Shep Paine article - Chicago Sun Times

Interesting article, but"

QUOTE: Like many hobbyists, I first became enthralled with Paine's work as a teen in the '70s, clumsily using tubes of foul-smelling plastic cement and small bottles of enamel paint to build the 1/32nd scale plastic tanks (roughly a third the size of the real thing)

Clearly math is not his strong suit

QUOTE: Still a bachelor at age 59

???
Was he ever married? Kind of sad, if building models is enough to keep you from ever getting

QUOTE: Originally posted by zokissima Interesting article, but" QUOTE: Like many hobbyists, I first became enthralled with Paine's work as a teen in the '70s, clumsily using tubes of foul-smelling plastic cement and small bottles of enamel paint to build the 1/32nd scale plastic tanks (roughly a third the size of the real thing) Clearly math is not his strong suit QUOTE: Still a bachelor at age 59 ??? Was he ever married? Kind of sad, if building models is enough to keep you from ever getting

into trouble LoL

http://www.finescale.com/fsm/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=51063

The article discussion has been going on in the FSM Announcements forum for the better part of October and still has replies in November.

gaaah. The article is nonsense I think. (Don't get me wrong, it's great that he got an aritcle written about him, and he deserves it of course) but "a less accomplished modeller could spend 6 months on such a project"?!!!! Since when has speed been an indication of quality?!!