Hello from East Tennessee

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My first model was a Sherman that I mangled on Christmas Break ~40 years ago.
The next one I remember for sure was the monogram P-61 I mangled on another Christmas break ~35 years ago.

Then, after visiting the Air Force museum with my son, I rebuilt that kit with him about 10 years ago and loved it. He wasn’t too keen, but I was hooked.

I build a wide variety of stuff. Really whatever strikes me as interesting.

My recent builds include

  • 1/48 Komastu Bulldozer (Tamiya)
  • Crayfish (Fujimi)
  • 1/20 Melusine (Wave)
  • Speederbike (AMT).

Currently active on my bench are

  • 1/72 Shinden (Hasegawa),
  • 1/35 Grosser Hund (Artpla),
  • 1/72 Destroid Spartan (Imai),
  • 1/20 SAFS Fireball SG (Wave).
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Welcome to FSM, I am in Western North Carolina,just over the mountains

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Welcome. I have relatives in Morristown. Eastern Tennessee is such a beautiful part of the country.

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Welcome to FSM! I love eastern Tennessee. Beautiful country and great people!

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Welcome to the forum. You’ve got quite a bit of active builds on your bench. I can only do one at a time. Jump on in and start posting you’re completed builds, and in process. Looking forward to seeing them.

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Thanks!
I sincerely get nearly all my modeling joy from the project itself. I don’t really care much if I never finish a project. This may be related to my ADHD.

I am happy to have multitudes of works-in-progress. Shelf queens are just models waiting for me to be ready to work on them again.

I’ve some finished builds I want to post as soon as I get decent pics.

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Welcome to the forum Raphael! I like your build list! Can you show us your crayfish? That is such an amazing kit that gets no airplay! And you build MaK too! :grinning:

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Welcome! Look forward to seeing your builds.

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Yeah these Fujimi kits are great. The crayfish was amazing to build. I’ve also done the Mantis and one of the beetles.
I’ll share pics very soon,

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I think the crayfish was their best kit so far. A friend who is quite good at painting up animals did this one:

I hope Fujimi continues with this series and does something really offbeat and cool, like an Amazon giant centipede. Or a big cockroach! :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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And you did one of the Beetles? Which one? Paul, George, John, or Ringo?

Okay, I will settle down now. :rofl: I’m just jazzed you are here.

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Man that looks awesome. I want to drop it in a pot of boiling water :rofl:

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That crayfish looks fantastic! I had no idea that Fujimi made these types of kits.

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Welcome to the forum, Raphael! You have a nice selection of subjects queued up-the MaK kits really catch my eye. I look forward to seeing your finished builds!

Best regards,
Brad

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Welcome along! When you mentioned ‘Crayfish’ I thought it might be some kind of spaceship (or MaK which I’m not overly familiar with) rather than, y’know, an actual crayfish model! But then that is exactly what I scroll down and see. Nice to see off beat and different subjects like that.

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They are great kits.
Like many Bandai kits, they are designed such that a young or beginning modeller can produce a good model without much extra work: molded in color, minimal sprue gates, largely snap fit.

I think any of them would make a good palette cleanser.

The only downside is that I’ve only found them on HLJ or other Japanese sellers.

I built it in my lap during visit to my daughter. It was one of the most enjoyable builds I’ve done.

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Welcome to the forum!

I’ve been enjoying the completed builds that you’ve posted and look forward to seeing more.

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Welcome to the forums. I look forward to seeing some of your builds.