About my blog

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This blog is a collection of my research notes from my model building hobby.   I am only trying to provide fellow modelers, war gamers  and historians interesting photos and details/facts on subjects for models which I had built, currently building or going to build someday.   Since I am not a professional author, my posts are not meant to be complete articles and I am not writing a book on the subject.     The sources for my posts usually are from various books and internet websites/forums where I had to sort through all the incorrect and misleading information.   Also I found a number of non-captioned photos on the internet.

Model building has been my hobby for the past 50+ years and I am an avid reader of military history.   My interests are of World War II, Korean War, Indochina, Vietnam, Middle East Wars, Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom.   I like to build armor, aircraft (mostly early jets today)  and some Sci-fiction/space subjects in most scales but today I tend to build 1/48 scale most often.   When I build a model, I like to know the history behind the subject.

I do have a full time job and have been working with computers for the pass 35+ years.   Setting up and maintaining this blog came easy for me.    From my experiences, I say “the internet is not forever” because websites are either restructured, have missing files or just disappear completely over time.    It also applies to this blog.   At this time, I am the sole person posting to this blog.   I do not know how long I will be doing it or if someone will take over in the future.

An example of “the internet is not forever”.   I search the Youtube website for interesting Films and Videos on the subject.   I add links to these Films and Videos to my posts.   These links work when I published my posts but months or years later Youtube removes these Films/Videos because the Youtube account who posted them are no longer active.   This is why I add a link to the Youtube site instead of embedding the Youtube film/Video in my posts.

This website (blog) is hosted at WordPress.com and its functionality is fixed but I selected the images, color scheme, fonts and added some available features (widgets) to my blog.

My Beginnings:

Since February 2011, I have been “hanging out” on the Track48 forum.    Over the years, I posted a number of articles and conversed with many great guys around the world.    In April 2018, the forum changed their host service.    All my earlier posts are still there but some of the formatting was lost during the migration and some of my earliest posts have some missing images.    I still have all the info/materials for my earlier posts and over time I will rework some of them to post on this blog.   Creating this blog is my way of “going public” plus I have better control over my posts and I receive more information about the posts.   I still “hang out” on the Track48 forum as it is like my local bar (pub).

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10 thoughts on “About my blog”

  1. I every time spent my half an hour to read this blog’s articles or reviews daily
    along with a mug of coffee.

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  2. I think the admin of this site is in fact working hard in favor of his web site, for the reason that here every stuff is quality based data.

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  4. Thanks for sharing your passion. Sharing like you do tell a lot about you. Although my interest is not with armor but planes I am willing to learn about them.

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  5. Hello, I’m looking to discover where you found the wonderful pictures of the M50 Sherman tanks. I would like to ask the owner permission to use a couple in a table top wargame book on the Arab / Israeli wars. Ant information would be most helpful. Sincerely, Kenny Noe

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  6. I am hugely impressed by all the work which goes into your Blogs – and I am particularly interested by the Sicily blog. I believe that my father was in Sicily in July 1943 though this is an inference from his letters home to my mother – of course he never said where he was. Would you be prepared to see the letters covering the relevant period and tell me what you think?

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  8. From my notes, I found that diagram on a website on the internet long time ago. When I wrote that post back in May 2018, I tried checking the website I noted and it no longer existed at that time. That is why I always save images from the internet whenever I find them and keep for possible future posts. That is why I say “The internet is not forever!”. I also found a lot photos on the internet that are incorrectly or not captioned.

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  9. Sharing knowledge is always a sign of a good guy, I am a modeller to but I love the diversity on your site, it makes me stepping out of my usual projects, I enjoyed the Guntruck piece so that’s next for me. All the best from Holland!! Cheers Rick

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