occasion, science fiction spacecraft. I built a 1/12 Mercury capsule (Atomic City) some years ago and this marked my first foray into "advanced" model building, where I used a variety of new techniques and employed a significant amount of scratch building. Of course, I also love building scale models of aircraft, and I select these mainly on two criteria: 1) high quality kit and 2) aesthetics (essentially, the aircraft must look interesting). My favorite parts of model building tend to focus on super detailing cockpits and engines, and weathering. To scratch these itches when it comes to spaceflight, I typically need to resort to science fiction as real space subjects leave something to be desired. Refurbishable vehicles (e.g., Space Shuttle Orbiter), or those that return (e.g., Mercury) present obvious opportunities on the real space side. For SF, something like Hasegawa's Millennium Falcon will do nicely. On aircraft, I have a soft spot for WWII and Vietnam War-era subjects. My first serious treatment here is the Tamiya 1/32 P-51K, which I am just about to finish. My next project will be the Moebius 1/48 Aries-1 shuttle from 2001: A Space Odyssey, but I have a stash of 1/32 aircraft I want to tackle, including an A-10, F-4C, F-104A, F4U, and A-6E. I'm not sure which of these I will grab next, but I am considering maybe doing two at a time... Nice to "meet" everyone! Edited September 2, 2022 by Phil Smith LSP_K2, LSP_Kevin, MikeMaben and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom2 Posted September 6, 2022 Share Posted September 6, 2022 Nice to have you aboard! Stefan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 OK, so despite being pretty active in this community for a few years now, I have never posted anything here. So here's a selfie I took today at the USS Midway Museum in San Diego (where I'm visiting this week on business). In the background is an A-4 Skyhawk. BiggTim, Archimedes, Rockie Yarwood and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 Alex , so you're a handsome devil just like the rest of us. Alex and Rockie Yarwood 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 FYI: I've just given this thread a massive prune, removing much of the detritus, including most of the posts containing broken image links (the Photobucket debacle haunts us still). It's around 10 pages lighter now. Here's a recent photo of yours truly: Kev LSP_K2, Archimedes, dutik and 8 others 9 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeC Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 (edited) I thought I'd put a photo on this thread, but perhaps it was so long ago it was on Photobucket and thus got culled. So this is me: That's also me in my avatar, in the front seat of G-APFU in 2006, about to commit aviation. The trip was a present for a "significant" birthday some years ago. Edited October 20, 2022 by MikeC LSP_Kevin, Archimedes, Out2gtcha and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiggTim Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 A lot of us seem to have some sort of problem with our hair being over exposed....makes us all look like we have gray hair. Oh, wait.... CANicoll, LSP_Kevin, Rockie Yarwood and 6 others 2 5 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archimedes Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 This is a shot of me in South Carolina recently when I was gliding: Flying a Schweizer 2-33A N2677H Jim Barry, dutik, BiggTim and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Barry Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 Me, pretty much. Sitting at the bench in my tiny house studio in the backyard. MikeMaben, Archimedes, Out2gtcha and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 I would bet Maine would be gorgeous this time of year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 Since I haven't done this in years, here is yours truly (not sure what I was doing exactly at the time) at a local state park a few hours north of us here in NE over this past weekend. Jim Barry, LSP_K2, Archimedes and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_K2 Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 On 10/20/2022 at 4:11 AM, LSP_Kevin said: FYI: I've just given this thread a massive prune, removing much of the detritus, including most of the posts containing broken image links (the Photobucket debacle haunts us still). It's around 10 pages lighter now. Here's a recent photo of yours truly: Kev That's a bit of a surprise, Kev. In the majority of the other photos of you that I've seen, you look a lot younger. BiggTim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 2 hours ago, LSP_K2 said: That's a bit of a surprise, Kev. In the majority of the other photos of you that I've seen, you look a lot younger. I didn't think I looked too bad for 30. But here are some alternatives that you might like better: Kev BiggTim, LSP_Matt, MikeMaben and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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