I just sit here and wonder what type of sleep-aid medication Camo takes at night that gives him the insight and ablility to write such thoughts in the morning? .... HAHAHHAHA ![Laugh [(-D]](/emoticons/icon_smile_newlaugh.gif)
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I always know that you're kidding. You and I are just the same, almost as if we were seperated at birth .... ![Shock [:O]](/emoticons/icon_smile_shock.gif)
, HEY! You wouldn't happen to have half of a medalion on a chain that you wear for reasons unknown to you, or have the numbers "1 of 2" tatooed on your butt? (I have "2 of 2".) ![Big Smile [:D]](/emoticons/icon_smile_big.gif)
As for me and my modeling days ..... I've been building models, mostly WWII aircraft since I was about 7 or 8. The hobby took a nose-dive when I realized that there were women in the world, or better yet when they realized I was here. I picked it back up late in high school b/c I ended up living w/ my grandparents during my senior year and I got to learn a lot about my GF's service in the pacific (I had no idea what he did prior to that). He passed away soon after I moved to college. I worked here and there during school, but 3 years into it, I enlisted in to the Army and modeling ground to a halt. I didn't get back to school or modeling for another 4 years. After graduating and commissioning, Army schools kept me pretty busy, so most modelling was done w/ smaller kits like the German Pak 40, etc. Then the deployments started rolling in. Tried to do some modeling there, but Chip n Dales isn't their thing ... ok, bad joke. Tried modeling while deployed but when you get excited about getting the mold seams off "this month", things go pretty slow and you don't learn much. Honestly, I had never really messed w/ figures, except for maybe a pilot here and there that was locked up in a cockpit. I always thought that models should be build static and for display. For some reason during my last "vacation", I took pictures like no tomorrow. And after coming home and scrolling through them, I realized how much "life" there was to model. I decided to give real figure modeling a shot. (IMO, when you get up to 120mm, then the figure becomes the focus, not the tank or AC that he's standing next to.) Since then, I've probably completed 3-4 figs, was never to happy or impressed w/ them, and honestly the first 1 or 2 got hacked back up and reused somewhere else. "Flash Out" and my 120mm SF figure were really the first two figs that I've been proud of. All in all, I'd say that I've been modeling for about 7-8 years total, w/ about the last 2 years being almost strictly figures.
I'm still at the point where research and learning take up most of my time. Right now, I've been trying to get more "well rounded" again by working on my MH-6 and my HMMWV builds. But, like I said before, I'm just glad that I can share what I've learned thus far .... and that it maybe helps instead of hinders.