Hear, hear! :-)
On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 7:22 AM, Erik te Groen <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear group, > > For quite a long time, I have posted very few messages. Paper modeling in > general no longer playes a big role > in my life, like it did some ten or twelve years ago. > > But after receiving another great email from people like Bob Penikas, along > with some stunning pictures, I just > felt the need to put him in the foreground and give him praise for all the > hard work. > For many, many years, Bob has been the most consistent modeler to upload > pictures of his work, for our > eyes to feast on. > Actually, his regular upload of his work is a constant reminder for me to > stay active in the paper model world. > People still build paper models and since paper modeling became much more > easily accessible thanks to > internet, the quality of the drawings have improved, as well. With a growing > number of clients the need for > more and better models grew. I think the internet has been a useful addition > to the world of paper modeling. > > Where paper models were rarely available for free, before internet, the > digital version of our hobby has made > a huge variety of many free models availabe to anyone with an internet > connection and a printer. > > One of those people who uses that privilege to the max is Bob. There are > MANY paper modelers out there, some > of them are truly fanatic. But to me, Bob simply stands out. He builds a > large variety of models. Anything that > flies, sails, runs, moves, drives and what else..... He builds it all. > AND...... he shares his work with us on a regular > basis. And if I remember correctly, he sometimes gives his models away. > Beautiful gesture. Beautiful models, too. > He really builds them with care and attention and it shows. > > Bob Penikas is not the only one I wish to thank. There are many others out > there who make this great forum > possible and are trying hard to keep it up and running and healthy. > > Big thanks to you all. > > Please join me, raise your glass and say cheers to Bob !! > He deserves it !! > > > Regards, > > Erik. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Papermodels II" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Mike Hungerford http://www.chthulhu.com/models.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
