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Thanks for the thread HooYa. As a relative newcomer I have found it interesting and informative, a little sad too.

I would hate to say that "Surface Line" is not very exciting, but it is certainly not very imginative.  That was my speacialty as a naval officer, and the avatar here is the device. 

Something that looks so simple sure was a major effort to attain.

Rick Heinbaugh

Knox is my last name, and what most of my friends call me by.  My avatar is a picture of the country I grew up in.  I lived in the highlands, and we took our vacations on the coast, usually at Madang. I know I’m biased, but it is the most beautiful country on earth. 

My nickname probably isn't all that exciting. I am a graduate of Texas A&M University, the Fightin' Texas Aggies. I am a college football nut with a wardrobe comprised of a lot of maroon (school's primary color). I am also male, so Aggieman fits me pretty well.

For me it was okay to ride the 90 mile round trip to the club site once a month. But now I work nights in that city and do the 90 mile round trip every single day. So even if I had the day off, I don't want to drive 90 miles round trip to go to the city to be at a club meeting.

Ironic, Colonel.

I just looked at our local chapter. They meet Mondays 1.30 to 4.00.

I've gone back to work 9-5.

Go figure...

Bill

GMorrison

I should join IPMS. I've un-retired, but that has made my schedule more predictable.

 

Bill

 

I was an IPMS member for years.  Great magazine for sure.  I decided to stop competing and I let my membership lapse. I should join again to support the hobby if nothing else.  

I should join IPMS. I've un-retired, but that has made my schedule more predictable.

Bill

Well I belong to two IPMS chapters, pres. of one, so I meet fellow modelers at least once a month.  I used get around a lot more, I can't drive at night any more, but I like seeing guys and their kits better.  I know that some Denver guys come here as well.  (Hi guys).  We have done meetings at my home.   We just started doing meeting again, post quantine.

   I think Hunter was a wildland firefighter, I used to be familiar with the air rescue/ ambulamce service in Western Montanta, either way a tragic loss to his family and ours on the forums.

      I remember som other folks like jelliot53, from Idaho. Met him face to face at the Spokane hub however we did not say in contact. Probably my fault more than his.

Was a SAR training exercise. He was a paramedic and rescue man.

Hunter was a young kid, maybe in his late 20s. When he first came on board, he had recently lost his dad. And in a short time, one of his female relatives or wife wrote to say he had passed away, something to do with Fire fighting and helicopters IIRC.

ChuckW posts from time to time on Aeroscale. Doogs ATX has his own site, Doogsmodels.com.

Other former FS Forum contributors show up on Aeroscale and Britmodeler as well. 

I do remember Karl aka The Doog running into some servious legal problems and someone updating us on his status. That was sad all the way around, but indefensible.

And that is why I posted the links to the old threads on this subject. If only the forum link function would perform as designed. 
Rex, died a few years back. Anyone remember Hunter, who also died in a work related training accident? It would be nice if vonHammer came back out of the whereabouts unknown. He did briefly appear under a new handle during the last forum dustup, but then dropped out again. Bernie/Phantom Phixer passed on several years back- his firsthand knowledge of the F-4 was immensely helpful to members here. Bitbite was a fun scoundrel (combat yard gnomes anyone?) who relocated to southern Oregon and occasionally communicates back channel, but has been on radio silence for awhile now. I'm sure that I've left out many more, not previously mentioned yet.

keavdog

 

 

GMorrison

Not great politics but his builds were wonderful. I think he was a commercial cartoonist. 'Chuk w' maybe 

 

 

 

All politics are simultaneously not great politics and great politics, otherwise there would be no politics.  Kind of a Schrodinger's Cat thing

Some day I will be quoted on that statement 

 

I also miss Rex 'Tarnship". seemingly endless knowledge about the USN carrier operations, ships and aircraft in the Vietnam era.

HvH stopped answering my personal messages a couple of years ago. I really hope he is still around. He was a bounty hunter for awhile so who knows? 

