Hi, ... My name is Bill, Just turned 50 and have enjoyed modeling since I was a young kid. It's been so long, ... it is hard to remember exactly when I started, but it was around 8-10 years of age. Funny thing is when I was layed off from a job at 30, ... I was looking at the unemployment section in the newspaper and saw a job as a model maker. I thought to myself as I looked at a couple of shelves full of models that I had built or scratched, ... and said, ... No Sweat! Although when I went for the interview, I soon realized, um, ... wrong kind of models, These were prototype models of any and all industries prototyping. Well after B.Sing my way into the job, ... I took to it like I had been doing it for years.
Well to this day, I am still working in that field. Currently, I run the prototype lab inside an industrial design firm in California and LOVE IT! Best of all, ... I'm getting paid for basically enjoying our hobby!
I do enjoy building the plastic models, I have taken it one step further, ... "INSANELY HUG " scale models, 1/5 scale models to be exact. The plastic models are GREAT reference to details and I take full advantage of that and I also use all the same techniques as used in the plastic models with only a few exceptions.
I just signed up to the forum and subscribed to the magazine in order to learn the more advanced techniques used in the smaller scales. Some of the models you guys produce are flat out amazing to say the least.
I'll see you in the forums and hope to contribute in a meaningful way and if I can help others doing so, ... all the better.
Bill