A touchy question

I'm a 40 y/o w/m who's married. I have a 13 y/o son from my first marriage and with my current wife, I have 10 grandchildren. Yes, you read it right, 10 grandchildren. I married a woman older than me. So I guess I came into a ready made family. I enjoy building planes Cold War, Modern, and WW1. I also enjoy building drag racing cars. Just recently, i.e. 1-2 months ago, I became interested in armor. I'm roughy 99% done with Tamiya's 1/35 Panther Tank and about 50% done with Tamiya's Hanamog 251/1. I also have a "stash" of 300+ kits untouched - which doesn't really make my wife too happy. But I enjoy this hobby with golf running a distant second. I also am baulding, overweight, and out of shape.

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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Im a 24 year old white-mexican male, and thats about all I know. I build mostly WW2 aircraft

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.  

?? Anything Made of Styrene ??

Okay, I'll fess up. I'm 55, look older. Mostly northern European ethnic—predominantly Polish, German, and Bohemian, the rest being mongrel including a trace of Cherokee. I lift weights for strength, ride bicycles for endurance. I can't help getting older, but I'll be ∂嵘∂ if I'll let myself get fat.

Color? We all bleed red. That's all that matters.


Of course, some of us bleed solvent cement or superglue, but we're not supposed to talk about that…

Wulf, you're right, there's definately a great bunch of guys here (& even a few women too) I guess it's kinda nice to know who all we're dealing with in here. We have  a common interest... building plastic "thingies" & I know some of us (who shall remain nameless...) suffer from the incurable AMS 

I guess I'll chime in too.....

I'm a 37 yr old white male who lives in the south (Katrina Alley). However, I'm not fat. I'm a powerlifter as well. I almost consider that a hobby as well. Been doing it far longer than modeling, sorry to say.
My lineage is REALLY German from both sides. Married with 3 great kids.

I'm glad someone went out on a limb to post this thread. Been kinda wondering who we all are talking to. Seems like a great bunch of guys on here.

I'm a 32 year old white male.  5'8" tall, brown hair, blue eyes.  Ancestry is Scottish, Irish, English and French.  I'm your basic American mutt. :)

I'm a hot 19 year old nurse.....

Wait, wrong forum.

LOL

39 year old fat white guy. 1 wife. 2 kids.

Rockingham was my track. Less than an hour away. Went to race school there twice. Shame it shut down. I favor Darlington now.

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!!

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.

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!

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

That's a cheesy thing to say! Pass the crackers, please…

Don,
I hear ya on that. I know that is like the Hatfields & the Macoys but, I don't think I'll ever get to Scotland anytime soon....
Heck, if ya stop & think about it, I'm sure most of us had ancestors fightin' one another during the civil War here in the US...

Ed,
Telling everyone you may be related to Billy Bruce may not get you into too many doors in Scotland, depending where in Scotland you tell it. . .sort of like telling a MacDonald your a Campbell in the highlands!
Geneology is a closet full of skeletons, and we find some things our elders never wanted others to know. I can find relatives on both sides of the '45. Which means it either divided loyalties or they were playing both sides against the middle!

Don

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.

tho9900, Genealogy is an interesting subject. I've been doing mine for the past 9-10 yrs. now. It is fascinating to learn who our ancesors are & what they did,etc. My father's side has been pretty easy going but, my mother's side is the hard part. I can only go back to 1800 NY!! Her family originated on Fair Isle just north of Scotland. I heard we're possibly related to William the Bruce (?)

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

It was wasn't it?!  4 brothers came over (I don't recall the names) but, the original spelling of our last name is: Van Schoonhoven.

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

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

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) 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.

I was born in NY (Long Island) but both my parents come from India. My interests lay mainly in Modern (mostly russian)/ WWII AFV's (any country in the war) and Modern/ (mainly russian) and WWII AC (any country) and any ships (mostly russian). However, my background does affect my modelling interests, because I always model Indian Air Force whenever I can.

I'm about half cajun, my mother's family were exhiled to Canada in the 1600's, then exhiled from there to Louisiana I believe in the late 1700's to early 1800's.  My dad's family came to Massachusets in the late 1600's from England, eventually finding themselves in TX.  I model mostly WWII USN aircraft with the occasional 'off the wall' subject that might catch my fancy.  I think background and location vs. race makes up a lot of what we model, at least for me. 

My great uncle was a SBD rear gunner in WWII and when I got old enough to ask questions, we talked a lot about it.  Hence my thing for Naval aircraft (not to mention me spending 10 yrs in the Navy myself, and my dad who was a Marine then going on to the Navy until retirement, modeling the same genre things for me when I was young.)

 

I am mainly Dutch/Irish and my first Dutch ancestor came to this country around 1650 sailing from Denmark if memory serves me.
Not sure why he was in Denmark though.

