I live in Fort Worth, Texas, and am married with four grown kids and one great 6 year old grandson. I started modelling in the 60's when the Revell and Airfix 1/72 scale kits came along and there was suddenly an 'explosion' of decent plastic models. Until then we had to be satisfied with the crude Aurora, Strombecker, etc. aircraft kits. Although the early Revell, Hawk and Renwall armor and missile kits were pretty amazing and are even impressive today when you realize they were made 50 years ago in some cases.
I continued modeling my whole life until now, joined and re-joined IPMS a few times, still have the first issues of Scale Modeler and Fine Scale Modeler magazines, and a big reference library that I've managed to keep intact and add to over the years.
Currently I'm doing 'Braille Scale' armor simply because the kits have reached 1/35 scale detail and quality, are still pretty inexpensive, and can be built faster than their larger counterparts.
I REALLY am impressed with this ARMORAMA site because the coverage of our hobby is astonishingly up to date and detailed given the many specialized areas of interest modelers have developed.
See ya'll around campus,
Ed VanTassel

Ed, welcome aboard the big "A", as we like to call it.
It's great to have one with your years of experience with us. I am sure there are plenty of us here that would love to pick at your brains to share your knowledge.

Do you have pictures of your models that you would like to share with us? We would love to see some.

Hope to see you in the forums.

Howdy Ed

Greetings from Denmark.
Glad you joined us. You're gonna love it here

Hi Ed, Welome to Armorama Hope you enjoy it and have a good time!

Ed -

Welcome to Armorama and I'm sure you'll soon find out soon what a fantastic group of people there is here to share experiences, ideas, techniques, and everything you can think of about this great hobby. Also great to see more of us "older" guys getting back into it. Lived in San Antonio for a few years back in my Air Force days. Also have a grandson who was "helping?" me put decals on my Jagdpanther this last weekend. I'll need to do some research to see if his placement was accurate but that part of the fun of the hobby. Hope to hear (and see?) more from you soon,

Blade48mrd

Greetings Ed..

Welcome to Armorama.. You'll enjoy it more like I did. See ya around too..

Hallo and welcome Grandpa, :-) :-) (just a joke)
you´ll love this site....looking forward to seeing your work
best regards

Ed welcome to the Armorama family. Nice to have you here. We always need someone with experience like you. Hope you enjoy the site.
Greetings

Ed, Welcome to the Armorama family. I hope you enjoy it here and that you stay around and show us some of your creations.

Mary (++)

Welcome to Armorama, Ed , enjoy your stay.

Pete

Welcome aboard Ed!

Bonjour Ed!

Heureux de t'avoir avec nous sur Armorama!

Jean-Luc

hi ed! welcome aboard, i too am an "old school"modeller, starting from the early 70's with airfix kits. i still like to build my childhood faves, but the hobby has come on in leaps and bounds in the last few years, its great to be a modeller!

Welcome to the big A Ed,
You'll Love it

Redleg

Hi Ed, glad to have you here at Armorama. Looking forward to seeing some of your work. Cheers Kevin

i would like to welcome you to armorama ed.....

welcome to armorama! It's never too late to join. I hope you like it here. I liked Forth Worth. I had a good time last time I was there in '04. Hopefully I'll get to visit again in March '06.

Welcome to the big A

Hi Ed
Welcome to the Big A this really is a wonderful site not only for the modling but also the great friends that you make its outstanding.
Cheers Chris

Hello Ed.. and welcome to the big A...

Enjoy..the site as there is tons of content here...

Hello Ed,
nice to have you along, hope you enjoy the site..

dave

Ed,

Welcome aboard! It's great here.

How long have you been in Ft. Worth? I lived there '77-80, and hung out with the local IPMS folks for a bit. Your name seems familiar.