by VH-WAL » Sat Jun 28, 2014 9:23 pm
Good question with a multi part answer but I'll keep it brief.
I took this hobby back up again after a long hiatus about 11 years ago. I resumed where I left off several times , many years before, building war planes, props mostly but a few jets as well. I got kicked off track when I wanted to build the Grumman Albatross I few into Sydney Harbour in at the end of the London to Sydney Air Race, I had to modify the Monogram 1/72 jobbie to the Short Wing original version.. and I discovered I had fun doing the conversion work, but continued doing the "mainstream" 109s, zeros, P-47 etc etc etc in various scales. But then a couple of years later after grabbing hold of a Monogram C-47 from Bruce Anders I wanted to model a PNGDF version that I had many control dealings with in my time at Lae, That was my first foray into decal design and printing...that was it, the gate opened, the horse bolted and I started modelling aircraft I had controlled / touched, saw or just liked for whatever reason, mostly they have to be colourful and non mainstream ie stuff no-one else had done. There are some exceptions, I did a few aircraft of historical significance that were reasonably boring in markings
