Any disabled/handicapped modelers out there?

let's c

1          1/2 a foot chopped of 11 months ago due to diabetes

2           1 toe missing from same diabetes

3          nerve dam  due to above

4             two forms of arthritis  one form causing my 2 pinkies to curl under   i smashed one of them 2 weeks ago to straighten it out

5            muscular athropy  (muscles are de-generating)

6            losing eyesight cause of the diabetes

7            bad back (pain 24/7  )

8            fibromyagia  (chronic pain all over )

9             kidneys dam. due to diabetes

other than that  i feel great    

    i never show my work   it ain't good enough

I am deaf and I am proud of it if you can look at my profile name.  Born that way and I have a deaf brother too... doctors think it was caused by genes from my parents.  I am cool with that...

I consider being deaf a blessing in disquise... I can't hear those whinings, baby crying in a restaurant or even in a plane since I travel often.  I talk better underwater when I go scuba diving with my wife.  How?  We use American Sign Language (ASL). 

How does my deafness affect my modeling?  Not much... only drawback is watching those video clips here on FSM or Youtube and they are not captioned.

Aaron Skinner, maybe you can do something if you are reading this.

Love live ASL.... death to AGB!

I thought I posted this the other day . Here goes again . I just found out today ,  I NOW have a chronic pain situation on top of the nervous disorder and what I call " SIR SHAKESALOT " .This however does NOT stop the building . I have already modified my building techniques to allow for it . I must say though , I had a friend in ARKANSAS .(Back when I was involved with CAMS ( now a different name using the same letters ) This friend was also LEGALLY blind .So he always rode to meetings and contests with me .That,s alright , He was one fine darn armor model builder . He got me into BANDAI,S 1/48 scale armor (boy do I miss those little jewels .) My friend worked at the MED . Ctr. there as an x-ray tech . He did ,on many occassions, find things on the film that the doctors with 20/20 completely missed . He said it was because he almost had to wear them that this happened . I admired his spunk and overall attitude of ( "Who , me disabled ? NAW !!) So there you have it . You do some darned fine work so how are you disabled ?  . A person is only unable to do as is their frame of mind . Keep on keeping on and thanks for the photos .        tankerbuilder        P.S. If your brain ain,t broke , everything else is just a small annoyance .

I am disabled but not in a way that would directly affect my modeling.  I'm missing part of my right leg, the part I lost controls my foot and had to have a tendon transplant in my foot to keep it from flopping around.  If I sit for a while without propping my foot up it will swell to 2-3 times it's normal size.  Since I can't prop my foot up while modeling, I can't sit around all day working on models.  Which is why most of my projects are short work times.

Spent the majority of my time here as a member while in a wheelchair... Last Feburary I finally got the hip surgery that allowed me to walk again after 3 1/2 years in the chair..  By mid-May I was out of the chair entirely, although I still use it as a modeling chair...  I'll be back in it after I get the other hip replaced in October, but only for a few weeks...   

If anything, it allowed me MUCH more build-time, lol... 

If anything, it's my eyesight that's going, but mostly just due to the fact that I'm getting older... I have to use readers now to paint any kind of deail, or work with tiny parts... I have some cataract issues, but they're not yet in my line of sight..  It's the damned "floaters" that get in my way more than anything... 

… and the sexy cane. (You can’t believe be how I’d like to throw my cane off a high building …) Subtle like the “b” in “subtle”.

I just got finished looking at your ships . I think you do some great work . I especially liked the " HABBAKUK " . Many times I will do a " what if  " using glue bomb liners I find at the flea market .  Have you done this ? it can be fun can,t it  ?     tankerbuilder