Just a Yank from across the pond.

[Steve Ski]

Howdy, Yall. My nickname is Ski.

I wasn't sure if yall took in Yanks from across the pond over here,...... but here goes. :worried: You could always tell your friends ya found me at the corner market, I'm good with that.

I recognize a few faces and names here from other sites, so I'm not completely lost. I'm into figure painting, mostly larger scales, but I have been known to work armor kits, and even a wingy dingy thingy every now and again. I just don't fancy working cars or anything that needs to have a very clean appearance when finished. I like to fall back on the "old carpenter's rule", we always know how to hide our mistakes. So far, so good. Car builders have my total and complete respect, their artistic talents are impressive.

I've been "sniffin paint and gluin my fingers together" since I was in my early teens. I got started painting figures very early were I learned from the son of Donald Burgess, the former editor of Campaigns magazine. Yes, that was a very long time ago, but most of us can remember those days way back then.

I'm retired, so I try to get some model bunker time in every day, if possible. Summers are tough, lots to maintain here on the Ranchito, horses, chickens, dogs, stacking hay, clearing fields, etc. Winters are much more conducive to bunker time, minus the shoveling and plowing snow. Up here in the bush 90 miles north of Spokane, WA we can get dumped on, but nothing a good cigar and some tunes playing won't fix, right?

I look forward to meeting yall and enjoying your work, cause I'm always learning, and that's the fun part for me.

Cheers, Ski.

[Tim Marlow]

What Ho Ski. Welcome to the forum.

[peterairfix]

Welcome ski

[Jim R]

Welcome to the forum.

[Neil Merryweather]

Hey, welcome Ski .
I know your excellent work from Planet Figure. This is a great forum, and we do have a few other fellow 'colonials' here to make you feel at home - all jolly decent chaps,of course!
You must share some of your incredible carpentry,too

[adt70hk]

Howdy, Yall. My nickname is Ski.

I wasn't sure if yall took in Yanks from across the pond over here,...... but here goes. :worried: You could always tell your friends ya found me at the corner market, I'm good with that.

I recognize a few faces and names here from other sites, so I'm not completely lost. I'm into figure painting, mostly larger scales, but I have been known to work armor kits, and even a wingy dingy thingy every now and again. I just don't fancy working cars or anything that needs to have a very clean appearance when finished. I like to fall back on the "old carpenter's rule", we always know how to hide our mistakes. So far, so good. Car builders have my total and complete respect, their artistic talents are impressive.

I've been "sniffin paint and gluin my fingers together" since I was in my early teens. I got started painting figures very early were I learned from the son of Donald Burgess, the former editor of Campaigns magazine. Yes, that was a very long time ago, but most of us can remember those days way back then.

I'm retired, so I try to get some model bunker time in every day, if possible. Summers are tough, lots to maintain here on the Ranchito, horses, chickens, dogs, stacking hay, clearing fields, etc. Winters are much more conducive to bunker time, minus the shoveling and plowing snow. Up here in the bush 90 miles north of Spokane, WA we can get dumped on, but nothing a good cigar and some tunes playing won't fix, right?

I look forward to meeting yall and enjoying your work, cause I'm always learning, and that's the fun part for me.

Cheers, Ski.

Ski

My good man!! Really good to see you on here. Must say a bit surprised! How did you find us???

Whilst this is a British hosted forum, it has a pretty diverse membership from both sides of the 'pond' and indeed the rest of the world.....literally to the other side!! As Neil said those from the 'colonial' contingent are all jolly decent chaps!!

We're also pretty diverse in terms of genre.

Make sure you introduce yourself with some of your work.....that U-boat conning tower you did a while back is still one of my all time favourites.

Good to have to aboard!!

ATB.

Andrew

[boatman]

WELL HI Yank ( Ski) nice to meet you sir an hope you will enjoy the best forum goin as they are all nice people on here an we talk every day an we help each other which is how a forum should be an hope someday you will do a wingy thing as sorry to say im not into figers but some of the guys are an they make wonderfull jobs on their paintwork of figures an hope you like some of my ship an wingy things that i have built over the yrs on here
SO all the best to you sir
Chrisb

[Dave Ward]

Welcome Ski,
hope you enjoy the forum - we certainly are a diverse bunch in all meanings...............
Dave

[Tworrs]

Hi Ski and welcome.

