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  • Member since
    July 2009
  • From: Okeana/Cincinnati, Ohio
Posted by DA6righthand on Monday, July 6, 2009 9:18 PM
thanks everybody for the welcome!
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    January 2009
  • From: clinton twp, michigan
Posted by camo junkie on Monday, July 6, 2009 1:45 PM
Sign - Welcome [#welcome]...yet another newbie!
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Posted by mg.mikael on Monday, July 6, 2009 10:42 AM
Sign - Welcome [#welcome] to the forums, DA6righthand!!! Hope to see you around!Wink [;)]

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Posted by rjkplasticmod on Monday, July 6, 2009 8:03 AM

Welcome to the Forums Sign - Welcome [#welcome].  Glad you're here.

Regards,  Rick

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Posted by subfixer on Monday, July 6, 2009 3:37 AM

I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

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  • From: South Central Wisconsin
Posted by Daywalker on Sunday, July 5, 2009 11:41 PM

Sign - Welcome [#welcome] to the forums!  So glad to hear that you are not letting your setbacks keep you down.  Good on you for having the drive to get better.

I think you will love that Tamiya 109E-4/7, my all time favorite kit as a matter of fact. Thumbs Up [tup]

Frank 

 

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  • From: Boyertown, PA, USA
Posted by Dubau on Sunday, July 5, 2009 10:28 PM

Sign - Welcome [#welcome]     Sign - Welcome [#welcome]     and     Sign - Welcome [#welcome]

You will find a lot of friends here to talk to and ask things too. I read about what happened to you and I have to say WOW!

Bow [bow]

U the MAN.

Can't wait to see your Hasegawa Bf109f-4 and Revell P-47D Thunderbolt.

Bud

" You've experienced a set back, and without set backs and learning how to fix them you'll never make the leap from kit builder to modeler "
  • Member since
    July 2009
  • From: Okeana/Cincinnati, Ohio
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Posted by DA6righthand on Sunday, July 5, 2009 10:09 PM

Hi all! I'm a newbie to these forums. I'm registered to Hyperscale but haven't posted yet, I just read.

Now for a little about myself. I'm 22 years of age and have been a modeler since I can remember. My dad got me started with model cars. I started building WWII era airplanes in my early teens. Then sometime around when I got my license, I found out there are other kits out there besides Revell and built my first Tamiya kit. I was building the JGTC race cars when I was involved in a car accident right before my 19th birthday. I was passenger in a friends car that rolled side over side several times. The roof collapsed on me and burst fractured my 5th vertebrae in my neck leaving me a C6 Quadriplegic. The only function I have as far as my hands is my wrist flexors. I can curl my wrist up which makes my fingers contract I thought for 2 years that I couldn't build models anymore but I decided to give it a try anyways. So far since then, I've learned I can't hook up my airbrush to my air compressor and that's about it. I can do everything else. I didn't think it was possible but ya never know.

I've yet to complete a model but I'm very close. I have a Hasegawa Bf109f-4 and a Revell P-47D Thunderbolt I'm decaling that I should have both done this week. I'm getting ready to start building a Tamiya Bf109 E-4/7 and Heinkel He219 Uhu too. I was brush painting cockpits and landing gear but those two kits will be my first that will be mostly airbrushed. I jump from project to project as I'm sure others do too, which is why it's taken me forever to get a model done.

I'll be posting my questions and a WIP thread or two here soon. Take it easy on me and feel free to ask any questions you want!

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