Finally picking up the courage

[rtfoe]

Hi, I introduced myself in another thread and will just take a snippet from that to reintroduce myself...

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.

Retrieving my four thousand or so images (most are build blogs) from MM, I'm not sure of their quality so here are some humble few at a glance...

 

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Here are some more attachments...

 

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And more...

 

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Sorry if it's been picture heavy...seriously this is the last batch...

 

[rtfoe]

I'm working on a dio called The Pacific and hope it gets finished in time for MALCOM which is a yearly event held in Penang. It attracts modellers from Asia. Hope the turn out is good this year.

Cheers,
Richard

 

[papa 695]

Hi and welcome to the forum Richard, some very impressive work you've done. What scale is the Walrus on the take off shoot/ramp ? that I really do like, and your P38 Lightnings.

 

[Andy Belsey]

Welcome aboard Richard!
Andy B

 

[rtfoe]

Hi and welcome to the forum Richard, some very impressive work you've done. What scale is the Walrus on the take off shoot/ramp ? that I really do like, and your P38 Lightnings.

Hi Ian,

Thanks for the welcome. The Walrus is a 1/72 scale Matchbox kit. The catapult is fully scratchbuilt. The lightnings are 1/48 both Academy and Monogram and a 1/72 Matchbox kit. Glad you like them.

Cheers,
Richard

 

[rtfoe]

Welcome aboard Richard!
Andy B

Hi Andy,
Thank you. How are you doing? Hope the house is sorted out.

Cheers,
Richard

 

[Andy Belsey]

My house will take several months of repair. It currently has no ceilings! and is drying out. I'm living with friends. I now find, like you, that I've been turned out of my 'virtual home' too!
Andy B

 

[Kirstin_Sturm]

Hello and welcome Richard love those kits

 

[rtfoe]

Hi Ian,

Thanks for the welcome. The Walrus is a 1/72 scale Matchbox kit. The catapult is fully scratchbuilt. The lightnings are 1/48 both Academy and Monogram and a 1/72 Matchbox kit. Glad you like them.

Cheers,
Richard

Incidentally I do have the full set of WIP images for both the Walrus and catapult as well as the Lightnings. Will have to re-write the blogs if anyone is interested.

Cheers,
Richard

 

[rtfoe]

My house will take several months of repair. It currently has no ceilings! and is drying out. I'm living with friends. I now find, like you, that I've been turned out of my 'virtual home' too!
Andy B

Andy...I feel for you having gone through flooding before.

Richard

 

[rtfoe]

Hello and welcome Richard love those kits

Hi Denise,

Thanks for the welcome and kind comment. Which genre do you like?

Cheers,
Richard

 

[colin m]

Hello Richard.
And what an entry. A brilliant collection of builds you have there.

 

[rtfoe]

Thanks Colin.
I nearly lost a huge amount of those images having only backed up my recent ones. I've got the WIP's of nearly all of them bad sadly don't have the blogs that go with them. I may have to re-write.

Cheers,
Richard

 

[Steve Jones]

Richard
That was a terrific introduction to match your fantastic builds. A very big admirer of your work and looking to forward to seeing some more palm leaves
Steve

 

[rtfoe]

Hey Steve, hi,

For a slow poke I didn't do that badly with my builds, thanks...still got a long way to go. Palm leaves speaking of which I may have to start the blog all over again so by the time I reach the last post I might have something new to show you.

Cheers,
Richard