Hello everybodee, thanks for the add. I'm an officially BOAS modeler, having been a keen youngster modeller until life took over and now getting back into modelling in a more or less hardcore fashion since about five years, after the girlfriend said "you do bang on about modelling a bit don't you? But I've not seen you do one yet." So, pushed sleeves up, and now have an unreasonable stash size and a build rate of one to six per month depending on the scale and how much of a lark I'm prepared to go to to improve a kit on detail. I mainly do planes, and because of the age and the fundamental destruction of all of my senses tend towards the bigger scales. Although, I do like to muck about with the rarer 100, 96 and oddsocks scales from time to time, because "you know" and "I bet I can". Wanna know what "BOAS" means? Well, it's a time in life where a lot of us from the birthdays in the sixties are achieving, "burnt out at sixty". I have health issues that mean that my sport is modelling, it replaces pretty much all other interests. A lot of you will know what I mean. My main interest areas are in WW one and two, and the esoterics. I deeply love the swansong period of British aviation in the sixties. I like to study the aircrafts history and detail in order to super detail and take a kit, even a horrible one, to acceptable levels. I definitely have a kink for SMER kits, they're horrible, so I feel sorry for them and make them stand up to review. I'm not a competition winner or a rivet counter and do this for a laugh, but at the same time have some nifty shortcuts and clever tricks that I will gladly give away. Pet peeve? People who buy up pre production runs to oversell. I want a classic ariframes Blenheim 4 and an F3D Skyknight, both in 1:48 scale for under the price of a flat in Mayfair in London. I will swap my cats for either of them. Loooots of cats. There are lots of posts on here to interest me here so we'll see each other from time to time, I'm sure. ReeseAlive, France. (Expat, Ukasansalé) (UK, sans (without ale) the beer here is crap) Ukelaly)