About Me
The first time I came across plastic models was in my first year at primary school where I have met a schoolmate whose father was a modeler. As soon as I have seen his built models I wanted to have similar "toys" as well.
For the first few years I considered all the models more a toys than scaled replicas of historical originals but as the time went by, I find a sort of joy also in attempts to follow historical accuracy. However, I never purse the ultimate match of my scaled models with their originals.
Usually I am happy if the model looks at least a little as its big brother.
There were few milestones in my modeler’s life:
The first is connected with the model I "helped" my dad to build.
It was 1/50 scaled Avia BH-11 produced by SMER which I have received from my father’s friend. Actually, my dad built it almost completely on his own so I had to wait for another model, which turned out to be Hawker Tempest.
It was a birthday present. A 1/72 scaled Hawker Tempest, once again from SMER. This time I gave my dad no chance to even touch it! And the result was definitely awesome! A lot of glue everywhere, no color finish, no decals. But I was happy because I was a true modeler!
The third milestone is the second model I built on my own. As you can see, I progressed really fast :) The third model was 1/48 scaled Corsair, guess from which company....Right, from SMER (actually, in late 1990s there were not many model manufacturers available in Slovakia, with SMER being one of the cheapest ones, it turned out to be my supplier of "testing rabbits" for my pocket money) But back to the Corsair. I consider it a milestone as it was the first model I have ever painted. Tempera colors I used for the paint job turned out to be a wrong idea so from this point on I used regular Humbrol enamel colors.
The remaining milestones are all connected with airbrush. At first, I bought very simple Revell Airbrush powered by pressed gas can, then I switched to old Russian single-action Aerograph combined with compressor from the fridge, the next stage was relatively cheap double-action Fengda combined with Revell Beta compressor without output pressure regulation and approximately 3 years ago I have bought an Iwata double-action airbrush with new compressor and this is finally the combination of gear I am satisfied with.
I have experimenteed even with balsa and RC models but with no real success.
For the first few years I considered all the models more a toys than scaled replicas of historical originals but as the time went by, I find a sort of joy also in attempts to follow historical accuracy. However, I never purse the ultimate match of my scaled models with their originals.
Usually I am happy if the model looks at least a little as its big brother.
There were few milestones in my modeler’s life:
The first is connected with the model I "helped" my dad to build.
It was 1/50 scaled Avia BH-11 produced by SMER which I have received from my father’s friend. Actually, my dad built it almost completely on his own so I had to wait for another model, which turned out to be Hawker Tempest.
It was a birthday present. A 1/72 scaled Hawker Tempest, once again from SMER. This time I gave my dad no chance to even touch it! And the result was definitely awesome! A lot of glue everywhere, no color finish, no decals. But I was happy because I was a true modeler!
The third milestone is the second model I built on my own. As you can see, I progressed really fast :) The third model was 1/48 scaled Corsair, guess from which company....Right, from SMER (actually, in late 1990s there were not many model manufacturers available in Slovakia, with SMER being one of the cheapest ones, it turned out to be my supplier of "testing rabbits" for my pocket money) But back to the Corsair. I consider it a milestone as it was the first model I have ever painted. Tempera colors I used for the paint job turned out to be a wrong idea so from this point on I used regular Humbrol enamel colors.
The remaining milestones are all connected with airbrush. At first, I bought very simple Revell Airbrush powered by pressed gas can, then I switched to old Russian single-action Aerograph combined with compressor from the fridge, the next stage was relatively cheap double-action Fengda combined with Revell Beta compressor without output pressure regulation and approximately 3 years ago I have bought an Iwata double-action airbrush with new compressor and this is finally the combination of gear I am satisfied with.
I have experimenteed even with balsa and RC models but with no real success.