had some time out from making model (about 10 years if i think about it
) but had had enough of messing with old cars 
and scale modelling was allwas somthing i liked doing 
i started my collection when i was a we lad! and over the years built up rather a large collection..
i found that living so close to culdrose, i allwas found that fleet air arm aircraft was what did it for me.. i end up with nearlly every type opprated by the navy.. from about 1947 to the pressent day!! some type's i had diffrent mk's of the same aircraft! the hi light of the many hours spent building them was being asked to display them at culdrose for there 50th aniversary
there were at the 1997(i think?)airday in one of the hangars,in a large glas cabinet and in the officer mess for some mouths after that! then i ended up putting some of them in glass cabinets on display, in my inlaws pub in gweek, near helston..but over years the smoke from the dirty! smokers,
start to damage them.. so i took them all out, gave them a good clean/restore. and boxed them all upa and thay lived in the loft! 
next "theam i had going was what i called "testing times"! RAE "raspberry ripple" was the scheme that most ended up in.. but i allso had lot of first build/ prototypes had a lovely kit of a FD2 and a E28/39.. wish i still had them!
anyway.. the end came one day when i need some cash.. and quick.. so the dreaded Ebay was were i thought i could make a quick buck..
put couple of my rarer kits on there (AEW gannet, sea prince, and my rather nice Sea Balliol! ) but put in the advert.. "one of many of my collection..
next thing i know i get an email, and a chap is round offering me a 4 figure sum to take the lot away for his private colletion
and to this day i wish i never sold them!
the worst bit???? i did take photos of them.. but lost them all when my lap top dieded some years ago
would love to find some one with a photo of them from the culdrose airday.. 1997 i think it was..
anyway.. over the years i have still keep buying/collecting kits.. and nows the time to start all over again..
the theme this time i think is going to be prototypes again. but all so "what if's" i have just knocked togather a airfix islander,but done it as a maritime patrol aircraft.. of the new zealand airforce..
just been digging in my scrap box.. and found enough of an airfix meteor kit to knock somthing together.. so watch this space
Enjoy what I do which these days is mainly 1/48th USN/USMC/USCG but latley been doing a bit of RAF/RN and larger 72nd bits.I usually have something on the go..at the moment its a 48th Sea Prince
.so do i start small,or do i go and get a large revell atlantic 1 in 72nd scale??????.well i think you know where this is going.lol.
