MojaveRacer104 Posted August 17, 2006 Posted August 17, 2006 Hi kids, Just joined up for the duration...oh, wrong speech...uhhh I'm 50 years old. Married 24 years with a 12 year old son. I've been building models since 1960, when I built a 59 Corvette kit. I think it was Revell. There are still a couple of fragments of it floating around my parts boxes. Last November, I went to a model club meeting (IAAPM) at the shop where I bought that 1st kit, AutoBooks in Burbank. I grew up around car racing, road racing in particular, but also hot rods and dry lakes and Midgets and... I raced motorcycles in the desert and raced a buggy off road. I won a championship with that. I have been a race car shop owner and fabricator doing cars from Trans Am champions to museum restorations of Sprint cars and Midgets, to Baja 1000 winning off road racers, to hot rods, to... In the 1980s, seeing a magazine article by Jairus Watson featuring his amazing Mustang convertible with incredible working features helped draw me back into building models. I am currently a member of several model related forums and groups, including: GPMA (gpma@yahoogroups.com), DRM (Desert_Racing_Modelers@yahoogroups.com), MaD (modelsanddioramas@yahoogroups.com), Competition Plastic (CompetitionPlastic@yahoogroups.com), Open Wheel Models (open-wheel-models@yahoogroups.com), Model Car List (modelcarlist@yahoogroups.com) and more.
Gregg Posted August 17, 2006 Posted August 17, 2006 Welcome, Richard! Sounds like you have done stuff that most of us only dream of! Hope you enjoy the board. Maybe we can pick your brain and get some ideas and insight on some 1:1 stuff.
Jairus Posted August 17, 2006 Posted August 17, 2006 Oh! So it's my fault then? :wink: (Welcome to MCM forums Richard)
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