Hi all, Michael here -- I found this website through an IPMS member who answered a question I had posted on the IPMS board regarding painting to simulate leather. He highly recommended looking at Mongo Mel's work and posted a link to here. I took a look through the gallery, saw there was some very good figure modelers here and decided to stay. It appears that most here do miniature figures, 150mm and smaller, where I prefer much larger 1/4, 1/5 and 1/6 and so on. I have only recently begun figures. My history has been with military subjects (mostly WWII aircraft, usually in 1/48). I got too caught up in the 'rivet counter' fever where there seemed to be only two levels of work, perfect or failure. I started dabbling sci-fi where there is a greater amount of leeway, but still wasn't satisfied with results. I started reading Amazing Figure Modeler and Kitbuilder magazines (don't get me started on Kitbuilder...) and found this a lot more to my liking. Unfortunately I am somewhat right back in the rivet counter mindset where nothing I do looks as good as the other guys, but I'm working on it.

Welcome here Michael!
And dont you worry there are some rivet counting going on here as well.

Cheers
Janne Nilsson

Michael,
Welcome and do stay a while.
Cheers
John

Welcome aboard Michael

I can relate to the rivet counting mindset, it is a paralysis. Once broken free of it, I can start things, finish things AND enjoy it!

Have a great visit and many more!

"Rivets? Rivets? We don't need no a-stinkin' rivets!!"

Well a couple on Frankenstein's head maybe and sorta like rivets on German helmets, but other than that, no - no rivets.

Welcome Michael! I'm just across the river in Omaha. Enjoy!

Dan

Hello and welcome!.....I am glad to see a fellow Iowan here on the board. You will like this forum.

(Quad cities here also)

Hi Michael,

Welcome to Planet Figure. I hope you enjoy your stay and show us some photos of some of your models.

Great welcome Michael.
Hope we see some work of you without rivets.

marc

Welcome Michael.