Hi, I'm Richard, born to a Eurasian family in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia with three sisters who support my hobby very enthusiastically. Father was a military man so that's where I got my affection for anything that's military in nature. My wife and I have been married for twenty-eight lovely years and we have a daughter. They both leave me in peace to model away in a tiny corner of the store room. I'm from a creative background in advertising.
I confess to being a die hard diorama modeler although I tinker with all genre but have stayed away from Gundam's. My addiction to plastics started at a very tender age of seven when my uncle introduced me to an Airfix Fokker Freindship which he built for me as a birthday present. Obviously I destroyed my first build an Airfix Tigermoth. Everything else then was Airfix as it was the only brand available at Naafi's. Later I was sucked into Mongrams 1/48 scaled planes. No doubt Sheperd Paine was the main influence for weathering my builds. This was where I came across the little pamphlets with his dioramas.
Tamiya was a revelation for me when a friend showed me his Tamiya catalogue No.2. It was a weird scale...everybody else was 1/32 and this brand was 1/35 but boy was it a treasure trove to create dioramas. I got into my first competition in 1977. Then Italeri came into the picture. I soon had the whole range of their military vehicals. The playing field has changed since but I still have both these brands in my dios.
As the story usually goes the time of adolescence put a stall to modelling for a few years and only revived in the eighties. Initially the dios were huge projects but have now been compressed to manageable size for want of space and time. Lately I take my time and some of my builds take years. Thankfully my friends are patient and supportive. Well that's the gist of it and will post a thread with some stuff that I have actually finished. I'm glad to find a new home.
Cheers,
Richard
I confess to being a die hard diorama modeler although I tinker with all genre but have stayed away from Gundam's. My addiction to plastics started at a very tender age of seven when my uncle introduced me to an Airfix Fokker Freindship which he built for me as a birthday present. Obviously I destroyed my first build an Airfix Tigermoth. Everything else then was Airfix as it was the only brand available at Naafi's. Later I was sucked into Mongrams 1/48 scaled planes. No doubt Sheperd Paine was the main influence for weathering my builds. This was where I came across the little pamphlets with his dioramas.
Tamiya was a revelation for me when a friend showed me his Tamiya catalogue No.2. It was a weird scale...everybody else was 1/32 and this brand was 1/35 but boy was it a treasure trove to create dioramas. I got into my first competition in 1977. Then Italeri came into the picture. I soon had the whole range of their military vehicals. The playing field has changed since but I still have both these brands in my dios.
As the story usually goes the time of adolescence put a stall to modelling for a few years and only revived in the eighties. Initially the dios were huge projects but have now been compressed to manageable size for want of space and time. Lately I take my time and some of my builds take years. Thankfully my friends are patient and supportive. Well that's the gist of it and will post a thread with some stuff that I have actually finished. I'm glad to find a new home.
Cheers,
Richard
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