Hello and thanks!

[PhildaFish]

Reading through some of the welcome posts and it sounds like a Alcoholics Anonymous meeting!

Hello, my name's Phil and I'm a scale modeller... I guess it started like most people when I was a kid with an Airfix kit at Christmas and birthdays but soon I was enjoying a kit in school holidays and then most weekends were a blur of polysterene cement and enamel paints. Before I knew it, I was... addicted... In my teens I moved on to the harder stuff, Games Workshop, and all my time and money was devoted to it... Then my father told me I was too old to play with toys so I smashed all my model aeroplanes up and boxed up all my Warhammer and started drinking instead!
Then, a little over a year ago, after 20 years clean I suffered a severe back injury which meant I couldn't go running or kayaking anymore and was starting to get bored and restless when my son saw an Airfix display in a shop and asked if he could have one. We bought the Airfix Battle of Britain set. He deccided within half an hour that he wasn't enjoying it but I was hooked again!

Since then I have started my own website, Scale World. It began when I made a colour chart because I couldn't find any paint comparison charts for my 20+ year old Citadel Colours paints that I dug out of their box in the shed (they're all still as good as when I first bought them). Then I was asked about paint conversions by a colour blind modeller and so I made a special list of Humbrol paints organized by shade so he could see which was the darkest green or which one was a little lighter than number 30, for example. He was so impressed he told me I should make a website so that everyone could use the chart and so it began!

Anyway, my intro is already longer than all of the others put together but I want to say a quick thanks to Lee for mentioning my site in a post about colour charts - that's how I found my way here, on the web statistics "incoming links" - it'll be nice to in at the beginning of a great forum!

[schweinhund227]

Welcome Phil !


and I am an Addict ! LOL

feel right at home ! can't wait to see your stuff mate !

[Lee]

Now that's an intro! lol

Is this the same Phil from the ATF that I always got on with?

Great to have you aboard Phil and your colour conversion site is an excellent free resource for the whole community, a lot of work has gone into it, you should feel proud of it....

Welcome to ISM hope you enjoy your stay bud

[PhildaFish]

Thanks schweinhund227 and Lee! Nice to feel welcome! I am also a member of the ATF and use the same name on there; what's your screen name on there?

[Lee]

Jinja

[PhildaFish]

JINJA! Now I know who you are!

[Lee]

lol...

As I said before, glad you're here mate

[PhildaFish]

Thanks mate, glad to be here! Just posted a link to here on my new facebook page!

[Lee]

Thanks mate, glad to be here! Just posted a link to here on my new facebook page!

Beat me to my PM.....lol

Thanks buddy

[Paul]

Welcome Phil, great to have you on board

[PhildaFish]

Thanks Paul, great to be here!

[Fredrik64]

Welcome !

[Bagpiper]

OK Phil - You get a welcome even if you don't want one. I think your trying to be the first person in ISM to welcome every single person who joins us. Good for you mate. Don't want anyone not getting at least one welcome. And while your with us we're guaranteed that will happen. AWESOME mate

So get back to your plastic/facebook/modeling/ISM and see you around I'm sure.

Jim