Hey all, I'm a new member here and I've been reading through this thread and enjoying it for a few days prior to joining.
At 53 I'm probably longer in the tooth than most everyone here; if not all. I'm married, w/ 2 kids (teenagers!
).
I remember on the exact day of my 11th birthday, July 20, 1969, watching the Apollo 11 mission on a big b/w TV in the auditorium of my elementary school. I don't remember details of what facet of the mission we were watching exactly, but I can probably figure it out with a bit of research, as it was morning west coast time. I remember everyone was making a big deal about what was going on on the tube, even though I was rather clueless at the time.
Anyway, ever since I guess I've always had a thing for the Apollo missions, and for that period in history during which a shining America was arguably at her peak--the glory days of the 60s through the early 70s.
Recently, after watching Apollo 18, I remembered that plastic model kit of the LM (Apollo 11?) that I had built and crudely painted in '69. The nostalgia juices began to flow--as they so often do to cause us to become collector nuts--and the next thing I knew I was scouring the net for a LM model.
It wasn't long before I came across this forum at the same time that I was ordering Dragon's 1/48 scale LM from Flying Mule, along with the 2011 Armstrong figure. I just received the package today, in fact, but haven't even opened it yet. It'll probably be the weekend before I can dive into the assembly; I'll have to have the tweezers handy from what I've been reading here. I appreciate all the reference help and tips you guys put forth here; I'll need it!
By the way, as some may be able to guess from my username, I'm also a big Star Trek fan of TOS (The Original Series, for you non-Trek folks).
Anyway, enough of my rambling. I just wanted to introduce myself. I hope you all keep posting here. I'll try to do the same and post pics once I have something worthy to show off.
At 53 I'm probably longer in the tooth than most everyone here; if not all. I'm married, w/ 2 kids (teenagers!
).I remember on the exact day of my 11th birthday, July 20, 1969, watching the Apollo 11 mission on a big b/w TV in the auditorium of my elementary school. I don't remember details of what facet of the mission we were watching exactly, but I can probably figure it out with a bit of research, as it was morning west coast time. I remember everyone was making a big deal about what was going on on the tube, even though I was rather clueless at the time.
Anyway, ever since I guess I've always had a thing for the Apollo missions, and for that period in history during which a shining America was arguably at her peak--the glory days of the 60s through the early 70s.
Recently, after watching Apollo 18, I remembered that plastic model kit of the LM (Apollo 11?) that I had built and crudely painted in '69. The nostalgia juices began to flow--as they so often do to cause us to become collector nuts--and the next thing I knew I was scouring the net for a LM model.
It wasn't long before I came across this forum at the same time that I was ordering Dragon's 1/48 scale LM from Flying Mule, along with the 2011 Armstrong figure. I just received the package today, in fact, but haven't even opened it yet. It'll probably be the weekend before I can dive into the assembly; I'll have to have the tweezers handy from what I've been reading here. I appreciate all the reference help and tips you guys put forth here; I'll need it!
By the way, as some may be able to guess from my username, I'm also a big Star Trek fan of TOS (The Original Series, for you non-Trek folks).
Anyway, enough of my rambling. I just wanted to introduce myself. I hope you all keep posting here. I'll try to do the same and post pics once I have something worthy to show off.
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