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Getting to know one another => Your Introduction => Topic started by: Bluesfan on April 28, 2012, 02:10:43 AM
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Hello there, I'm hoping to learn and be inspired by this forum, having dipped my toes already in 'the other one'. Hopefully the focus on modelling here will reap benefits from what seems to have become a golden age for our hobby.
My own return to the hobby was a spinoff from making a couple of nativity stables for friends, and then staring at a dusty half empty display cabinet containing the few survivors of modelling times past (there's an Airfix Hannover Cl.IIIa which I'm fairly sure is forty+ years old). I always loved biplanes, but my eyes were opened to what has become available these days when I picked up a Toko kit of one of my favourites, the SSW D.IV. To me the fine details were a world away from the few WWI kits that used to be sold. I love all the product that Roden et al have put out, though most of what I've bought since has yet to be built. And if I need another motive, well I'm trying to encourage a young nephew into doing creative things with his hands and not spend so much time on his XBox :)
And so I've come here! I'm truly staggered by the skills on show, not least by the esteemed forum owner on his ww1aircraftmodels site, and if I can emulate any of them in the slightest way, I'll be very pleased.
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Welcome aboard, Bluesfan. I'm one of those, too, by the way. I look forward seeing your work on these pages.
Cheers,
Bud
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Bluesfan,
Welcome aboard my old friend.Glad you dropped by and joined us here.I'm looking forward to seeing your projects posted here inthe near future.
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette
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Hello Bluesfan
This is the place to learn
Steve
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Hello and welcome Bluesfan, good to hear your trying to get your nephew involved ;)
Andrew
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Welcome bluesfan!
RAGIII
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Hi bluesfan, welcome to the forum.
Cheers
Pete
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Welcome aboard Bluesfan!
Always good to have another NHL fan along for the ride, even if the St. Louis Blues aren't my favourite team. ;D ;D
Cheers,
Chris
P.S. Oh well, what else would you expect from a hockey fan hailing from the Great White North.
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Welcome aboard :)
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Hello Bluesfan and welcome to the forum, I'm sorry I'm a bit late responding to your introduction but it slipped right past me. I look forward to your participation with the forum and all the members.
Des.
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Welcome Bluesfan,
Just sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride. There's a lot happening here......!
Cheers,
Lance
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Greetings and welcome Bluesfan, I just joined yesterday. Looks like it's gonna be a fun ride eh?
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Hi, Bluesfan,
Glad to have you with us. I'm confident that you will pick up much useful information here!
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Many thanks for all the welcomes - not that I should be surprised, I've realised with great pleasure there's a huge amount of help and moral support available in these parts. Blues... as it happens, I've just attended an excellent Erja Lyytinen gig (Finnish guitarist); but I must admit I was also thinking of the variety of hockey played on ice, and the particular Blues I follow are compatriots of Erja.
I'm glad to report that I've also just visited young Adrian and he still seems exceedingly pleased with his SPAD (Roden's 1/32 S.VII in Guynemer's colours). He's still tentative about getting his hands dirty, but he's showing a genuine liking for the history. I also gave him a folder I put together about pilots and planes, listing aces and also containing the first pilot page, about Guynemer of course. I fully realise this 'project' is as much for my benefit as his; but my mission is to complete a list of ten builds of planes of various great or interesting pilots. One not technically an ace: Garros, but he happens to be a hero of mine. I haven't told Adrian what's coming next, namely Jacob's Dr.I. And I'm already a little intimidated by pictures of a fantastic build of this plane posted elsewhere by Prezmol I think.
Yes, looking forward to the action here in this lively and friendly forum :)