Hi everybody,
My name is Andreas, I am 35 years old and life in the central south of Germany (around 40km away from Stuttgart). I am married and together we have two wunderful kids.
My dark ages ended for about 4 years when I was at christmas shopping for our daughter at a local toystore. The shop had displayed some Lego Star Wars models, and I was fascinated from the amount of detail and the likeness of the models to the original ships, because I love building Lego at my childhood.
A few weeks later I bought the UCS shuttle, the Tantive IV and the Millenium Falcon just for fun and because it was christmas. As soon I had build the models I was reinfected with the Lego virus and a new hobby was born.
First I was collecting sets of different themes (Star Wars mainly UCS, Harry Potter, Modular houses,...), but after some time I started to build own creations.
Up to now collecting sets become more and more secondary. I only buy the current UCS and the Modulars and maybe some sets that really fascinating me. My main focus goes to Lego Town and Trains.
Since two years I build a Lego Town Layout around the Modular houses with running trains in my basement. With that I fullyfied me a dream of my childhood.
Soon I will post some pics here, but if you are interested in, you can check my flickr page if you want:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/131165214@N04/albums
Beside building Lego, I have another passion in painting historical and fantasy model figures and busts with acrylics in a 1:35, 1:30 and 1:10 scale. So I am not completly new in scale modelling. As I perform this hobby for over ten years on a more or less semi proffessional way, I learned a lot of classic art things, colour theory and conception which are also very usefull for building with Lego.
If you are interested in, you can check here:
http://www.puttyandpaint.com/Feanor
Thats it from myself for this time.
Thanks for reading
Regards
Andreas