So im sure it’s no secret that most use more than one site. So I was wondering if any new members from you know where are now here??? We need ya! Give a shout out!
From FSM but not new,been here since 2006
Welcome aboard,a great site here,i know of a few FSM members here too
I came here around a year ago (or something like that) because of a mention on some site could have been FSM. or maybe somewhere else. Hey lately I’m doing good to remember what day it actually is.
Still a member at FSM but couldn’t log in several years ago because of their system change or my old computer so I stopped posting there. Been here and there since 2004.
Never been FSM forum member but I do belong to couple off other modeling forums but lately I’m finding myself here more and more. Great group of guys and very active site. Every day there is something new.
Hello!
I’m still checking FSM out, but sadly that forum seems to slowly die… @Builder2010 talked me into joining here a few months ago and here at least something is happeninng. How posting pictures works here could be a major selling point for many people.
Pity, FSM used to be a great “place” to hang around back in the day.
Have a nice day!
Paweł
Ahh, nice to see you again! I recently finish a PE ship, USS Missouri and now ready for a plastic to practice ab. I too tried again FSM - disappointed in the way it’s falling apart. The posting of images& following of topics works great here. I wish we could get more to come over. They have a great lot of knowledge there in their followers. Good day & thanks for posting!
Posted a few times on Fine Scale Modeler but the forum was pretty dead several years ago. Still visit it occasionally.
Like Pawet, who suggested that I join KitMaker Forums, I am also a Finescale refugee. I started going there in the summer or early fall of 2019, when I was just getting started again, something like 61 years after building my first model ca. July, 1958. Finescale is a puzzle. Even in retirement, I don’t have time to play their silly games. I’d rather build models than wait for their site to open, and I’m just not going to bother ever again with the hassle of uploading images the Finescale way.
I met Pawet in the Finescale forum when he volunteered to do the art which I could use as a logo for a Vietnam-era UH-34 D Sea Horse helicopter flown by the Lucky Red Lions Squadron. Here’s his logo, based on one of the squadron’s early designs:
The Sea Horse fit right into my building interests. I prefer to build models of planes and ships that I either have learned a lot about or have actually flown or sailed on. I flew on Marine Corps Lucky Red Lions Sea Horses several times in Vietnam. One flew me into combat in Operation Utah in March, 1966; the next day one evacuated me to a field hospital after I was seriously wounded. After emergency first aid, another Sea Horse (or the same one) flew me to the hospital ship U.S.S. Repose for surgery; two or three days later yet another Sea Horse (or one of the same ones) started me on my long evacuation to the States by taking me from Repose to Da Nang. Here’s a photo of my Sea Horse model:
My first and only ship model so far, as an adult builder, was the old Revell U.S.S. Repose hospital ship. Repose was a Haven-class ship, so I did a bit of kit bashing to turn Haven into Repose. What a terrible model!
I wish I could do another, and undo some of my errors (and add some decent weathering, which I now understand a bit better), but I don’t think I have the patience. The Repose model included a very badly done model of a Sea Horse. It barely looked like a Sea Horse, and was about half the size it needed to be, so I scratch-built one:
Bob Ingraham
Vancouver
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Welcome to the forum Bob!
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Welcome aboard Bob. Good looking H-34. 
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Looking good ! I’m afraid no more FSM for me - can’t even get on - and even if I did , posting of pics was a torture.
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Very interesting story to go along with the helicopter Bob- also welcome to Armorama!
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