Well, my name is Kelly Zak, and I am from Victoria, B.C. Canada. I have been doing military modelling now for about a year and a half. My main modelling discipline is racing cars, the European touring car types and the Japanese Touring car types. I was getting into a rut building cars all of the time, so I decided to give a tank a try. It was Tamiya's old Panther kit, and I eventually decided to make it into a little diorama. Now, I'm pretty much hooked on military building, I think I have found my niche, I love doing dioramas, because you get to tell a story with what you create. I am not a rivet counter, and I hate it when people ram it down your throat that your wheels on your tank had 18 bolts on it instead of 24 for that particular model of vehicle that the factory produced. It just bugs me to death. I believe and appreciate constructive critisism, but when some one tells you how your model is all wrong because of this or that, I politely tell them where to go. This is a hobby, and it's meant to be fun and relaxing. I'm not a fan too much of Photo Etch parts, especially when the kit supplied pieces will do. Money just goes out the door by doing that. I scratchbuild alot of my own materials, like rubble, ammo and shell boxes, dio pieces, etc. It saves money and therefore more can be spent on kits! I am a avid hockey fan, I've been a Calgary Flames fan since the old Atlanta Flames days, although I was pretty small then, and don't really remember that, but my parents say I loved the logo. When I'm not building, I'm usually reading/watching WWII history, and jamming on my PS2 (Medal of Honor series mostly)
