(Ok, horrible subject, but who cares) Hi guys!
An introduction, well lesse.... 28.5 years old, hailing from Germany. Student of Computer Science and an avid scale model builder since birth, I guess. ;-)
For the longest time (read: childhood), building a model meant throwing together a kit and then having to explain to my mother why she needed to buy new pants for me, while cleaning my fingers with nailpolish-remover. :P
That was followed by nearly ten years without kits, until I bought a nice 1:48 Me 262 by Tamiya, some 5 years ago. That one was built with my first airbrush and came out rather nice, especially taking into consideration that I had no experience with any of the tools I used and with my earlier "kit results" in memory.
Anyways, I threw that one away quite recently, the flimsy gear had broken off several times while dusting and I really wanted to do some nice kits. So here I am again, putting together new equipment, with a plan to build a few combat aircraft from the Vietnam war, in mostly larger scales, using reference book and aftermarket details. I hope to get a bunch of starter information here and maybe I can even help out with something. German translations, obscure stuff for WWII builders, whatever. :)
See ya!