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Offline Bolman

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Hello from Indiana
« on: October 10, 2013, 03:03:15 PM »
Hello,

Some of you may know me from another site or two. Some may not. In short, I work in 1/72 scale and build from kits and scratch. The twist? I build my planes to be used as game pieces for a table top miniatures game. 

My background in modeling:

I started at the age of 10 and have been model building for the past 40 years. My kit subjects varied in the early years and so did the scales being from as large as 1/24th to as small as 1/2400th. Most of my modeling time was spent at the local model railroad club building structures and hand-laying track. (That involves wood ties, rail, and tiny spikes)

I gave up on model railroad modeling due to the expense of the hobby and turned to building WW1 AC to support my other past time. War gaming.

Since then, I have built around 65 planes in the roughly 8 years since I stopped railroad modeling. I have only been on the forums since April of last year if I remember correctly.

Hope to be around much longer.

John
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Offline Des

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Re: Hello from Indiana
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2013, 03:33:33 PM »
Hello John and welcome to the forum, so glad to see you here. We have quite a few 1:72 scale builders on the forum so you will fit in very well, too small a scale for me but I am in awe of what the small scale builders can produce, looking forward to seeing some of your work.

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Offline Ernie

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Re: Hello from Indiana
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2013, 09:33:40 PM »
Welcome to the forums, John!  I admire you fellows who model in the  teeny scale.
I can barely see it much less work on it. ;)  As you have likely seen, there are many
expert modellers (not me! ;D) in all scales full of helpful information.  A friendlier bunch
has not been found.

Cheers,
Ernie :)
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Offline Adam

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Re: Hello from Indiana
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2013, 11:23:28 PM »
Welcome to the forum.
Until now I only also built a 1:72 scale model.
Now slowly I'm starting to build larger models in 1:32 scale, but in the store I have many of these small models that I'm going to build.

Adam.
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Offline LindsayT

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Re: Hello from Indiana
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2013, 12:08:44 AM »
Welcome to the forum, John. I've heard of war gaming, but don't know anything about it. It'll be interesting to see what you produce. I think there's some new 1:144 WWI models out there now if that's the kind of scale you're talking about.

Enjoy your time here,

Lindsay
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Offline IanB

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Re: Hello from Indiana
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2013, 12:10:35 AM »
Hi John, good to see you here!
Ian
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Offline coyotemagic

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Re: Hello from Indiana
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2013, 01:21:00 AM »
Hey, John!  Great to see you over here.  I know you'll enjoy it.  Lot's of very talented and helpful folks, all eager to see your work.
Cheers,
Bud
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Re: Hello from Indiana
« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2013, 02:57:41 AM »
Thank you for the warm welcome. For those of you who do not know me or my work, here is a sample of my scratch built F.E.2b:



This build was done from a 3 view drawing I found and at the time, I did not have all of the resources available to me now so there are some things I did wrong for it to be a true representation of a true Fee. Since the intent was for it to be used as a game piece, it serves well as is.

John
« Last Edit: June 12, 2014, 12:00:58 PM by Bolman »
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Offline Ernie

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Re: Hello from Indiana
« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2013, 08:23:36 AM »
That's an amazing model, John!  Beautiful job!

Cheers,
Ernie :)
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Re: Hello from Indiana
« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2013, 08:33:10 AM »
That's a really gorgeous Fee, John!  Thanks for posting.
Cheers,
Bud
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Re: Hello from Indiana
« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2013, 11:49:18 AM »
Hi John.

Glad that you've joined us.

I'm a 1/72 model builder too but my experince with scratch it's none though... besides scratching adds and fixing some problems in models.

Very nice Fee you have there. Congrats.

Cheers
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Offline Bolman

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Re: Hello from Indiana
« Reply #11 on: October 14, 2013, 01:56:50 PM »
Thank you for your kind remarks.

Zabu, that's how it always starts. Make a part of fix something and next thing you know your building the whole thing from scratch.

:)

John
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Offline pepperman42

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Re: Hello from Indiana
« Reply #12 on: December 13, 2013, 05:55:42 AM »
Missed your intro - welcome to the forum John

Steve
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Offline Whiteknuckles

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Re: Hello from Indiana
« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2013, 09:03:16 PM »
A very belated hello and welcome to you John :)

Andrew
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Re: Hello from Indiana
« Reply #14 on: May 02, 2014, 10:51:09 AM »
A very belated reply... Thanks!!
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