Modelers' Alliance Modeler of the Month for December is
Gary Bachanan
(Old Dog)
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This has been a long time coming and well deserved. Gary is another well know figure on the modeling forums both with sharing his builds and his well done reviews. Gary was actually one of the first folks to give me advice on the proper way to solder way back when I started that brass halftrack. Gary exemplifies what it is to be a MotM at Modelers' Alliance as well as the modeling community online. He's a long time member of Modelers' Alliance and on our Review Crew, he's always in the mix for campaigns.
So let's give a big round of applause to Old Dog Gary Buchanan, Modeler of the Month December 2014.
Gary's not shy about lending a hand but it looks like he's shy about a head shot, he said he's in this picture somewhere but I can't get my eyes off that Bf109.
I'll let Gary tell us about his modeling history.
I don't remember exactly when I started building plastic models, I was more in to model trains early on, a hobby I'm still active in. My brother and I did weekend builds during my early teens, pick up a kit at the local five and dime on Friday night and have it finished by Sunday evening. Tube glue, hand painted and with lots of warts.
Late teens I got frustrated with hand painting and bought one of the early Badger single action things that used canned propellant. It always ran out in the middle of a paint job on Sunday. Early 70's Scale Modeler Magazine came out and put a whole new prospective on building models, for me anyway. Through most of the 70's my employers kept me busy working 60 hour weeks so I had precious little time for modeling but I continued collecting none the less.
When I got married in 1978 modeling pretty much stopped. No time, no space. Things got boxed up. I still read magazines and collected and dreamed. Around 2007 I got the bug again and now there was the internet and a whole new world of stuff, Future, PE, resin upgrades and kits I never knew existed. The more I searched the net the more frustrated I became trying to find information on kits that I was interested in. So as part of the getting back into the hobby and what I had hoped would give me some focus, I started my own web page, olddogsplanes.com, and ithas grown into almost a hobby of its own. Although it wasn't my original intention it has become more of a review site with several hundred reviews. Nothing special but it provides another persons opinion on kits. Unlike other sites I provide links to other reviews. Now days there are more sites with reviews popping up all the time. I feel it's one way of sharing my love for the hobby.
Although I have been at it for a while there are always new things to learn or relearn as it seems techniques that I thought I had mastered often fail me when I need them most. I doubt that I will live long enough to build everything I want to, but I'm sure going to give a shot.
Here are some of my favorite builds
First resin kit
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Gary Bachanan
(Old Dog)
/images/badges/motm/Modeler_Of_The_Month_Banner-1214_600.png
This has been a long time coming and well deserved. Gary is another well know figure on the modeling forums both with sharing his builds and his well done reviews. Gary was actually one of the first folks to give me advice on the proper way to solder way back when I started that brass halftrack. Gary exemplifies what it is to be a MotM at Modelers' Alliance as well as the modeling community online. He's a long time member of Modelers' Alliance and on our Review Crew, he's always in the mix for campaigns.
So let's give a big round of applause to Old Dog Gary Buchanan, Modeler of the Month December 2014.
Gary's not shy about lending a hand but it looks like he's shy about a head shot, he said he's in this picture somewhere but I can't get my eyes off that Bf109.
I'll let Gary tell us about his modeling history.
I don't remember exactly when I started building plastic models, I was more in to model trains early on, a hobby I'm still active in. My brother and I did weekend builds during my early teens, pick up a kit at the local five and dime on Friday night and have it finished by Sunday evening. Tube glue, hand painted and with lots of warts.
Late teens I got frustrated with hand painting and bought one of the early Badger single action things that used canned propellant. It always ran out in the middle of a paint job on Sunday. Early 70's Scale Modeler Magazine came out and put a whole new prospective on building models, for me anyway. Through most of the 70's my employers kept me busy working 60 hour weeks so I had precious little time for modeling but I continued collecting none the less.
When I got married in 1978 modeling pretty much stopped. No time, no space. Things got boxed up. I still read magazines and collected and dreamed. Around 2007 I got the bug again and now there was the internet and a whole new world of stuff, Future, PE, resin upgrades and kits I never knew existed. The more I searched the net the more frustrated I became trying to find information on kits that I was interested in. So as part of the getting back into the hobby and what I had hoped would give me some focus, I started my own web page, olddogsplanes.com, and ithas grown into almost a hobby of its own. Although it wasn't my original intention it has become more of a review site with several hundred reviews. Nothing special but it provides another persons opinion on kits. Unlike other sites I provide links to other reviews. Now days there are more sites with reviews popping up all the time. I feel it's one way of sharing my love for the hobby.
Although I have been at it for a while there are always new things to learn or relearn as it seems techniques that I thought I had mastered often fail me when I need them most. I doubt that I will live long enough to build everything I want to, but I'm sure going to give a shot.
Here are some of my favorite builds
First resin kit
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