Howdy from Texas

[ChrisCareless]

Morning Gents & Ladies if any present

Found my way to y'all thanks to Paul B. Thanks again mate for the heads up about this lil slice of plastic heaven..

So I've been building since I was about 6 up till I was 17, enlisted an had to hang up the hobby.. got out in 2006 and hit the hobby hard an fast.
Recently I've been volunteering with wounded warriors @ the WTU on Ft.Hood and bring them the joys of modeling as a therapy as I use it, some of the guys an girls there have also built models as well and were excited to get back into it, along with a couple other local club members of my club, we've donated model kits as well as a couple company's have donated kits as well, Squadron, SprueBrothers and AK Interactive are just a couple companies that jumped on board to help with this cause, Thank you again you guys for helping also I've had a few people from my FB account help by donating as well from their personal stash's, good people and can't thank them enough.

SO as to what I build.. I do a lot of large scale figure work, 1/6th up to 1/3rd, mostly female and monster stuff, 35th scale armor, 48th/32nd aircraft and 350th ship

Currently I'm working on (Tamiya's) 32nd F-15C and a (Nude Resin) girl named Hocus Pocus - she isn't nude though lol

so yeah that's bout it..


Hiya folks.

V/R
Chris

[Bridon]

to the forum Chris...nice to have you with us.

Brian

[Paul]

Welcome to ISM Chris, look forward to seeing your work

[Lee]

Welcome to ISM Chris

[Daishi12]

to ISM mate, -- am I going to be the first to say looking forward to seeing your builds

[HWGuderian23]

to ISM Chris!

[ThomasBrown]

[Nige201980]

Hi and welcome to ISM Chris

[Rob]

Hi Chris, great to have you with us. I am really looking forward to seeing some of you figure work - sounds amazing.

[alextheblue]

to ISM Chris. Sounds like some great work you're doing there with the volunteering!!

[longlance67]

Welcome to ISM Chris

looking forward to seeing your builds



shane

[Pir8hnter]

Chris,
Welcome to ISM and thanks from a former combat Marine for helping the wounded vets.
Yours
Pirate Hunter

On The Bench
1:48 Tim'ering
1:48 Da'achay
1:48 Weapons for sci-fi aircraft
Collecting all the other stuff needed for the dioramas to go with them

[ChrisCareless]

Bridon, Paul, Lee, Daishi12,HWGuderian23, Thomas Brown, Nige201980, Rob, alextheblue, longlance67 and Pir8hnter

Thank you chaps for the warm welcome, I really do appreciate that a lot !!

Pir8hnter as a former ABN Grunt, I'm all about helping out my brothers&sister now since I am not longer standing on the line in anyway I can.. modeling has been a blessing to me and has helped me keep focused on being around to keep modeling.. Sadly though I lost one of my WW' a couple weeks ago who was one of my modeling kids from the WTU where I volunteer at... he was a great modeler, I've got some of his works posted on my FB account..

anyways sorry bout the bad bit of news.. On with the glue sniffing and enjoyment..

V/R
Chris

[Pir8hnter]

I'm truly sorry to read that.

[spruecutter]

[olfogey]

" Recently I've been volunteering with wounded warriors @ the WTU on Ft.Hood and bring them the joys of modeling as a therapy as I use it "

Welcome to "ISM", and I was sure pleased to read the above in your post...........I am a disabled Vietnam Vet, and glad to hear of someone helping out other "brothers".

[ChrisCareless]

Howdy Fogey,

glad I could put a pleased feelings across for ya Brother.. and Welcome Home and thank you.. my folks did some time over that way also.. so .. well I'm sure ya feel me... being slightly disabled myself I do as much as I can for the kids who are in the limbo phase.. and modeling has done the trick for almost a year with the troops I get to deal with.. I mean really.. I get to build models with brothers and talk shop as well as educate them on the stuff that's out there and from time to time we get donations of kits an product for them to try out .. it's a win win..

[PhildaFish]

to ISM Chris! Great work with using modelling as therapy, I do a similar thing here with people suffering from depression.

[ChrisCareless]

hey there PH,

yes sir it defiantely does help with depression, one of the things alot of my guys an I deal with.. it def helps ty for the welcome also Sir, much appreciated

[PhildaFish]

Depression is a terrible thing in any form, I've been dealing with ptsd myself for a while now. I'm not ex-military but did spend a few years getting shot at but the ptsd only came out when I was bed ridden after putting my back out, 20 years after the traumatic events. Modelling helps me but helping others helps me more. Keep up the good work!

[ChrisCareless]

WELL.... I'mmmm baaaaaaaaaackk... had to kinda vanish for a bit due to family issues, but I'm back and building again after getting settled.. will post up works soon enough.. in the mean time if you have me on FB, then you've already seen some of the new stuff I've been working on.. if you don't have me on FB, you are more than welcomed to shoot me a friend request to Chris Careless, profile photo is a Black Wolf

Cheers

Chris

[martin57]

[moi196872]

to the forum Chris.

[Corkmyster9436]

to ISM from Evansville IN

[ChrisCareless]

thnks for the welcome backs chaps..

[kiwigav]

to ISM

[Paul]

Good to see you back at it chris

[UKguyInUSA]

to ISM, Chris

[SgtSaboo]

Welcome aboard Chris!