A few months ago I rekindled my passion for modelling after 25 odd years (sound familiar?). I decided to concentrate on 1/48 aircraft and have been enjoying it greatly.
Last night I went to the LHS to look at all the shiny plastic and I came away not with an aircraft, but with a Tamiya 1/35 M2A2!!! Then, when I got home, I went out to my shed and found the big cardboard box that has not seen the light of day for 15 odd years and opened it.
There inside was my Tamiya Sherman, Churchill, Abrams, Tiger and about 7 or 8 others that I lovingly built all those years ago. But what a mess! The ravages of time has taken its toll - bits and pieces everywhere. The bottom of that big cardboard box was strewn with wheels and arms and legs and panels of varying shapes, sizes and colours. Not a pretty sight.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I am in the process of cleaning and restoring my armor so that, once again, it can take its rightful place along side my other models. I will post a few photo’s of the restoration work as I go along if you are interested.
My question is…am I coming over to the ‘dark side’? Is it armor that I really crave again and not aircraft.
Someone please help me…I am having an identity crisis and need to fully reconnect with my inner self [^]
And another ones will is surcomeing to the true form of armor. Feel the armor let it flow through you consume you give in to your 120mm …OOOOOPPPS sorry I was getting into the whole darkside thing hehehe
Bob,
Join with us and together we can rule the galaxy. The other modelers know this to be true!!! [oX)] Welcome back and enjoy all the changes that have happened to this hobby.
Scream as much and as loud as you can[}:)]!! Resistance is futile[}:)]!! Nobody can resist the vortex drawing force of the darkside[:D]. Sooner or later, your skin will turn desert yellow with strips of red brown and dark green, and your eyes will turn green into olive drab. You won’t hear the high pitch noise of jet engines in your dreams, replaceing that will be the vibration sound of diseal or gasoline engine. Your navel blue & grey paints all dry up soon. Worse, you will soon start to like mud, dust, oil and dirt[:O].
Well, on the bright side, you will learn Donald Sunderland in US Army tank uniform is The Good, Robert Shaw in SS tank uniform is The Bad and Tom Cruise in a F-14 jet uniform is The Idiot[:D]
You have heard the call of the Empire and answered… As anyone strong in the “Darkside” would… [}:)] And here you thought you could fight it[:D][:D][:D]
Thanks for all the encouraging comments everyone…what can I say? Darth calls me from within! I am destined to become one of you…it is in my bloodline. But can I still talk to the guys over in the Aircraft forum?