Greetings all, my name is Scott and I’m based out of Midvale Utah, USA. I’m a member of the World War I Modeling Page… I guess a former member as the site still seems to exist but the forum has been shut down? I’ve seen quite a few names I recognize from that site here so think I’ve probably arrived at a good place.
I started modeling at around the age of 6 or 7, inspired by my father who also enjoyed the hobby. He was retired USAAF/USAF but had more of an affinity for WWI aircraft (probably from the films he grew up with… Wings, Dawn Patrol, Hells Angles, etc.). In fact, when I was born my father was on base at “beer call” and upon arriving at the base hospital informed the staff that I was to be named Manfred. More level and sober heads prevailed (Thanks Mom!) and that didn’t happen.
At the time, the Revell 1/72 First World War kits were most prevalent but I did come across kits from Airfix from time to time (also Aurora when I ventured briefly into 1/48). I enjoyed the Revell “Aces” kits which were the 3 in 1 boxing’s. I built those kits many times over and eventually just started to lose interest at building the same aircraft.
In the 80’s through the early 90’s I was fanatically interested in Formula 1 and started building the 1/20 scale kits, mostly from Tamiya. These were excellent kits and I really enjoyed building them. One day in the late nineties I was at my local hobby store and I came across a 1/72 Toko kit of the Pfalz D.XII. This was nothing short of a revelation and ignited my interest again in WWI aircraft and I haven’t looked back since (however, I’ve still got some F1 kits that I would like to finish).
I’m looking forward to following posted projects and the general knowledge from others on this site. I’ve got a lot of existing ground to cover looking around the site so that will also keep me busy for a while. I don’t know how active I’ll be at posting at this time, when I retired I took on a house upgrade project of painting the interior, new switches/outlets, blinds, etc. I’ve completed it except for the room where I do my assembly… not only is it a mess in there with my modeling paraphernalia but it became the catch all for everything that I moved out of the other rooms and never returned. It’s become a project within a project.
Thanks for reading…
