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
