About me

Name:: Michael Handley
Nickname:: Virgil
Country:: Australia
Town:: Queanbeyan
Member since:: January 28, 2020
Communities:: scalemates.com (Scale modeling)
papermates.net (Paper modeling)
gundammates.com (Gundam modeling)
railwaymates.com (Train modeling)
diecastmates.com (Completed models)
rcmates.net (RC modeling)

My cousin got me started with model planes many years ago in the 1960's, then we moved on to tanks. At 18 I moved out and moved to Sydney for work (1979), and it wasn't until my marriage finished in 2002 that I began to get back into models.

Since 2002 I have moved into the air brush world, and have been using that updating some that I still had from the 1970's. I've also completed my first wooden ship the 'Jolie Brise', and am about to start my first ship in a bottle. In the mean time I am part way through a 1:350 Revel model of the Tirpitz, and Alitalia 1:9 model Kettenkrad, and a 1:48 Glencoe model Spad biplane.

I'm enjoying all the new products and paints, which makes modeling so much more exciting, and good results so much more achievable.