- Member since
January 2015
- From: Katy, TX
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Howdy from Texas!
Posted by Aggieman
on Sunday, March 1, 2015 10:51 PM
i am actually here to re-introduce myself, as I have posted to these forums for several years before I took a self-imposed moratorium.
I am a native Texan who has never lived anywhere else. I have 2 kids, a boy and a girl who are separated by 14 years. I am married to the best gal one could hope to spend his life with (ie, she tolerates my interests of modeling and college football). I am a Texas Aggie, Class of 1989, and my son has just graduated from there as well. I am a software engineer by trade with expertise in SQL Server, the Visual Studio line of development products and Delphi. I love big action movies or sci-fi/fantasy stuff ... Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Captain America and the other Avengers, Alien... We are certified Disney World nuts. We went in 2000, then again in 2011 and a surprise trip for our daughter in 2013, with plans to go again in a couple of years. And of course, as an Aggie, I am particularly interested in the athletic programs at Texas A&M University, mostly football. Love the move to the SEC.
I have always been fascinated with WWII, most particularly aviation. I built my first model, a Monogram P-40, when I was 3. I built all of Monogram's kits and most of Revell's kits when I was growing up. Then Star Wars came out and I turned my attention to those MPC kits of X-Wings and Darth Vader's TIE Fighter. Then I got to high school, where girls and baseball took all my attention. That of course continued through A&M, so I was on hiatus from the hobby for at least a decade ( although it was not a total blackout as I built a few models during those years, most notably the big Revell 1/32 Tomcat the summer that Top Gun came out, and a big-scale F-117 by Testors when the first Gulf War started. The modeling bug never left me, so after my son was born I remember going through a K-Mart and seeing a plane I had never built, a Revell Beaufighter in 1/32. I grabbed that kit, along with a bunch of others and started building again.
Over the years I picked up lots of tips and tricks from reading FSM, so I thank everyone here who has helped me produce what one friend of mine has said are "museum quality" models (her words, not mine).
Steven "Aggieman"
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