Aiken, S. Carolina says HELLO!
New to the New Age of Modeling - although not to modeling itself. I started building models when I was a kid and models were made by Aurora, Monogram and Lindberg - period. They cost 50 cents or a dollar and were put together with tube glue. My favorites from those days were the Aurora "monsters," The Creature from the Black Lagoon and the Guillotine being my most vivid memory. That was my First Modeling Phase.
Then when I was in the NAVY I met a bunch of modelers, as every base had more than a few. Thus started my Second Modeling Phase. It was then that I wanted to do props and WWII subjects and you had to buy BOOKS to find pictures and details of such things. I got my first airbrush (Badger 350 - still have it) and learned real techniques then.
Today I'm in my Third Modeling Phase. I need to upgrade my airbrush and I need a magnifier lamp, as my eyes arent what they once were. My old tools still work, thankfully, as do my even older hands. There's the internet, a seemingly never ending source of reference material and inspiration. IPMS is bigger than it ever dreamed it would be and many sites are out there for the modeler.
I was a subscriber to FSM back when there was no such thing as the 'Net and I learned alot from reading and re-reading those tattered pages. I wished, now, that I had held on to them...
Anyway, Ill get my first Third Phase model done one day soon and post it. Meanwhile, howdy-hey from Dixie.