It'll be a long thread!
Hmmmmm! Well, I'm flattered you consider me to be more than an enthusiast, but the truth is not so glamorous! It’s been a few years since I completed a model of any kind and much longer since I tackled a card model though I do retain the enthusiasm!!!
I was disabled in a traffic accident in January 1990 when my motorcycle wrote off (I kid you not!!) the car that pulled out of a side road and stopped right across my lane of the main road I was on. Given the option of going around back and hitting a brick wall, or going around front and into oncoming traffic, I picked the only other option and flew over the top . . .minus the bike!!!
With a (well) fractured pelvis, smashed right forearm, wrist and right thumb, plus several cracked vertebra and a “shattered” left hip, I spent three months on my back in hospital, had five operations (three major) and spent the next six months learning to walk again . . .after a fashion! I did well with the help of a really great orthopaedic surgeon: most people thought I'd be stuck in a wheelchair!!
I haven’t worked since: my hands are arthritic (along with most of my other joints) and have lost much of the fine motor and sensory skills necessary for really successful modelling.
Sorry, but I might not be the best person to ‘pilot’ a build. Oh I will get there in the end, driven by enthusiasm, determination and sheer bloody mindedness, but it will take a while and possibly more than a year ‘cos there will be days when I can’t do anything!
For what it's worth, I say again:
Graham.
Thanks again. Its always motivating to get that positive feedback.
Its also gratifying to think that there might be at least one other person out there who'll actually sink their teeth into this and build it. I also need the feedback from another builder to help me tweak it...so what I may do is send you an early version, and request that you make your own build thread, so I can see your progress and learn from it. We'll cross that bridge when this puppy is closer. I'll post a few more pics soon.
Hmmmmm! Well, I'm flattered you consider me to be more than an enthusiast, but the truth is not so glamorous! It’s been a few years since I completed a model of any kind and much longer since I tackled a card model though I do retain the enthusiasm!!!
I was disabled in a traffic accident in January 1990 when my motorcycle wrote off (I kid you not!!) the car that pulled out of a side road and stopped right across my lane of the main road I was on. Given the option of going around back and hitting a brick wall, or going around front and into oncoming traffic, I picked the only other option and flew over the top . . .minus the bike!!!
With a (well) fractured pelvis, smashed right forearm, wrist and right thumb, plus several cracked vertebra and a “shattered” left hip, I spent three months on my back in hospital, had five operations (three major) and spent the next six months learning to walk again . . .after a fashion! I did well with the help of a really great orthopaedic surgeon: most people thought I'd be stuck in a wheelchair!!
I haven’t worked since: my hands are arthritic (along with most of my other joints) and have lost much of the fine motor and sensory skills necessary for really successful modelling.
Sorry, but I might not be the best person to ‘pilot’ a build. Oh I will get there in the end, driven by enthusiasm, determination and sheer bloody mindedness, but it will take a while and possibly more than a year ‘cos there will be days when I can’t do anything!
For what it's worth, I say again:
me said:jawdrop jawdrop jawdrop Outstanding (much neglected) subject; AWESOME rendition/execution and its going to be FREE! :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:
I must've died & gone to modelling heaven!
Can't wait to see the end result
Graham.