Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2014 21:18:53 GMT -5
Hello, fellow "Open Wheel Modelers" ! My name is John and I live in northeast Florida. I use to be an avid F1 modeler in the 90's, but due to marriage (happy) and corporate life I kind of got away from it. I did, however, continue building military armor kits. It's a big transition, because as many of you probably know, building tanks is a much different discipline; they're dirtier !! 
I was hoping to find, upon my return to building F1 kits, that there would be a plethora of aftermarkets detail sets (like the thousands for military tanks), but from my initial googling for such F1 detail sets, I haven't found much. I was hoping to find parts for various Tamiya 1/20 scale. Back in the day, Cody Grayland machined several parts for me, both for my 1/20 and 1/12 scale Tamiya F1 kits. I am hoping to learn a lot, share some of my builds in progress, as well, as ask who are the companies offering excellent F1 machined parts/photoetch for the Tamiya 1/20 kits....oh, I also wanted to add that I loved building the Tamiya 1/20 Indy car kits (2 of them); I certainly wish Tamiya would have offered more of those. I tried several resin kits back in the day, but I didn't find them well designed (hoping that has changed too).
Again, I'm looking forward to watching your builds, conversing with all of you, learning, and sharing !!
John
I was hoping to find, upon my return to building F1 kits, that there would be a plethora of aftermarkets detail sets (like the thousands for military tanks), but from my initial googling for such F1 detail sets, I haven't found much. I was hoping to find parts for various Tamiya 1/20 scale. Back in the day, Cody Grayland machined several parts for me, both for my 1/20 and 1/12 scale Tamiya F1 kits. I am hoping to learn a lot, share some of my builds in progress, as well, as ask who are the companies offering excellent F1 machined parts/photoetch for the Tamiya 1/20 kits....oh, I also wanted to add that I loved building the Tamiya 1/20 Indy car kits (2 of them); I certainly wish Tamiya would have offered more of those. I tried several resin kits back in the day, but I didn't find them well designed (hoping that has changed too).
Again, I'm looking forward to watching your builds, conversing with all of you, learning, and sharing !!
John
