Hi, Paul from Downeast Maine here. I'm 69 and twice retired. Once from the Navy 1969-1990, and completely in 2012 after a career in various forms of maintenance.
As a kid in the Golden Era of Muscle Cars (graduated High School in 1968) I built a lot of 1/24 and 1/32 cars and trucks. As an adult I was into HO scale model railroading for several years. For the last couple of years, I've been building 1/16th farm equipment out of brass and restoring/resto-modding Tonka toys.
I enjoyed the scenery and structures part of model railroading more than actually running trains (one reason I got out of it) and this Winter decided to try my hand at a diorama in 1/64 using the Ertl farm toys I've collected over the years.
I hope it's okay that I joined for the diorama forum rather than any extensive interest in model cars. I've been perusing the diorama section as a guest and I can already see I'm WAY out of my league here. Fantastic stuff folks! I've already stol...uh..."borrowed" a few ideas.
I can post a few pictures of my humble efforts if/when anyone is interested.
