Global Scale Modeller

Hello!
I've just discovered this forum after visiting the Ultimate website, and decided to sign up.
I'm a member of several modelling fora, under the same username in all of them. I'm a 70-year-old Scotsman who's lived all his adult life in the North of England
and now reside in a small town near Manchester. I'm a retired Registered Nurse, living with my fiancee Jan. We've had 9 kids between us (5 of Jan's, 4 of mine!) and are now proud grandparents to 16, aged from 32 down to 10 months, and great-grandparents to 4.
My modelling interests include aircraft of WW2 in Europe and the Cold War, and smaller lesser-modelled Air Forces with a special interest in Finland's Ilmavoimat. For aircraft I work in 1/72 and 1/144 for "Heavies". I also build WW2 armour, mostly in 1/72, occasionally in 1/35. I also occasionally model civilian vehicles, and have gathered together the makings of a small N gauge railway layout, although no work has commenced on that.
Away from modelling, I play guitar (as the T-shirt says, I play guitar because I like it, not because I'm good at it!), read Sci-Fi (favourite author Larry Niven) and I enjoy watching Rugby and motorsport.
Currently on my modelling workbench are an Airfix 1/72 Brewster Buffalo, an Eduard 1/144 Junkers Ju52/3m, and a Roden 1/144 Convair B-36.

Welcome. Larry Niven, old school. Looking forward to seeing your builds.

Hello and welcome
Happy to have you aboard. Please feel free to message me if you need anything

Welcome to the forum. Good to see someone from North of t' border, now south of t' border!

Good to see an aircraft and tank builder joining the forum. Would love to see the beginnings of the railway project too.

Hello and to the ISM forum.

When you get a moment please check out the forum guidelines which can be found ---> here

We'd love to see your work & progress but in order to post photos you will need to host them on an external site such as Flickr and then link to them from the forum. Unfortunately the forum currently doesn't have sufficient capacity or bandwidth to host directly uploaded photos.

There is a quick guide on how to use the Flickr integration on the forum ---> here and a couple of step by step guides in here

As well as the forum boards there is a really useful Modeller Toolkit available which can help with paint matching, paint thinning, glue types & a scale calculator that can be found ---> here

We also run a number of group builds & special interest groups through the year so feel free to enter any of those that you like the look of - once they're set up they can be found ---> here

Otherwise take a look around and join in, and if you have any questions feel free to ask.

Have fun!

Welcome aboard!