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Hello From Indiana

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Hello to all.
I am Kevin From Indiana, USA. I have recently got back into modeling 1/35th scale armor and figures. I have been heavy and I mean heavy in H.O. scale railroading for most of my life. When I got married back in 84. The railroading was put on the backburner cause we didn't have the room for a layout. Well that's the time I got into 1/35th scale Modeling. After we moved to a house with a good size basement, the trains came back out of storage and the armor went into storage. Well 2 1/2 years ago, I was cutting tree limbs in the back yard. I was up 12 feet on a ladder. A Limb came back on me and kicked me off of the ladder. I fell on my back fracturing my tailbone, right hip, fractured and twisted 3 vertebrates, Broke 4 rib, and pulverized my right wrist to where they had to rebuild it with steel plates and 14 screws and donated bones from cadavers. I was in the ICU for 3 weeks cause when I hit the ground my heart was bruised and I had 3 blood clots break loose. After the ICU, I was in the rehab Hospital for 4 months learning to walk again. While in rehab I started to watch you tube build videos. That got me backing into the modeling scene. I thank you guys for letting me ramble my head off. I hope I learn some new things that I can apply to my wide modeling range. Thanks again Kevin
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:welcome: to ISM Kevin! :) :thumb1:

Wow, sorry to hear about your accident and injuries!
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Welcome to ISm Kevin, quite a journey you've had fella :)
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Welcome aboard Kevin :cheers2:
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Glad yout doing better now :welcome: to ISM........
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:welcome: aboard to ISM Kevin! Happy modelling! :cheers2:
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...and some other stuff too.


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Hello and welcome to ISM Kevin :)
Quite a story you have :shock:
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:welcome: from New Zealand
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:cheers2: :welcome:
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Welcome to the forum :cheers2:
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:welcome: to the forum & enjoy
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:welcome: Kevin
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:welcome: to ISM from Evansville IN :hi:
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