Subscribed to the mag in the early 2000's and saw the advertisement for the site and enrolled in 2003. The site really fueled my interest in buying and building again. Great advise and have met some really cool people over the years. A shame so many have left though.

Eagle90

Wow, had to think about it for a minute.  LOL!  During my 21 years in the Air Force, I stopped building models....due to TMO breaking most of what I had during my first PCS move.  I continued to BUY models, but never built them...they were for my retirement!  That's my story and I'm sticking to it.    After retiring and settling down in a home I wouldn't be leaving in 4 to 6 years, I set up a model room in the basement and jumped back in feet first.  Of course I had been continuing my FSM subscription and read about the Forums.....and the rest is history as they say.  Never regretted it for one moment!  The FSM Forum family rocks!  I have made so many friends, met some of them at shows, and have gotten a wealth of tips, tricks, and information that I can't thank everyone enough for! 

Bobby

P.S.  Toshi....I love your story man!  

 

 

Eagle 90, what was your AFSC?  Mine was 2F0X1.  

Honestly I got into the hobby after a 20 yr hiatus (I was actually helping out Vets and had plenty of down time at work) and was looking around as the modeling world had changed since I was a wee lass and had no access to the Interwebs (or limited access).  I was actually looking for a couple of model stores in the local area and just kinda stumbled upon it.  For a while I just kinda lurked around the site looking for ideas, and finally decided to join.  

Hey guys, great stories there Toshi and Fermis, I've been kinda down, thanks for letting me know how you guys pulled though from a far worse situation than I've in. And beautiful model there GM! 

My first copy of FSM was back in '87 or so I think, I've still got it around somewhere. I don't even remember how I found the forum, I did lurk here for over a year though. I've had bad experiences with several forums I've joined, one of the figure forums I used to belong to it seemed like about 50% of the population actually contributed with posts of their work, 25% were the 'atta-boy!' crowd that never posted anything, and 25% were the troll type pot-stirrers that never posted, never said anything nice about anyone's work, and tried to turn everything into a political or religion rant-fest. Thankfully the FSM forums are pretty troll free and full of helpful nice folks. I believe the few bad apples we did have were tossed out or left a few years ago. Love you guys and gals- in a manly platonic sorta way of course.....   

Toshi

  I then thought of my childhood watching a TV show called “Black Sheep Squadron”.  

 

Toshi

 

Funny you mentioned this show as just yesterday I thought about Robert Conrad. I googled him and he is still alive at 81 years old I believe. I never get tired of watching The Wild Wild West.

As to how I found this forum, I have no clue as to how it hapenned....

When my first wife and I split in '78, I sold all of my hobby stuff and a stash of maybe 50 kits and my Badger 200 airbrush. Back then I subscribed to Scale Modeler magazine. I didn't do much until this past spring when I jumped back into the hobby in earnest. The first kit I finished was a Revell 1/48 Stearman, painted with rattle cans. At the time I bought a copy of FSM, subscribed to the magazine and the forums almost simultaneously. Very soon I also found the local IPMS chapter. The magazine, the forums, and the IPMS chapter together make this "new" hobby a very rewarding experience. Without the support I get here and with the local chapter, I would have given up almost as soon as I started. Altogether, this makes retirement worthwhile.

I've known about FSM and their forums for some time, just never "bothered". When a Google search lead me to a forum thread, I decided it was time to re-subscribe to the magazine and actually create an account this time. So I guess you could say it was a combination of the magazine and Google.

In 1998-99 I was living alone in a very rural area and looking for something to do with my free time. Having built models quite actively earlier in my life, I found a hobby shop and bought some models. I just sort of dabbled until 2002-2003 when I found out a co-worker also built models. I was looking for something specific (don't recall what) and He mentioned that there were some model websites good for getting information. This was one of those he knew of. He wasn't really a computer guy so purely a lurker, but I had questions so I signed up here and over at Scale Auto sometime between 2003 and 2005.

I lost my log in info a couple years ago and during the reset my post count and join date got reset, I've actually been here off and on 12+ years.

I actually wasn't that familiar with the magazine until after joining the forums.

Bish

I have been subcribing to the Mag since the early 90's, so i would guess i came to the site through seeing it in the magazine. 

Posted about the Ford Tri Motor I started building last winter on a car forum.  Couple members there were also modelers and posted pics of their work.

Don't know if that brouht me straight here, but I'm sure once I started finding branches leading to various forum I came here.