[vizenz]

Hello and welcome Ski!

[minitnkr]

Welcome, welcome, welcome. My sister lives on the more temperate side of WA, a bit south of Olympia. We grew up in Bflo. NY so can empathize w/U on snow.

[Steve Ski]

Thank you so kindly, Tim, Peter, Jim, Niel, Andrew, Chris, Dave, T, and V, and Mini. I appreciate the warm welcome, Gents.

Good to be amongst fellow "paint sniffers" having fun. I like that moniker, "colonial", lol. Funny, when I was in Oxford in 02' one of our team members had "Spotted Dick" after dinner. As you can imagine, we colonials were clueless, but that 19yr old kid on our team just had to make a go of it. He did say it was good, though, as we all got a kick out of it. I won't be talking about napkins, or bonnets, or bum bags, or,.............dang, I forgot most of them. I had a list of funny verbal comparisons between Yanks and Brits, the two nations separated by a common language :surprised:

Andrew, I'm going to have to agree with you, the conning tower vignette is one of my favorites too, with "Early Mornin Dew" a close second. I'll throw up a few pics in the appropriate sections. I need to do some digging around and get the lay of the land. Yall have been busy, so I better be too.

Good to see you here too, Niel, that's excellent. There are a lot of incredible artists on Planetfigure, I'm always amazed at what I see. I'll post a cabinet pic or two in the other hobby section as well

Chris, I do have a few wingys on the shelf, so ya never know, it may happen:cold-sweat:

Mini, we're in the heat of it right now, but I'm praying for snow most definitely. It's a gorgeous part of the country, IMHO.

Thanks again, Gents!

[boatman]

Thank you so kindly, Tim, Peter, Jim, Niel, Andrew, Chris, Dave, T, and V, and Mini. I appreciate the warm welcome, Gents.

Good to be amongst fellow "paint sniffers" having fun. I like that moniker, "colonial", lol. Funny, when I was in Oxford in 02' one of our team members had "Spotted Dick" after dinner. As you can imagine, we colonials were clueless, but that 19yr old kid on our team just had to make a go of it. He did say it was good, though, as we all got a kick out of it. I won't be talking about napkins, or bonnets, or bum bags, or,.............dang, I forgot most of them. I had a list of funny verbal comparisons between Yanks and Brits, the two nations separated by a common language :surprised:

Andrew, I'm going to have to agree with you, the conning tower vignette is one of my favorites too, with "Early Mornin Dew" a close second. I'll throw up a few pics in the appropriate sections. I need to do some digging around and get the lay of the land. Yall have been busy, so I better be too.

Good to see you here too, Niel, that's excellent. There are a lot of incredible artists on Planetfigure, I'm always amazed at what I see. I'll post a cabinet pic or two in the other hobby section as well

Chris, I do have a few wingys on the shelf, so ya never know, it may happen:cold-sweat:

Mini, we're in the heat of it right now, but I'm praying for snow most definitely. It's a gorgeous part of the country, IMHO.

Thanks again, Gents!

HI again Ski you say you have built a few wingy things like i have well be nice to see them in pictures as they cant be any worst than mine lol an yes i would love to see you build a plane as im into fairly modern jet fighters like my BIG 1/32 F14D TOMCAT an now starting on my 1/32 superhornet F18F an nowgoin to post some pics on my S-HORNET thread of what ive done today as this is the first time im actually building but love to see your planes sir an could you post them full fize pictures as thumbnails dont show to good on my laptop cheers ATB to you sir
chrisb an jen

[Steve Ski]

Howdy, Chris. I will post my one wingy very soon, and thanks for asking. I try to keep well rounded in different areas of this Sport, but cars would be my weakest. I've found over the years that if I spread myself too thin and try to master too many things they all suffer. I do like the larger scale birds like you, the detail is pretty good, imho. I'll have to check on your posts, looking forward to it.

[boatman]

OK Ski lookin forward to seein your plane build an did you by any chance take pics of your build of the plane as be nice to see a build thread on here in aircraft under construcktion an yes i dont try to spread my self to thin as im mostly building big r/c warships an big 1/32 planes as love them as plenty of detail in this scale for aircraft or bigger scale on the ships an hope you like my builds sir
ATB chrisb