Just wish to bring this to a close & let you decide if I’m genuine or a scammer & move on.
Yes, I have been a TC member since 2006 & would describe myself as casual – last car I built was THAT TL01-RA - mainly because it was on sale at Modelsport & had a finished body as I suck at painting. Since then have had few opportunities to build, race or even tinker, but have enjoyed this site as a dreamer.
I have appreciated the broad mix of members that seems to accept most types – racers, collectors, bashers, scratch builders, archivists, etc & lived vicariously through their stories.
Ultimately I probably just lack focus (or plain lazy), so whilst I’ve had ideas not got round to it (including building all F2 cars as my first car was a Ralt – hence my stash of parts).
Over past couple of decades I have been lucky enough to acquire some stunning examples from other members that are way beyond my limited abilities (e.g. JennyMo’s STUMPscorcher, Rad’s Hilux & Singleseven’s FAV Willy). I don’t feel I have had any right to post these as not my own work, but do enjoy admiring such wonderful examples & recommend you seek out their work.
I don’t race & as already mentioned have had little time to even tinker, so don’t think I have anything of interest to add to threads – sure, I could post “Wow” or “Great” to up my post count, but not sure that’s adding much & goes against my natural introverted nature. I’m sure there are many members like me & accept I’m not a big contributor in content, but have done deals with members to allow them to complete jobs or provide funds for another project.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion & once again only writing this as the thread has become a permanent matter of record for my ID, so should another opportunity arise, don’t want another member to just assume I’m a scammer based on this.
As final point to hopefully help clear my name, sharing picture of F2 parts with Sunday Times paper to provide some evidence that I at least had these to trade, even if any deal now seems unlikely