Hi all and welcome to my first blog of An Idiot Goes Model Making. "It's always good to have a hobby" they say and mine is making models, scratchbuilt, kits or otherwise but I have the disposition of Spanish heritage and according to er indoors, suffer from "Manana". Spanish for tomorrow or "why put off today, something that you can do tomorrow"!
On the other hand, I'm the son of a late professional model maker, of whom I can only say. Was a true expert in his field. Yes I know that sounds biased but I consider it to be true, specially given that he had a Phillip's radio stolen from his car because a thief liked it but alas for the thief, it was a prototype model (or shell) that he had built for Phillip's and I refer to the day's before rapid prototyping and cad!
His skills and scales knew no bounds. "So" your thinking, "An Idiot Goes Model Making", yea right!
Well I'm about as adept at it as Jeremy Clarkson is to motorbikes. The fact is, I just muddle along and lack a vital hotline to heaven.
So what are my interests? Being a mid 60's child, the computer game never existed and a mobile phone came in a suitcase. That left railways, Scalextric and Sci Fi TV programmes like Star Trek, UFO, Thunderbirds and Space 1999. Out of all of these railways stand out the most.
I grew up in the west of Greater London and for some reason mother thought continually pointing them out all the time would be a great idea. No doubt to bore me to death and tire me out but alas it had the opposite effect. So forgive me if I spend more time on this subject more than the others.
I still have my love of Sci Fi, specially Star Trek and the models to prove it but most of those come under the legend of "Manana" and are put away for future completion, that will be sometime before I pop off the mortal coil then. Scalextric still plays a part too, I have a large amount, nothing permanent but no one to play with, despite it being digital. Boo hoo and thanks kids!
So there you have it, a brief(!) introduction and a damn good reason for jumping from one project and subject to another.
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