GRRR.... Lancaster cheap model makes me so mad!!!

Hi Lawrence
Thanks for the compliment about my offer of a kit. Problem is that I have made the trek up into the attic twice now and still have not hit the right cardboard box that has the Revell Lancaster. I keep finding other stashes of kits that i bring down for a closer look and I get sidetracked. I want to tell you that it is some hot up there. I may be in Canada, but I'm in the most southern town in Canada and I have to go north to go to the States (Detroit).
BTW - Greg and I have been e-mailing direct too. THAT is what this forum is for. I have been on HyperScale for years and have made some very good friends that I have never met face to face. As a matter of fact, I just got off the phone with a chap from Calgary. Luckily, there have been a handful that I have met too. Thanks for having this forum. I check it all day.
The only question that I have is why is it that hardly anyone uses their real name. Why is that so in vogue on this site?
Cheers
Bob S.

Bob~

Glad you're enjoying the forum. The Internet has its problems, but it *is* a great way to connect people with common interests who would never meet each other in the course of their everyday duties.

Those trips to the kit stash can be dangerous. You start having "Oh, I gotta get going on that one" and "Wow, I didn't know I had that" and "What did I buy *that* for?" thoughts, and next thing you know all your free time for the next 18 years is booked, assuming you can get by on 3 hours of sleep a night.

Maybe people use handles because they're worried about identify theft.....or they're easier to remember than their real names I have to use my real name 'cuz I work here, but out on my own on the Internet, I use my Yahoo mail ID, which I picked as a joke because all the variations on my real name were taken. Just temporary, mind you, until I could think of something better. Of course, that was six years ago...

Hi Bob and Lawrence, got to agree with you Bob, that these sites are a great way of making friends with like minded people who will do anything within reason to help each other and sometimes will go "the extra nine yards" so to speak just to help a fellow modeler out. i have been contacted by a few people who were after copies of articles from SMI of which i bought a not inconsiderable collection of (from issue one to issue 340 inclusive) i have so far posted two sets off to the States and have two more in my car to post tomorrow. its the helping of other people that i find rewarding i haven't asked for postage for these articles although i did sugest to a couple of people that we swap the price of postage for some swedish a/f decals but have changed my mind on that score anyway as it will probably cost the people who wanted the info as much as it cost me for postage and it didn't seem fair to me to expect people to swap for photocopies that i did at work and didn't cost me anything. anyway thanks again to you Bob for the Lanc and to youand your team Lawrence for an exellent site....CHEERS....Greg