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Getting to know one another => Your Introduction => Topic started by: ww1buff on June 14, 2014, 01:36:58 PM

Title: Hello from the Witch City
Post by: ww1buff on June 14, 2014, 01:36:58 PM

Greetings from Massachusetts!  I am a 64 year old mechanical engineer and have been modeling for about 25 years.  One of the things I enjoy about this hobby is that I never know where it will take me.  I actually started out building wooden rolling stock for O scale model railroading and some RC aircraft.  I remember at the time I said to myself that I had absolutely no interest in building plastic again (I built models for  while as a kid, most of which I blew up with fire crackers...).  Then, of course, I picked up a plastic kit of a box car one day and found that it had much better detail than the kits had when I was younger.  After realizing that I didn't have the room to build an O scale railroad layout (1/4" = 1 foot), I decided to switch to armor modeling mainly because of my interest in WW II history.   All the while, I was reading books and magazines to improve my building skills.  I mixed in a few WW II airplanes with the armor and said to myself that they were a lot more interesting than those old biplanes from WW I and they didn't have all that rigging to deal with.

 Now here I am several years and model genres later building WW I plastic biplanes  and I'm loving it.  As with all the other types of models I've built, I enjoy learning the history of these aircraft: how they worked, how they were used and stories of the guys that flew them.  I love incorporating more detail into them (as long as my eyes hold out) whenever I can and I am blown away by the quantity and quality of all types of models that are available now.   I've built about a half dozen planes and am currently working on the WNW DH 9a "Ninak."

So, I've learned never to say never and to look forward to where ever this hobby will take me.

Happy to be here!

Joe

Title: Re: Hello from the Witch City
Post by: uncletony on June 14, 2014, 01:44:00 PM

Welcome aboard Joe!

Title: Re: Hello from the Witch City
Post by: RAGIII on June 14, 2014, 01:54:26 PM

welcome to the friendliest and most encouraging WW1 forum on the Net! I am looking forward to seeing your work!
RAGIII

Title: Re: Hello from the Witch City
Post by: coyotemagic on June 14, 2014, 01:56:58 PM

Welcome to the forum, Joe!  Great to have you aboard.  Looking forward to that Ninak of yours.
Cheers,
Bud

Title: Re: Hello from the Witch City
Post by: Des on June 14, 2014, 03:58:04 PM

Hello Joe and welcome to the forum, so glad to see you here, I look forward to seeing you post photos of your work soon.

Des.

Title: Re: Hello from the Witch City
Post by: Ernie on June 14, 2014, 07:22:08 PM

Funny how things work out, Joe. ;) :D  Welcome to the fold.  I'm sure
you will enjoy the atmosphere here.  I look forward to seeing how
the Ninak is coming along.  Good to have you aboard.

Cheers,
Ernie :)

Title: Re: Hello from the Witch City
Post by: Nigel Jackson on June 14, 2014, 08:05:32 PM

Hello and welcome to this great forum, Joe. There is so much to help us here, all willingly shared, and it will be great to learn from the sort of techniques you have acquired and refined over your varied experience.

Best wishes
Nigel

Title: Re: Hello from the Witch City
Post by: Alexis on June 14, 2014, 09:58:05 PM

Hi Joe , welcome to the site  :)

Title: Re: Hello from the Witch City
Post by: IanB on June 14, 2014, 10:53:08 PM

Welcome from Hyannis, Joe.
Good to have you here. I'm sure you'll find this a very friendly and helpful place to be.

Ian

Title: Re: Hello from the Witch City
Post by: bobs_buckles on June 15, 2014, 04:46:39 AM

Hello Joe,
 Welcome to the forum.
Enjoy your time with us  ;)

VB

Title: Re: Hello from the Witch City
Post by: pepperman42 on June 16, 2014, 11:10:28 AM

Welcome Joe. Enjoy the site!!

Steve