I've just recently joined the forum after reading FSM for awhile. My name is Ken and it's been 50 plus years since I've built any models. I'm a retired electrical engineer. As an avionics technician, I spent 10 years in the USAF and ANG working on P-51Ds on up to F-102As. Also, have been a licensed pilot and owned a couple of aircraft. My engineering career was spent primarily at a research lab working with aircraft used in atmospheric research. So, I guess it's only natural that I try something related to aviation again and have begun to try to become something more than a glue-it-together boxkit builder.
I've already received some great advice from you guys and I'm grateful for that. Seeing what you people can do with a model is pretty awesome and intimidating, but it does provide some incentive to try to excel. My interest is aircraft, if you haven't already guessed, and am currently trying to finish a 1:72 Heller T-33A. The darn thing seems to be pretty small though, so my next attempt will be a Tamiya 1:48 F-51D, which might fit my fingers and eyesight a little better. I'm gonna try to build one of each of the military types that I've worked with in the past, but when it warms up a bit, there's likely to be some interference from time out for golf.
Thanks again for your help, and I look forward to getting a lot more good advice from this great website/forum. I know I'm gonna need it! ![Smile [:)]](/emoticons/icon_smile.gif)