Hmmm, I thought I had already done this soon after I registered for this forum, but Zathros was kind enough to remind me that I had not. I've been lurking in the background providing some white noise by occasionally adding a reply to a thread now and then. I'm interested in flight and the first paper model I got, which was a birthday present was a model of a Curtiss P40 Warhawk. I had no idea at the time that a flat sheet of paper could make what I thought at the time was such a complicated object. I've since found out that paper modeling is neither a fad nor a new art form and actually can get complicated. The P40 was a hand drawn offset printed piece that I believe was imported from the UK, the author, I can't remember the name of. That was in 1997 and I still have that model although it's very shelf worn (we heat with wood and the sun has bleached one side so that camouflage brown and green is now a odd color and green.) I suppose I may one day put a coat of paint on it and a set of decals and call it "rebuilt" but it probably will not have the panel lines on it that it now has. I've built several models since that P40 but have no pictures of them since they aren't what I would call "models of distinction". A lot of those models are the Canon corp. free models. Most of them are built to improve my free hand cutting and gluing skills. I've seen what the Masters of Our Craft have been able to produce and I may one day soon actually take pictures of some of the projects that cross the building desk in the future. At this writing, the most active project on the building desk is a form of kit bash of a Sopwith Tri-wing and Clerget engine from Lief Ohlsson. By the experience of building and knowing how much time and effort the finished product takes me, I'm always amazed at what others do.
Alan
Alan