That branch of my family was the Burlesons. Heres an interesting item about them. When they moved to Tennessee, they were attacked by indians at a place called Lynch River. One of the people that was with them at this time was Daniel Boone, who is described as a friend of the family. He helped fight off the indians, but not before one of the Burleson men was killed and one of the Burleson women was scalped. I've really got to find my geneology stuff.

roadkill_275 wrote:

Triarius wrote:  berny13 wrote: …my for fathers settling in what is now North Carolina back around 1680. That's about when my ancestors (the European ones) came over from Ireland, Scotland, and England. They wound up in NC, too. Mine and yours probably knew each other! I can add mine to that as well. A group of my ancestors moved here in the time frame of 1670 - 1680 from Wales and settled in parts of Tennessee and North Carolina. I would have to dig out my notes though to pin down the area. Huh, wouldn't it be funny if we were related?

I could try to find out. Buried somewhere in the attic I have a geneology that goes back to the first colonists, and even to Europe for some of my ancestors. If you send me your last name and your mother's maiden name I can try to look it up, if you want.

As some financial institutions use your mother's maiden name as an identifier, I'd suggest snail mail as a safer alternative to e-mail, if you want me to try.

Stranger things have happened, but it would be a funny circumstance if we were long lost cousins.

Triarius wrote:

berny13 wrote: …my for fathers settling in what is now North Carolina back around 1680. That's about when my ancestors (the European ones) came over from Ireland, Scotland, and England. They wound up in NC, too. Mine and yours probably knew each other!

I can add mine to that as well. A group of my ancestors moved here in the time frame of 1670 - 1680 from Wales and settled in parts of Tennessee and North Carolina. I would have to dig out my notes though to pin down the area. Huh, wouldn't it be funny if we were related?

I am of Scottish and Irish decent who's family "came over", well after WWI, settled in Canada working for the railroad then moved "over the bridge" to Detroit. Almost deported at the beginning of WWII for failure to register. But as Canada was an ally, and the job was critical to the economy they were allowed to stay after the paper work was completed.
I am retired from the US Coast Guard (aviation) with a full head of hair that is naturally frosted due to my wife and three sons.
I do not smoke, and see Bruce Willis when I look in the mirror. . .no one else does, but I figure that is their problem, or my bifocals need a new presciption.
I like to think of myself as a Bob Vilia or Norm Avram with tools and wood working, but reality tells me I'm more like Tim Taylor.
( when modeling I see myself as Shep Paine but that too is only fantasy), but I have a good time and after partaking in the hobby for over 40, yes Four Ohh, years I can proudly say I have a shelf half full.
I try not to take anything too seriously, except what my doctor tells me so I can live longer than my active duty time and collect as much money as I can from my retirement.

Don

berny13 wrote:

…my for fathers settling in what is now North Carolina back around 1680.

That's about when my ancestors (the European ones) came over from Ireland, Scotland, and England. They wound up in NC, too. Mine and yours probably knew each other!

I am a 63 year old WASP, just getting my hair and weight back.  I am of German decent with my for fathers settling in what is now North Carolina back around 1680.

I build jet fighter aircraft from the Korean war to present (having worked on jet fighters for 26 years in the USAF). 

On my fathers side of the family, someone has fought in every major war, from the French and Indian war to the last Iraq war.   I don't know if you can call us a dedicated bunch or someone that just likes to fight.  

I don't think it's a touchy question as long as we can talk about it like adults.

As for me, born and raised on an Indian reservation in upstate NY, I'm 3/4 Akwesasne Mohawk, 1/4 French. My mother is half French, half Mohawk, my father is full-blooded Mohawk. I speak the language (less than 2500 of us do now), and of course, recognized by the BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) as an official member of the tribal rolls. My family still lives on the reserve, and my grandmother and great-aunt are tribal elders (the Mohawk are a matriarchal society in times of peace). My father moved off the reservation, but lives only a few minutes' drive away.

I've moved to NJ in the early 90s, and joined NJIPMS. Those guys are some of the best friends I've ever had, and they run the full ethnic gamut, Irish, Polish, Israeli, Russian, Czech, African-American, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and some are just plain old mutt Americans. Down to the last man, they're all great people who share a common hobby and interest.

I don't think that ethnicity plays as big a part in the hobby as we think. That being said, I think the hobby is passed down from one generation to another, so if your father was a model builder (or older brother, etc) chances are you probably picked up on the hobby too.

I do know for sure that there's absolutely NO DATA whatsoever on the cultural backgrounds of modelers, median incomes, ethnicity percentages, etc.

I've been dragged through this hobby for 30 years now, and I've never heard of any conflicts within the hobby due to race, ethnicity, etc... I've seen alot of conflicts over whether a paint color was correct, though!!

Jeff