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Hello from Latitude 49deg 9min 51sec (Vancouver Island).


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Hi,

 

My name is Bruce, and I've been modelling since 1970, with a short break between 1978 and 1981 when I was more interested in music and girls. I was brought up in Australia, I lived in New Zealand for 7 years, and I've been in Canada since January, 2007.

 

I have modelled in most "areas" such as warships, sailing ships, ocean liners, tanks, cars, military and civil planes, helicopters, spaceships and figures but I'm not really expert at anything. I suppose I mainly make military planes and AFVs, but I usually just have fun building and painting things to scale. I don't believe in the concept of scale colour, although I do subscribe to the process of painting things the way they look.

 

I'm a geotechnical engineer by profession (a of civil engineer specialising in how the ground reacts to loads - building foundations, roads, excavations, retaining walls, bridges, landslides, earthquakes - that sort of thing). Outside of work, my interests are spending time with my wife, and enjoying what the Pacific North West has to offer. I like to ski in winter. I haven't sailed for a long time, but it's something I'd like to do again eventually. There's a lot of water around here, and I think it would be fun to use it other than to travel to and from Vancouver.

 

As far as models go, I like the challenges of some of the older kits, and I appreciate the effort that goes into the precision of fit and level of detail of the newer kits. Nostalgically, my favourite kits are the old Airfix, FROG and Matchbox, but I have fair smacking of Tasca Shermans Tamiygawa, and Dragon kits in my stash. One kit that I've been working on (on and off) for about 10 years is Dragon's original Nashorn (Kit No. 6001) which appeared to be so mind-blowingly good in the box, and which we now know is a pig of a kit, and not worth bothering with. Well, I've been bothering with it all this time. I'm not going to throw it away, and it will get finished sooner or later. I have, at least, managed to get things to fit, but it's been a Titanic struggle.

 

I hope to meet some of you at IPMS shows. One day, maybe, the Nationals will be held somewhere near the PNW ... :)

 

Regards,

 

Bruce

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Cool Bruce!

No, really....its probably cool at 49 deg N. Lat.

Been there, very nice!

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Welcome Bruce! And send some of that cool down here in Texas, we need it. Happy modeling,

 

Mark

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  • 3 weeks later...

Hi Bruce,

Welcome aboard! I don't usually post here but since you live "just across the water" from me I wanted to chime in. I live near Port Angeles. You will find a number of fellow modelers in the area. Hopefully, you made it over to the Vancouver contest on 12 Oct! It's a good show with lots of fellow travelers. Unfortunately, my plans to attend blew up at the last minute so I missed it. Have heard it was a good turnout though.

Mark

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