Any scale modelers in the Great Rabble?

[Todd Bradshaw]

I built a lot of plastic models when I was young, mostly WWII aircraft and early jet fighters. These days, it's just N-Scale trains running along the shelf tops in my office with two parallel tracks making loops about 53' long, so I can run some fairly long trains.

I worked for a few years as a commercial hot air balloon pilot and doing repairs and inspections on them. At one point I built a model about one tenth size of a Cameron O-Type balloon envelope.

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[CollinMacD]

Funny you should post this at this time. Like most when I was a kid, yes I loved to build plastic AMT cars, Revelle and Monogram Ships, and a few tanks here and there. As I grew into my teens I started to build wooden ship models as I grew up near Gloucester, Mass, and this a big pastime for off season fisherman. So I built several kits, like the Baltimore Clipper, USCG Eagle, Taurus Tug, and few more. All stopped when I joined the Military.

Now that I am retired, i have started once again to build wood ship models, and some plastic PT Boats, but I bought a rather large collection of WWII armor and trucks to build. I JUST started to build the remake of the German manufactured PT109. I built that model in 1963, so I thought I would start my hobby once again building something I did years ago. However this time I got a nice compressor, couple of Air brushes, nice collection of paints, and tools. So I have also purchase a good quantity of wood ships from BlueJacket and others, mainly I have Revenue Cutters, Nantucket Light Ship, Elco PT Boat, Swampscott Dorry, and several other models. I purchased many of the wood tools needed to do both plank on plank and solid hull.

This is the hobby I chose since I retired recently. I find it to be challenging, relaxing, and unlike building these as a kid, I now do research to assure i am painting these correctly.

Several years ago I did a few metal figures, mainly a Zouave Civil War soldier, came out great and was all hand painted... did this when i was on a isolated duty station....needed something to pass the time and it worked.

So YES I love doing these kits.