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...Don't Cross the Streams...
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 19, 2003 7:33 AM
I have been posting here for a little while, and have always gotten an answerer to help me out.

Anyway, the Real Name is David Erskine. My friends call me Egon because there is a striking resemblance to Egon Spengler from The Ghostbusters movie. I've heard the actor has ballooned out a bit, but probably could get into a grey jumpsuit strap on the Nuclear accelerator backpack and be ready to go.

Back to what I am supposed to be typing here:
I am 37-ish, and I have been modelling for about 23 years. It has been an off and on hobby. Originally it was Battleships (I think I posted most of this in another topic). I built all the American ones, and went on to a couple of Aircraft carriers. One of them was the USS Forrstal.

It is hard to remember where I went from there. I remember 3 very large models. One was a 32 Ford Hotrod, another was a Utiltiy truck with one of those hydaulic lifts on the back. The third was a bright red Corvette.

From there, it was a variety of things, a B29 which I painted silver, a B26 which I also painted silver.

I also built an Apache AH64. I had a model of an F117 or rather what Popular Schience thought it would look like. I have a broken down Catilina in my closet, as well as a futuristic version of a Corvette.

I even built a couple of Mecha; one a Vara-tech and the other a Battle Tech Griffin.

The majority of my models are gone. My Dad still keeps the B26, so it is in good shape. The monstrous B29 is still around, but a couple of props have fallen off. Everything else is broken or gone.

Present day, I have a couple of War Hammer hover tanks (only now realizing that these things are meant to be used not displayed) and a V-22.

I have never built a Tank, though I am enthusiastic about trying one.

Though I have built many models, I find that I am not as good as I'd like. I think there is some talent to it. I don't have that talent, but I can't stop building things.
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Posted by cassibill on Friday, December 19, 2003 8:00 AM
welcome Egon

cdw My life flashes before my eyes and it mostly my life flashing before my eyes!!!Big Smile The 1/144 scale census and message board: http://144scalelist.freewebpage.org/index.html

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 19, 2003 8:33 AM
Welcome Egon. Keep building.

Over and out.
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Posted by M1abramsRules on Friday, December 19, 2003 10:21 AM
Welcome to the forum!
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Posted by pdunkel on Friday, December 19, 2003 12:49 PM
Welcome Egon. Glad to have you here. Great people here with alot of knowledge and willing to help a fellow modeler.



Phil Dunkel
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Posted by shrikes on Friday, December 19, 2003 12:52 PM
Egon, huh? Too late: it's stuck. Welcome (officially) to the fourms!
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Posted by shermanfreak on Friday, December 19, 2003 5:18 PM
Egon it is .... a belated welcome to FSM !!!
Happy Modelling and God Bless Robert
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Posted by lizardqing on Friday, December 19, 2003 7:50 PM
Welcome, better late than never.
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  • From: Third rock from the sun.
Posted by Woody on Friday, December 19, 2003 9:13 PM
Hello Egon, Welcome to the forum.

" I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." --John Paul Jones
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Posted by mark956 on Friday, December 19, 2003 9:39 PM
Welcome David. I am glad you have gotten good information from the site.
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Posted by Keyworth on Friday, December 19, 2003 10:34 PM
Egon, welcome to FSM and the forums. Glad to have you here.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 19, 2003 10:36 PM
Sign - Welcome [#welcome] Egon.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 19, 2003 11:29 PM
Welcome to the wellspring of modelling knowledge, Egon. You'll find great people & useful information here. Have fun !
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Posted by J-Hulk on Saturday, December 20, 2003 9:51 AM
Howdy, Egon! Welcome to FSM.
You wouldn't happen to be related to famous jazz drummer Peter Erskine, would you?
~Brian
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, December 20, 2003 2:59 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by J-Hulk

Howdy, Egon! Welcome to FSM.
You wouldn't happen to be related to famous jazz drummer Peter Erskine, would you?


Erskines in Scotland are like Smiths in the US. There are also a lot of Erskines in the US, though I am not related to a Jazz singer.

My bloodline connects me to a President of Studabaker during the Great Depression, a Plantation owner in the South, and a babysitter for Mary Queen of Scots.

Of coarse, on the unrelated side, there is this Jazz singer, a Golper and some towns and colleges (ok, one of each).
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Posted by stinger on Saturday, December 20, 2003 6:54 PM
Welcome Egon - Your member name looks familiar.

I too, have had an off again, on again thing with my modeling, but I'm trying to make it stick this time around.

My older brother built a few ships when I was but a wee one and he always hated it when I would float them in the bathtubEvil [}:)].

I'm right now on a job assignment in Sterling Heights, MI. Is that near or around where you live? I understand that the movie 8 Mile was based on this region (My worksite is on 16 Mile Rd., aka Big Beaver Road, haha).

Anyway, welcome once again and Merry Christmas

stinger

May an Angel be your wingman, and the Sun be always at your six

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, December 21, 2003 9:39 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by stinger

Welcome Egon - Your member name looks familiar.

[snip]

I'm right now on a job assignment in Sterling Heights, MI. Is that near or around where you live? I understand that the movie 8 Mile was based on this region (My worksite is on 16 Mile Rd., aka Big Beaver Road, haha).

Anyway, welcome once again and Merry Christmas

stinger


I did a name search and found that there are at least two David Erskines!
I work at a place down in Dearborn and I have been with them for almost 4 years. In 99, I was working temp jobs in the tech industry. Before that, I worked at a computer store (now closed) in Madison Hts. (Nova Computers). Before that I worked at Meijer in Rochester.

So I suppose it all depends on the when as apposed to the where. Smile [:)]

I never saw 8Mile.

I currently live in the Hobbiest's Black hole of SE Mich. (that would be Dearborn) =^)
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Posted by therriman on Sunday, December 21, 2003 10:23 AM
Welcome Egon. I'm from Flint myself. I was beginning to think I was the only one from MI here on this forum.
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