His father and at least one of his uncles were lifers in  the USAAF/ USAF.

There's a great photo around of his Uncle John in the cockpit of a P-39 at Henderson  Field and another one was somehow connected to the famous F-86 with the dragon on it in Korea. Good history stuff.

Bill

GMorrison

Stik, makes me nostalgic for the no-longer-here.

namrednef; He was an auto body guy (hint; read it backwards).

Hans von Hammer: artful literature figure.

razrdg; David Shaver

And of course the great Manstein.

There was a member who did incredible WIP s which he populated with a fem-na z i in tight tee shirts named hilda or heidi.

Not great politics but his builds were wonderful. I think he was a commercial cartoonist. 'Chuk w' maybe?

 EDIT: http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/2/t/134417.aspx?page=1

Bill

 

 

Deafpanzer.        Hinksey

Wingnut.             Jagdpanther302

Pvtmutt.              Dupes

Blacksheep214.     Wbill76

DoogsATX.            Detailfreak 

The Doog.              Espins1

keavdog

All politics are simultaneously not great politics and great politics, otherwise there would be no politics.  Kind of a Schrodinger's Cat thing

Some day I will be quoted on that statement 

Its a good statement...and I just quoted it, so your prophecy came true!    The same can be said about the models we build.  If we judged models (especially military models) on the politics in the history behind them, there would be no models. 

GMorrison

Not great politics but his builds were wonderful. I think he was a commercial cartoonist. 'Chuk w' maybe 

Some day I will be quoted on that statement 

What was up with Manstein? I never had any issues with him, but it seems like others may have and the powers that be banished him.

There was also a Far Eastern member named Model Maniac that Gino had a issue with. He posted photos of commission builds by a modeler named Art Instructor or AI that Gino would rip apart. It got old fast, and I never could figure out why he just didn't scroll on by and leave the poor guy alone.

Did HvH pass away?

Stik, makes me nostalgic for the no-longer-here.

namrednef; He was an auto body guy (hint; read it backwards).

Hans von Hammer: artful literature figure.

razrdg; David Shaver

And of course the great Manstein.

There was a member who did incredible WIP s which he populated with a fem-na z i in tight tee shirts named hilda or heidi.

Not great politics but his builds were wonderful. I think he was a commercial cartoonist. 'Chuk w' maybe?

 EDIT: http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/2/t/134417.aspx?page=1

Bill

"Castel" is Italian for castle. "Nuovo" is Italian for new. Several towns and villages along Dalmation coast have names that include one or both of these words. 

Since I was and still a bit am a triathlon fanatic, the photo is appropriate. 

Fine, so let memories be memories, and old friends be old friends. But there are some new friends here, and I think (I maybe wrong, but it will not be the first time) that a certain level of familiarity might help in the communication. We all want to do the best we can, and our friends here,new or old, try to help where they can. There is a tremendous amount of knowledge and talent among these bums, our friends. It would be a shame to waste it. And sometimes we step on toes. We don't mean it but it happens. So, we say sorry and move on, friends again.

To all who dwell among these pages, if I have offended, I apologize. To all I have assisted, you are welcome, I was my pleasure. Thank you.

Not trying to be obstinate, and the forum search, like many other functions, sucks. But I was pointing out that the subject has been raised every so often. I copied and pasted the links into the link function on the menu, but like most things on the forum menu nowadays, it's really doesn't work well. They were supposed to be clickable "hot links".

I read thru the old threads, names and such, and saw old friends here from days past, some dead (literally), some MIA- whereabouts unknown, and their posts gave me a smile. Hopefully a few others had similar pleasant memories of past times and members here. After all, those old names do pop up every so often on other old threads dug up now and again.

Hey stikpusher, you got a point here or just being obstinate? So what if there was an earlier thread of this nature. Everybody else seems to be participating and enjoying it; what's your issue?

And, if you're going to point it out, at least make your links clickable; otherwise you are just being obtusive.

One more old similar thread...

http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/general_discussion/f/50/t/157911.aspx?page=1