Hi all, thought I’d jump in and do a little introduction.
I built anything and everything as a kid in the 70s and 80s (Saturn 5, visible V8, Cylon space ship, Lamborghini countach, B-52 with camo paint hand brushed, just to name a few that come to mind.
I clearly remember my first time sitting at the kitchen with my parents about 1st grade. Models became my goto christmas/birthday gift.
Skip forward to my 30s circa 1990s and I started up again, this time, my first kit was a monogram A-10 that got a second place ribbon in a local contest and I was hooked.
I started my first official stash and many of those kits survive today. I played around for a year or two, built a F-117, F-16 and started the huge 1/48th scale B-1b but my ambition to build it with flaps/slats open exceeded my ability and I boxed it up and put it on the shelf of doom.
Jump forward to Feb 2025 when I got the bug again and went all in. I still had my stash, having moved them in a huge box from garage to garage for 25 years, thinking, maybe one day…
I’ve completed my first kit, monogram OA-4M attached, opting to build one from my stash that I figured, if I screwed it up (and I did) it wouldn’t matter.
I took my first crack at weathering after picking out a reference photo that looked interesting.
Now I’m mostly into Marine Corps aviation (I once thought I was going to be a Marine pilot) in 1/48th scale and I’m lost to completing my second kit (old Monogram AV-8B). Oh and my original stash has about doubled (yep I’m addicted). I now have enough kits to last me probably 5 years of continuous building but no matter how much I tell myself I’m going to stop, I just ordered another rare kit.
If you have made it this far, thank you for reading my bio, it was fun to get it all down in one place.
I’m sure there a bunch of typos as I wrote this all up on my phone, in the middle of the night while taking care of my elderly mother.
Nice to be back!
