A touchy question

Interesting thread.

For myself, I'm a born and raised Canadian of European roots. Both my parents' sides spent some time in Germany; I think my father's side originated there, but my mother's side went there in the 1600s from an unclear Slavic point of origin. There is a family cousin in England working on my mother's side of the genealogy and says Czech, Slovak or Polish origins are the most probable from the information he currently has.

My mother's family went from Germany to Ireland in the 1700s before basically scattering here, there and everywhere. Both sides went to Canada prior to 1900.

So, Canadian with German, Irish and yet to be determined Slavic background.

As for modeling tastes, Its changed over the years and ethnicity has never really played any role in it. For the past 10 years or so post war British Commonwealth and post Socialist eastern air forces have become primary intrests.

I'd like to do more interwar period aircraft, but the pickings are really slim for that unfortunately.

DURR wrote:

Hippy-Ed wrote:  MikeV wrote: I am mainly Dutch/Irish and my first Dutch ancestor came to this country around 1650 sailing from Denmark is memory serves me. Not sure why he was in Denmark though. My ancestors came over from Schoonhoven,Holland( near the city of Gouda) all i can say is that it was gouda of them to come here

tho9900 wrote:

Hippy-Ed wrote: My ancestors came over from Schoonhoven,Holland( near the city of Gouda) in 1644 & 1647 to the New York area. and branched out from there to the adjoining states. I can go back to 1605/10 on "Schoonover" and so far, back to  1480s on one of the inlaws. Ed - genealogy is a cool thing... my dad went back to about 1300 A.D. on my mon's side. (Where I found out every Broussard in the U.S. is at the least a cousin, a father and his 9 sons came over in the very early 1600's from a small village near modern day Normandy) and every Broussard in the US comes from them.  The semi annual Broussard family reunion in Broussard, LA (of course! we founded it) draws about 30,000 people from all over the world including France, Candada, Spain and England!!!!  All of them related...  On his side of the family he has it back to about 364 A.D..   that is the cool part, to know the name of someone living that far back, what they did for a living, and best of all... they are part of you!!  I noticed a lot of them from 1200A.D. back to the start had some really cool titles... "Royal Inscriptor of the King's own words" etc... which in reality meant they were some insignificant village chieftan's secretary

That is very cool Tom.

MikeV wrote:

That is very cool Tom. I bet it is really cool how many Jews can trace their family all the way back to the twelve tribes of Israel and even further back. That would be awesome!

That would be wild... to know someone in your past either knew someone like David or Modes or even WAS one of them!!

Just to add another voice:

I'm a 6'5" (195cm) 270 lb (120 kilo) 42-year-old Caucasoid of English/Irish decent, and a resident of Japan since 1993.

I'm a Virgo, bloodtype B, born in the Year of the Rabbit. In addition to modelling, I enjoy playing drums (professionally, back in the States), bass, and basketball. I've spent plenty of time in the gym, but unfortunately not as much as I'd like to recently. I also regret that I didn't discover rugby when I was younger.

I also love anything science fiction.

I enjoy all genres of modelling, but focus mainly on armor, aircraft, and science fiction subjects.  

43 yr old Black male, born and raised in South Carolina. I like to model aircraft from WWII to present day stuff. I also dabble in other areas of modeling like cars, ships, etc., from time to time. Also like to airbrush with about anything that'll blow air and paint, but Badger's are my favorite. Been associated with the C-130 from age 17 till present. Married to a woman of Black, White, and Cherokee descent, all in about equal parts. I have two kids who embrace their complete heritage.

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I my friends is nothing but a little old Texas fat boy.I was born in England,raised in San Deigo till my 17 year on earth then lived in New Boston,Tx for some 23 years.I also am half Irish and half German.Digger

I don't know where my family came from. I'm a white male, 36, 225lb, build almost exclusively WWII aircraft, US and German with a few others tossed in.

Race has nothing to do with it.

My turn. I'm a youthful looking 42 year-old, non-fat, ever so slightly greying, non-smoking, beer-drinking, tan, contact wearing (blind as a bat), caucasian male. Whew! I'm married with 3 kids, one on his own, another lives with my ex. I'm part German 50%, Austrian 25%, and Romanian 25%. Of course those are rough breakdowns. Both sets of grandparents moved to America in the early 1900's if my facts are straight. Unfortunately, neither of my parents were up to snuff on family geneology.

For those who know me within the forum, I model primarily armor, usually German. Has nothing to do with roots however; I like most of the WW II's main players. Aircraft I actually prefer Japanese planes, but again, I like all combatants.

41 year old WASP here and I'll model anything if it takes my fancy I really don't really care.  Ships, tanks, planes it really doesn't matter from whatever nationality.

I like building Australian stuff (from time to time) purely from a national pride perspective, but overall scale & theme really doesn't matter to me.

Cheers

I'm Dutch, my parents are Dutch, my grandparents are Dutch, my great grandparents....etc.etc.

But that's quite normal in the Netherlands

At least one of my forefathers was  Swiss, because my last name (Grob) isn't Dutch but comes from  Switserland (as far as I know).

I think that my nationality (dutch) and my race (I'm a typical northern european, blond hair, blue eyes, reasonably tall etc.) have no effect on my choise of subjects. I like planes, and I build those planes that I like, special preferences are planes from the interbellum, prototype/experimental/strange aircraft but I do build a lot of other types as wel.

Some good comments on here, so I thought I'd join in.

Despite my location I'm a 52 year old Brit from Leicester.My home, where my wife & kids live is now Lincoln, just up the road from RAF Scampton, home of the Red Arrows. A non smoker since a heart episode two years ago, I know I had British grandparents from London, but further back I suspect the family were German/Belgian Jewish (don't tell the locals here!)

Eighteen years in the RAF as a techie & ten years here with BAE/RSAF I build mostly aircraft models, but for other people. I have a stash of Jaguars/Tornado's/Hawks & even a Vulcan to build. There are also some RAAF models coming up. And I've done South African & Saudi, one of which is in the Riyadh RSAF museum.

Love Sci Fi & would like to build more, Until a few years ago I was building a lot of American custom cars.

Not much hair, finds exercise very boring ( trying to find a way to combine an exercise bike & modelling desk, then sell the plans to IKEA) & on a very low fat diet (olive oil gives a nice shine to camouflage)

Keep them coming, but do check the spelling!

Pete

Here I am in my prime in 88. I'll be 40 in 10days. French Canadian/English and as most of you know, I kitbash for fun these days.

     Eddie

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Really cool thread idea. Puts a different face on all you guys.

Geez, am I too young to be here?

zokissima wrote:

Puts a different face on all you guys.

zokissima wrote:

Geez, am I too young to be here?

Triarius wrote:

zokissima wrote: Puts a different face on all you guys. That's because we don't want to frighten you younguns…  zokissima wrote: Geez, am I too young to be here? Naa, it's obvious you're just an old fart like us who's not ripe yet!! [/qoute] I second dat remark [qoute]One thing to look forward to when you get to the wrong side of 50—you can then razz the younguns!

It is never too late to have a happy childhood! Seriously, one of the things I've noticed about scale modelers—they have not lost touch with that inner child whose eyes are so filled with wonder and delight.

Hippy-Ed wrote:

seeing how some have troubles seeing

Triarius wrote:

Hippy-Ed wrote: seeing how some have troubles seeing Okay, okay, okay… so maybe sometimes its just surprise and astonishment…