A newbie and a introduction

[davesoda]

Hello all I'm new here and I thought I'd better introduce myself. My name is Dave I live in Australia and collect 1/50 mainly models.

Most are from my Father who worked at Caterpillar for 35 years. I to worked at Cat for a time in the spare parts division.

Anyways here is a picture of my collection.

If anyone has a NZG Cat 325 1/50 that is damaged I'm looking for the undercarrige to replace one on one of my models.



URL of the original image: http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x154/davesoda/Modelpics2012045.jpg

[Jeremy Rowland]

Hi Dave welcome to the site thats a nice collection that you have there. Hope you enjoy the site as much as the rest of us.

Jeremy

[niner]

Hi dave, welcome to the forum.

looks like you have a good sized collection there, some of those shelves have a slight bend in them! Be good to see some close up photos of the collection if you have any?

I see you also have some aircraft there? What do you collect? I collect modern military corgi diecast planes and helis. I have not long sold some to make way for new aircraft, some went to Aus!

[daz40]

Hi Dave hope you enjoy the site

[davesoda]

Thanks all for the comments, I'll post some close ups later on Martin I do collect planes they are my main hobby. I collect Miltary and Civilian aircraft. I'll post some pictures up iof you want to see them.

[niner]

Yeah be good to see close ups and some of the planes.

Without going too of topic from the construction stuff, I collected quite a lot of diecast planes but combining them and the construction stuff I was running out of anywhere to display them and Im not the sort to keep things boxed up in the back of a cupboard.

I live near a fast jet training base in North Wales so I now collect all the Hawk jets from there, they also have a Search and Rescue squadron there so I have all the SAR helis through the ages, Whirlwind, Wessex and the Sea King



I had a massive fleet of lightnings but sold them all off, most of them to a mate down the road so they're not too far away!

I also have a collection of Army helis and some Iconic planes that I used to see as a kid over home, one of the being the F111!

[Digga dan]

Hello mate welcome to the forum, nice looking collection you have there!!

[Holger]

Welcome to CMN!