discussion Hello from Bavaria!

[vizenz]

Hello,
my name is Andreas (nickname Andi).
I am 41 years old, I have two children (9 and 6 years old) and a wonderful wife and live in Bavaria / Germany.
I started gluing airplane models together as a child, then took the famous hobby break at some point, was a soldier for 12 years and then, ended up back into model building.
I mainly build 1/72 military vehicle models. I like to print missing parts for conversions or even entire models myself with my Mars 3Pro 3D printer.
I'm not one for hyper-detail. However, I try to research all my models well and therefore have a well-equipped library on the subject of military vehicles.
After browsing around a bit, this seems to be a very nice community, so I signed up. I'm excited to see what there is to discover and learn new things here.

Best regards,
Andreas

 

[scottie3158]

Andi,
It's a very warm welcome from me. Hope you enjoy the forum there are a lot of friendly people on here. I haven't been to Bavaria for a long long time a little place called Bad Sontoffeln if I remember the name correctly.

 

[Bri62]

Hi and welcome Andi glad to have you aboard

 

[The Smythe Meister]

...... and it's a warm welcome from me too Andi.....
I look forward to seeing you around the parish. :thumb2:

 

[Ian M]

Welcome to the mad house. lol.
We hope that you enjoy it here and we lookforward to seeing some of your works.

 

[yak face]

Hi andi welcome to the forum , looking forward to seeing your models , cheers tony

 

[rtfoe]

Hi Andi, welcome aboard. You'll find many are still into the old style scratchery of parts but quite a few have ventured into 3D printing their parts. Beware the banter as it can get quite ridiculously funny at times, modeling wise.

Cheers,
Richard aka Wabble

 

[Airborne01]

Greetings from me too - glad another tanky person falls to earth!
Steve

 

[JayCee]

A warm welcome from me too.
John.

 

[Waspie]

Welcome Andi. I'm sure you'll enjoy it on here. It's warm, it's friendly - it's whatever you want it to be. As long as its modelling. :thumb2:

 

[Jim R]

Welcome to the forum Andi. 3D printing is rapidly becoming a big part of the hobby. I'm sure you'll enjoy your time here

 

[Dave Ward]

Andi
welcome - you'll find a lot of like minded people on the forum - more of us are dabbling with the 3D printers now, it's increasing....................... I can't use a resin printer in my flat, so I've been persevering with my FDM printers. At the moment, my Sunlu is quietly printing the hull for a 1/72 Vickers Independent tank, one of a long list of British WWI & Inter war tanks that I've been working on
Dave

 

[Tworrs]

Hi Andi and welcome

 

[AlanG]

Welcome Andreas

Used to visit Garmish-Partenkirchen a lot to go climbing and skiing. Climbed the Zucspitz and Alpspitz a few times. Beautiful area

 

[Tim Marlow]

Hi and welcome Andi. Nice introduction. I’ve just commented on the figures you’ve just posted, top job mate :thumb2:

 

[adt70hk]

Welcome Andi...... Good to hear you mainly dabble in the one true scale that is 1/72!

 

[AlanG]

Good to hear you mainly dabble in the one true scale that is 1/72!

Are we going to need to have a 'chat' again about this blasphemy?

 

[Tim Marlow]

Are we going to need to have a 'chat' again about this blasphemy? :smiling3:

Yea……you tell ’im Alan. Everyone knows the OTS is 28mm

 

[adt70hk]

Are we going to need to have a 'chat' again about this blasphemy? :smiling3:

Yea……you tell ’im Alan. Everyone knows the OTS is 28mm

And still you cannot admit the truth! :smiling5:

 

[vizenz]

Hello,
Thank you all very much for the warm welcome!
I've already looked around the forum a bit and I really like it here. I've already discovered some interesting topics - and there are incredibly good model makers here!
I have to admit that I always fancy larger scales, but I'm extremely unsuitable for that. When I just think about the time and patience it takes to put together a tank track in 1/35 - in the same time frame I build a whole 1/72 model! And then I can finally paint and age again - that's probably my favorite aspect of model building at the moment.
Best regards,
Andi