Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2011 12:55:51 GMT
Although I'm new to the Forum, I've attended all the Nationals since they were held at Kenilworth. I remember parading my newborn around as a 1:1 scale model, and he is now 21.
I introduced him (Chris) to modelling around his 3rd birthday, by building a 1/76 telephone box; there were two in a packet and he made the other one alongside me. He took it the the Nats and promptly won the junior Miscellaneous class: it was the only entry but the judges admired and encouraged his enthusiasm.
In his last year as a junior he won the Best in Show with a two-headed dragon -- I have some catching-up to do.
My background? I am now 59, and have lived all my life in the Manchester area. I sit in an office all day and have never had a job or hobby that could be described as exotic or dangerous.
My wife Christine (IPMS family member) uses her hands for various types of needlework, including knitting the coats for nineteen sheep on my prize-winning Wallace & Gromit entry a few years ago.
I came to modelling quite late, as a result of a delayed start in airspotting. I have been a member of the Airliners SIG and I still take an interest in that topic, although my exhibition time is now taken up with Beyond the Box. With age, my sense of humour has become more outrageous, and this SIG rather suits me.
Dislikes: I shy away from military topics. On Remembrance Sunday I stood in silence for two minutes mourning the dead, and looking around the room at all the tables celebrating man's propensity for building killing machines.
Likes: just about anything else, but particularly passenger and freight transport. At the moment everything I do (away from the SIG) seems to be in 1/24.
Best model: the one I'm about to make.
The model that has given me the most grief: the ones I won't live long enough to make.
Whereas I admire the incredible skill displayed at IPMS exhibitions, I still believe that a hobby is to be enjoyed by the participant, and if someone else likes it, so much the better.
I take great pleasure in seeing the smiles on the faces of all the visitors to the Beyond the Box displays.
I hope this explains my strange behaviour.
I introduced him (Chris) to modelling around his 3rd birthday, by building a 1/76 telephone box; there were two in a packet and he made the other one alongside me. He took it the the Nats and promptly won the junior Miscellaneous class: it was the only entry but the judges admired and encouraged his enthusiasm.
In his last year as a junior he won the Best in Show with a two-headed dragon -- I have some catching-up to do.
My background? I am now 59, and have lived all my life in the Manchester area. I sit in an office all day and have never had a job or hobby that could be described as exotic or dangerous.
My wife Christine (IPMS family member) uses her hands for various types of needlework, including knitting the coats for nineteen sheep on my prize-winning Wallace & Gromit entry a few years ago.
I came to modelling quite late, as a result of a delayed start in airspotting. I have been a member of the Airliners SIG and I still take an interest in that topic, although my exhibition time is now taken up with Beyond the Box. With age, my sense of humour has become more outrageous, and this SIG rather suits me.
Dislikes: I shy away from military topics. On Remembrance Sunday I stood in silence for two minutes mourning the dead, and looking around the room at all the tables celebrating man's propensity for building killing machines.
Likes: just about anything else, but particularly passenger and freight transport. At the moment everything I do (away from the SIG) seems to be in 1/24.
Best model: the one I'm about to make.
The model that has given me the most grief: the ones I won't live long enough to make.
Whereas I admire the incredible skill displayed at IPMS exhibitions, I still believe that a hobby is to be enjoyed by the participant, and if someone else likes it, so much the better.
I take great pleasure in seeing the smiles on the faces of all the visitors to the Beyond the Box displays.
I hope this explains my strange behaviour.