Just signed up and saying hi from Aussie

[Richard Noakes]

The habits of a misspent life:

I'm into Pocher built, or being repaired by me (arrived damaged - sigh), cars - I have 18 or probably 19 different ones, before today's finished, at the last count. they make great dust collectors !! 4 to rebuild or repair.

I have 13 R/C Tamiya and Heng Long tanks - all new as I don't play with them - I like looking at them.

I have the 1/8 James Bond Aston Martin which also arrived damaged (sigh) and have repaired that.

I also collected all of the Franklin Mint 1/12 Pewter cars, with the exception of the Mercedes Sports car - I think there were 6 all together.

I've just bought a 1/12 Franklin Mint Rolls Royce. Sorry if you were the ebay under bidder - that was me - again.

I also collect Autoart, Minichamps, Exoto and similar quality diecast cars boxed in 1/18 and 1/24, before 1950 (the real cars) and Le Mans racing cars up to date and have about 150 of those in glass and wood display cabinets. I collect the limited production numbers - so that, subject to the economy (laugh - joke) they acquire some value and some Franklin Mint 1/24 scale models and some 1/8 early steam vehicles - don't know if Franklin Mint was the manufacturer. I don't collect much now - run out of space in my cabinets and the display cabinet manufacturer went bust a year ago

I built detail scale warships out of paper and card in large scales (1/100 or bigger) for radio control, however, I have been unable to build anything these past  20 years, thanks to the internet - I am retired now and essentially quite lazy.

I have "large collections" (all catalogued) of A4 and A3 page sized plans of warships, submarines, cargo vessels, steam ships, up to roughly 1920, (the rare stuff which is never seen and is locked away in museums now) and racing cars, tanks and AFV's, aircraft and some flying scale and copies of maritime lithographs of ships and warships up to about 1900 when the camera took over. Nothing I would sell, however.

I have a tin box which resembles a black coffin and is too heavy for me to move alone, full of large scale detail plans of warships, including Russian warships up to 1998 - probably around 300 to 500 altogether in 1/200 or 1/100 or bigger scales - I'm happy to sell those - as I don't see myself building anything now - roughly say, the world's warships from about 1200 to 1945.

I collect digital paper kits of ships, tanks, aircraft, cars, racing cars and much else (in large scales) and have lots of those.

I can be a useful resource for anyone wanting background, or plans, or copies of plans from my collections for specific?.

Off topic:

I'm really into computers and software - IBM clones - not Apple and can probably give advice if anyone is having PC issues.

My "big boys toy" is a 1988 Volvo 740 turbo station wagon which I have rebuilt to as new and which my partner can't do the seatbelt up in (she's too big), so I don't take it out much - speed limit here is 110km - just when my Volvo is getting into its stride - still its fun to hit the turbo from the traffic lights and leave all of the new cars behind.

I think I might be a "specific hoarder"

I have Diabetes Type 2 these past 15 years (I'm 70) and a horrific diet now, but the weight is dropping off me and I might avoid injections - so if I can offer advice or support to any of you struggling with this horrid disease, I'm out here - I would not give my worst enemy (if I had one) Diabetes!!

Richard

Edited April 19, 2017 by Richard Noakes
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[Modelbuilder Mark]

Welcome. I look forward to seeing some of your work. 

[Foxer]

     I think I might be a "specific hoarder"

I have Diabetes Type 2 these past 15 years (I'm 70) and a horrific diet now, but the weight is dropping off me and I might avoid injections - so if I can offer advice or support to any of you struggling with this horrid disease, I'm out here - I would not give my worst enemy (if I had one) Diabetes!!

Richard

Welcome to the forum, Richard. There are plenty of hoarders here, and thankfully, many who BUILD them! 

Diabetes isn't fun but it seems no big deal to me with all the improvements made since I've had Type 1 the past 50 years. Only the first self injection with a cannon needle back then took an hour to get in my leg. Now I do 5 or six a day with micro needles. I was well controlled and have lost my taste for sugar, though I'm allowed to do sugar now. I eat pretty much anything I want as long as I account for it with insulin and my blood sugar is at "normal" levels all the time. Could never do that in the past with the old insulins.

Enough of that .. be sure to post pics of some of your stuff!  

[Ramfins59]

Welcome to our plastic playground Richard.  I'm also 70 and I've also got Type 2 Diabetes and have gotten my A1C down to 5.8 which made my doctor very happy.

[D. Battista]

Welcome to the forum Richard...!    There is a fine line between a hoarder and a collector....   Thats what I tell the wife anyway....! 

[DumpyDan]

Welcome aboard Richard

[crazyjim]

Welcome Richard.  January I'll be 70 if I make it that far.

Edited April 22, 2017 by crazyjim