About me

Name:: David Smith
Nickname:: Inflight Poser
Country:: Switzerland
Town:: Bützberg
Member since:: December 11, 2022
Communities:: scalemates.com (Scale modeling)
papermates.net (Paper modeling)
gundammates.com (Gundam modeling)
railwaymates.com (Train modeling)
diecastmates.com (Diecast models)
rcmates.net (RC modeling)

Typical start, making Airfix kits from Woolies with my Dad on the dining room table. Progressed to 1:12 Tamiya racing cars and LS pistol kits as a teenager. Then a big gap for college, work and a move to Switzerland. I did make a couple of kits 20 years ago before the kids came along.. Then during lockdown I bought an airbrush and found I could get a half-decent finish for the first time. Now I'm enjoying experimenting, mainly on 1:72 planes and the odd car for variety.

I'm not a big detail freak. I'd rather see a plane wheels up and with a pilot in the cockpit than with every hatch opened on the ground.

I have been able to visit a few aircraft museums in the UK and US and this prompted the ebay purchase of some diecast Corgi 1:72 planes. The TSR2, Blackbuck Vulcan, Douglas Bader's Spitfire, a Dambuster Lancaster (signed by some of the crew) and the black Eurofighter Typhoon prototype I saw flying during a visit to BAe Warton.

I also bought the deAgostini pre-painted version of IMAI's 1:144 Thunderbird 2 with two pods and all the vehicles.

This was all pre-airbrush! Now that I can do it justice, I just ordered a 1:144 Thunderbird 1 kit to go with it.