I spent a time in UK and lost my initial nick and login, that´s why my profile says Joined:
11 Jul, 2003 - 19:26
I found it while in University (in 1997 Internet was rarely a home fixture), I had been looking for info about the SMER Alfa. I found f1m and the first thing I did was sending a list of the plastic F1 models I knew of. For quite long, I read whenever I entered:
"James B Cabanes has contributed with a plastic F1 model list!"
of which, needless to say, I was particularly smug and proud.
I knew dozens of amazing people, some still I have contact with.
Call me Flanders, but I still think this is a marvelous community. And we all gotta thank the many people that have contributed (some are modeling in heaven now) keep contributing but above all, super Eric who has kept this running against all kind of hurdles sometimes.
Modelim itself has changed soooo much. At F1m birth, we had just passes a really hard winter of F1 modeling with Tamiya´s dry spell and that would keep intermitently going on. Though we had just discovered fantastic things such as S27 resin kits or Japan shops such as Hobby Link. Before that, me, personally, only had going to the shop to see what was there
BIG THANKS!!! let´s keep modeling!
! This must be one of the longest living Hobby-sites. Thx for Moderators.
