Hi,

I was talking about Dave Johnson in my post. He has helped me out alot. Abu, I think you would like the dawn patrol fly in we have here in the midwest. Again, i am lucky to be in an area of the country with a lot of WWI modelers. I like all types of models but WWI is very near the top. Competition is not for everyone. I have a bit of a competitive streak in me. Not huge but I like to compete. There are many scale guys that build beautiful models (I have seen them in person and on RCU) that have no interest in competition. That is cool. There are also guys who go to the meets that are not serious competitors. They are just there to be with other scale modelers and fly a bit. That is cool too. My comments were directed at those who think scale competition might be fun but are intimidated at giving it a try as well as the regular competitors who would like to build the ranks at the contests. I may try competition and decide it is not for me. Then it will be fly in city for a while. I know I will not give up building and flying scale. It is just too much fun. I also look forward to promoting the hobby and helping out anyone interested in it. My reason for doing that are sort of selfish in that if I get another person involved that is just another source of scale models to admire.

I will not be going to top gun this year. I have only so many "travel points" to spend and for me Top Gun would eat up a lot of those points. I have been in the past though and it is a fun meet, at lest from a spectators point of view. I imagine it will be fun to compete some day too. It would be a honor to be invited. But that is down the road a way. I also want to say there is quite a bit of talent on this web site. I really enjoy following the build threads and seeing the clever techniques people develop to build their models.

Dave S.