4005 gets the shunt!

[Highlander]

The Rime of the Ancient Bass Player, doomed to forever wander the face of the Earth, carrying round a WWII aircraft silhouette book...

It's de rigueur to be multidimensional here, Paul, but memories are long and thankfully friendly...

Like Scott's model stash, mine is full of projects unfinished or stored for rainy days, and a weakness for the delta-wing format and sci-fi, but the most detailed modeller here is probably Mark/TBird whose eye for it is something to behold...

[Pilgrim]

I think Mark studied under Ray Harryhausen. 

[Highlander]

Nah... Harryhausen's work is clunky by comparison... Mark's work is more like the rolling-stock equivalent of an Old Master...

[Dave W]

Paul is being modest. He's not just a modeler, he's the retired longtime editor of FineScale Modeler magazine.

[Pilgrim]

Paul is being modest. He's not just a modeler, he's the retired longtime editor of FineScale Modeler magazine.

"I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

[Paul Boyer]

Paul is being modest. He's not just a modeler, he's the retired longtime editor of FineScale Modeler magazine.

Aw, shucks, Dave. You're too kind.

Don't want to go comparing stacks of stash, but when you consider these are unbuilt, they look more like indictments of excess:

[Paul Boyer]

And when I actually build them, they end up looking like this:

[Pilgrim]

            

[Highlander]

AAAAARRRRRGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

RINGER.....!!!!!!!!!!

 

(there must be a Hellcat on those shelves, somewhere...!)

Paul... the F100... engine revealing kit...?

[Paul Boyer]

AAAAARRRRRGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

RINGER.....!!!!!!!!!!

 

(there must be a Hellcat on those shelves, somewhere...!)

Paul... the F100... engine revealing kit...?

Nah! I build 1/72 scale and mostly out of the box. Once in a while I do mods, but the hobby/art is about finishes for me.

[Pilgrim]

Nah! I build 1/72 scale and mostly out of the box. Once in a while I do mods, but the hobby/art is about finishes for me.

Oh, you and Uwe are going to have a NICE discussion!!

[Paul Boyer]

OK. If only I knew who Uwe is. These login names don't help much.

[Pilgrim]

OK. If only I knew who Uwe is. These login names don't help much.

Don't worry. Illumination will come to you. Check any of the Gibson threads and it will come to you faster.  He "never collects for fins."  In light of that, I found "the hobby/art is about finishes for me" to be an interesting contrast.  Although basses vs. models may confound the discussion. 

But my mind wanders freely.  I think I saw it meandering off into the middle distance this morning.

Nice to have you here, Paul!  LOVELY work you do!!!

[Paul Boyer]

No, sorry, I don't check in on the boards for other brands. Perhaps if someone could just tell me his name and why we would want to converse? Is he a modeler as well? Info, please.

[Highlander]

Uwe is Uwe, quite likes Gibsons, but I don't think he builds kits... He's also German but he doesn't hold that against me, even though they lost the last two... Oh yes, he's a specialist lawyer, but we forgive him...

Never been specialised in one scale and have only returned to building in the last five years... largest1/72 kits sitting in stores at present is the AMT XB70 and Airfix Concorde, but they will stay boxed until relocation at some point...
Presently stalled kits are a 1/100 Vickers Viscount (I have a real window, but that's another story), a 1/48 Eurofighter, a 1" 2001 Orion, and a 1/16 Chindit Bren Gunner (dad was one).