- Member since
January 2018
- From: Glen Allen, Virginia. USA
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Greetings from the Old Dominion!
Hello everyone,
Just thought I'd stop in, say hello, and share a little about myself. As a young child I managed to piece together whatever airplane models my mom found while out shopping in the local discount stores. Back then I didn't care about accuracy, sticky fingerprints, wrong color paints... I just didn't care. Times were simple. Then as I grew older those models got thrown out and replaced with R/C cars. Something I stuck with for a good portion of my life... from 1/12 scale electric to 1/8 scale fuel On-Road. Hung those up about ten years ago as my eye sight and reaction times grew poor. Started getting outrun regularly by what I call the xbox generation and just generally became less competitive. So now along with my poor eye sight, my knees, and back I'm looking to get back into something satisfying to do with my time. I recently visted Hawaii and walked through a few aircraft hangers on Ford Island at Pearl Harbor. Saw some life size dioramas featuring beautiful WW2 birds. Took me back to a simplier time in life and has gotten me excited about maybe creating my own dioramas featuring all those WW2 planes that sparked my imagination back when! Hope to use this forum and resources to learn and refine a craft! Just really need to pick a scale and realize a vision! I'm thinking 1/48 or 1/32... as I mentioned my eyesight isn't what it used to be!
Markus
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