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JohnRatzenberger
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Welcome, Martin !!
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Many thanks for the welcome guys.

Rich, my website address is my signature on each of my posts. But I have sent you a pm as well. Always good to chat to someone local :-)
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FAAMAN
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Hello to all from down here in Great Oz ;-) !! Been lurking for some considerable time since I joined last year so I thought I'd better speak up.
Some will know me from other forums where I'm a member using the same FAAMAN handle. :roll:
I've been modelling with Airfix (and others) on and off (with interruptions like girls, joining the RAN & getting married) since I was 4 (care of Mum & Dad + older brother). My first model being a 75cent 1/72 Yak-9D in 1966-67!! There's a Sunderland in there somewhere too. My first ship model being HMS Victorious a couple of years later. I've got a reasonably good record of the models I've built as I was shown at a very early age to scrapbook the boxes/instructions etc that came with the kits. My oldest surviving Airfix Model being a 1/72 Fw 190D from 1969 that has been rebuilt several times (badly see pic :oops: :oops: ).

Like many, I've more "started" projects than finished, a couple of boxes full of broken models (not just Airfix, to be repaired at a later date) so not so many Airfix survivors as I'd like but I think I'm up around the 500's for finished builds, not just for myself but I used to build for others too (although considering my current skills I'd hate to see what I built and handed over back then :roll: :roll: ).

I look forward to sharing my builds (even with my glacial building rate) with you all :)

My oldest surviving model, don't laugh too hard ;-) it was rebuilt last in the late '70s :shock: the original Airfix Fw 190D-9(?),
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Welcome to the forum FAAMAN. :)
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Welcome back !!
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Hey thanks for the welcome :grin:
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Hi Neil :razz:
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FAAMAN
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Thanks Ratch ;-) :grin:
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Hi I have not been on for a long time, life got in the way. Still have not finished anything, so decided to look up this site to see if I can get my model mojo back :-|
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Welcome back, celt, and I hope we can assist with modeling-mojo-finding !
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I've battled Mojo and "Advanced Modeller's Syndrome" for ages, started 8 kits but only produced two builds in four years of returning to the hobby. It will get better :D
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*Cough cough*

G'day all. Sorry for the long time between my last model (and my last post on here). Life kinda got in the way and I haven't been building a single model kit at ALL. So now, I'm going to return back to this hobby and start up the bench again. When I eventually get it cleaned off from the cobwebs, sleeping cats and dust :grin:
"Can not finish a model at all"

"You can get more of what you want, with a kind word and a wallet, than just a kind word".

Currently Building: FROG Wildcat, Fokker DR1 Red baron and some other things...
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Better late than never, welcome back to the fold :grin:

Must be pretty cold down there in the near Antarctic conditions, 16degC an bright sunshine here in Sydney :grin:
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ey up everyone

been a while since ive been here, @18 months i think, lots of things have happened.....moved oop norf to where the monkey hangers live, new job although im currently on the sick for a few weeks, 7th grand kid on the way soon :-D

ive not stopped building although like everyone have gone through periods of mojo loss

will try to be around and contribute again
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Next on the bench: not sure yet lol
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Welcome back !!!
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