Please note that I have a new email address, so could
you redirect emails to the new address:
crazycelt11@...

Thanks


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> 1. Introduction
> From: "Bruce" <brucek10032@...>
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> Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 04:46:56 -0000
> From: "Bruce" <brucek10032@...>
> Subject: Introduction
>
> Lt. Tincher has asked me to introduce myself, so
> here goes:
>
> I haven't actually built any models in quite a few
> years now. I
> just don't have time anymore. The last one I worked
> on was in the
> late 1980s or early 1990s, I'm not sure. I never
> finished it but
> got about half way through. It was a 1/350 scale
> plastic kit of
> Nippon Maru, buff and white, as she appeared when
> she was here in NY
> for the bicentennial. I used fine wire for the
> rigging, putting in
> the right sag where appropriate. I soaked the flags
> in a mixture of
> white glue and water to shape them so they appeared
> to be flapping
> in the wind. Even unfinished, she's quite
> attractive in my display
> case.
>
> When I ran out of time for modeling, I had a number
> of projects
> underway that I never finished. Ships were only one
> of the
> categories of subject I modeled. Another unfinished
> project is a
> World War One Garford-Putilov armored car in 1/35
> scale. This was a
> scratchbuild. The rivets and bolt heads were taken
> from various
> Monogram plastic kits, shaved off one at a time with
> a razor, and
> placed on measured, premarked positions with the
> point of a number
> 11 X-Acto blade. That also looks pretty good in the
> display case
> even in its unfinished state.
>
> I never lost interest, though. I have attended just
> about every
> Fleet Week here for many, many years and have
> thousands of photos of
> the ships and of the aircraft and USMC vehicles,
> equipment, and
> weaponry they carried. These days, though, I'm more
> into collecting
> actual (and some repro) militaria and attending
> reenactors' events
> like the one at Reading, PA, every June.
>
> In fact, facing the fact I'm never going to have the
> time to get
> back into modeling, I'm starting to sell off some of
> my kit
> collection and some other stuff on eBay. I don't
> know whether it's
> OK if I occasionally mention that here when
> something goes up for
> auction there. Is it? I'm doing this through a guy
> I know who has
> a lot of eBay selling experience. I send him stuff
> and we split the
> proceeds. I don't have time, myself, to deal with
> all the hassle of
> the eBay auction process.
>
> Meanwhile, I love looking at photos of well-done
> models and that's
> one reason I'm on this group. It's possible I know
> some people
> among the 500+ members of this group. I worked at
> Polk's Hobbies
> for ten years. I was a member of the IPMS for
> almost 30 years and
> went to many a convention here, in Washington, DC,
> in Upstate NY,
> and in Canada. I'm also a member of the NY Military
> Affairs
> Symposium (www.nymas.com).
>
> Bruce Kamiat
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> Ship model building. Lets get some discussion
> going!
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