Came accross this wonderful site a couple of days ago and seeing it's quality and content, joined right away. I live in Massachusetts, just outside Boston, and go to sea for a living (what you folks in the U.K. call the Merchant Navy). I've been working on tankers as a deck officer for over thirty years.
I started modelling sometime during the late Jurassic Period (yeah, at 54 I'm pretty much a dinosaur) , and have been at it off and on every since. When I was a kid I did mostly WW2 ships and planes. I really liked WW2 armor, but there wasn't much back then. As I got older and the kits improved I got into 1/35 scale and dioramas, which is what I have always liked doing best, athough for a period of years I was doing plank on frame wooden boats.
Most of my dioramas from the 70's and early 80's have long since been trashed, and only my four best remain. I haven't done much since the late 90's, but it didn't stop me from buying mags., How To books, reference books, and becoming more of an arm chair modeller as opposed to actually doing one. Like many of you, I have an EMBARRASSING amount of un-built kits, a couple date from the 60's!
I started a Tamaiya SdKfz 222 a couple of years ago, intending to make a small DAK cameo dio. It now sits forlornly next to my worck bench.
Right now I'm trying to actually finish an Italieri U.S. 155mm Howitzer. I've made pretty good progress, but am getting bogged down in detail. I didn't realize how inaccurate it was.
I hope to soldier on and get it done.Well, that's about it guys.
Rgds
Paul
