Hello everyone.
I started modeling airplanes and cars in the late 70’s thru mid-90’swith a little sci fi in the mix. In all I had around 400 models. Then life happened and circumstances forced me to trash my whole collection of planes and cars. It was a very dark period. Moved on to big city. Took me 17 years to get back at it. Not having too much space, I started to re-build my car collection in 1/25th and 24th scale. Cars are easy to display together since they are roughly the same size, unlike planes. Since 2014, I have built about 250 models, and I have about 100 to go before I call my collection complete (if there is such a thing). In the end, I was able to recover most of the cars I had but some models are either no longer produced or very rare, therefore too expensive. I used to have a lot of jo-han models, some that I paid 5.00$ at a five and dime store back in the 70’s, if only I knew then. (Sigh)
I like to build subjects that I feel connected to. Whether it’s from memories of my youth or cars that I owned or simply that I like the lines and styling. I grew up in the 60’s and I have fond memories of those days.
My main interests are cars from, but not limited to, late 20’s to late 70’s or any subject that I find interesting. I like also to build small dioramas (to tell a little story) and occasional departure in the sci fi realm. I like the fact that companies are re issuing some of the kits I build earlier in life (I would build cars from time to time as a change of pace). I have followed this forum for 6 years now; I think it’s time I participate too. There are some seriously talented people here and the main reason I looked in these forums was for inspiration and boy; did I find some. Back in the seventies, we did not have instant access to information as we do nowadays. There are really talented people here and some posts inspired me to build the same models so , if you find that one of my models looks like yours, it probably was inspired by it and if I forget to mention it, please feel free to let me know in the comments.
I am an average builder of average skills but there are some builds that I am truly proud of (the duel truck comes to mind). My hands are not as steady as they once were which led to some models being destr…. hum …. Recycled for other purposes. If there is interest, I will post some of my models in different categories. I build trucks, pickups, cars, sci-fi, dioramas, and a lot of beetles (must have been hit by one when I was young).
Thanks everyone for reading this long post, I hope it was not too painful to read since English is not my native language, but I use it at work every day, so I have some practice ?
Greetings from Montreal Canada
Mario T
