Hello,
I'm human.
I reside on Earth, located in the Sol system.
Seriously though, I'm a Kiwi from New Zealand living the dream. Or am I dreaming the life?
Oh, I like model building. Discovered paper craft as it is today several years ago when I found Ulrich Prahn's Star Trek Cardboard Models.
http://www.haenssgen.de/uni/trek/stmodels.html
God, that would have been 1998/99. A shame to lose such talent.
As a young teenager, some 30+ years ago, began using recycled cardboard to make models. Mainly because my parents or myself could not afford to buy the much coveted plastic replica's. Mind you, what I wanted (Sci-Fi kits for Star Wars, Star Trek, Space 1999 etc) just wasn't readily available or affordable where I lived.
So, I resorted to using photos to estimate my builds. Made a few ambitious large models, but mostly small stuff that didn't take long to make. Some of the things I made were, the TV Logan's Run Hover Car, Star Wars Snow Speeder & Star Destroyer, R2D2, all of the Elite game space ships. All are long since gone.
I dabbed with 3D modelling in my 20's, but never really pursued it like I should have. Always wished I could somehow slice the models so I could print on paper in a layer form to build or unfold. Only discovered pepakura not too long ago, but have just been too lazy to do anything with it.
Now almost pushing 50 and a wee bit lazy, I prefer to download someone else nice work. Has become a nice relaxing hobby to build these models. I like to resize them to, to give me much bigger versions to display or modify.
Well, rather than prattle on forever, I'll leave it there.
LT
I'm human.
I reside on Earth, located in the Sol system.
Seriously though, I'm a Kiwi from New Zealand living the dream. Or am I dreaming the life?
Oh, I like model building. Discovered paper craft as it is today several years ago when I found Ulrich Prahn's Star Trek Cardboard Models.
http://www.haenssgen.de/uni/trek/stmodels.html
God, that would have been 1998/99. A shame to lose such talent.
As a young teenager, some 30+ years ago, began using recycled cardboard to make models. Mainly because my parents or myself could not afford to buy the much coveted plastic replica's. Mind you, what I wanted (Sci-Fi kits for Star Wars, Star Trek, Space 1999 etc) just wasn't readily available or affordable where I lived.
So, I resorted to using photos to estimate my builds. Made a few ambitious large models, but mostly small stuff that didn't take long to make. Some of the things I made were, the TV Logan's Run Hover Car, Star Wars Snow Speeder & Star Destroyer, R2D2, all of the Elite game space ships. All are long since gone.
I dabbed with 3D modelling in my 20's, but never really pursued it like I should have. Always wished I could somehow slice the models so I could print on paper in a layer form to build or unfold. Only discovered pepakura not too long ago, but have just been too lazy to do anything with it.
Now almost pushing 50 and a wee bit lazy, I prefer to download someone else nice work. Has become a nice relaxing hobby to build these models. I like to resize them to, to give me much bigger versions to display or modify.
Well, rather than prattle on forever, I'll leave it there.
LT
