Just a sweet barbarian from barbaric Bavaria...

[PortCharmers]

Please allow me to introduce myself…
…I’m a man of wealth and taste (well, taste at least, although, come to think of it, probably everyone thinks they have good taste). My name is Peter, I’ve travelled around the sun 40 times now, my  home is at the foothills of the Bavarian alps. Real life scientist, model maker, motorcycle enthusiast, guitar player, cinema projectionist.
I’ve been into science, technology and old-fashioned things as long as I can remember, don’t know why, growing up with GEO Magazine and the German Museum (Deutsches Museum) in Munich may have been contributing factors. I started making models at age 10, moving from plastic kit-sets towards scratch-building things, especially ships. What I found particularly refreshing about scratch-building is the fact that one is not limited by the market’s offerings, but can concentrate on the more unknown and oddball originals, or even dump the idea of an original all together and get creative. Nowadays my inspiration  comes from vintage tin toy models, which are not true scale models, but more caricaturesque, with deliberately simplified details. I don’t know how I remained oblivious of your kind of table top gaming for so long, but I enjoy the style and creativity of much of what I see here.
Apart from model-making I am into motorcycles (my dad’s fault), and apart from riding, dreaming, planning custom projects and exploring the technical oddities of old, I am currently restoring my first bike (a 1985 Yamaha SR 500). And if that’s not enough, I am part of a volunteer society running an old cinema (containing one of the few remaining operational pairs of Bauer B 8 Projectors; these are still using carbon arc lamps and have to be toggled between reels every twenty miutes).
Let’s see how I fit in and if I can contribute some old-fashioned-technology-buff and model-boating expertise.

Cheers
Peter

[Anna Elizabeth]

Hi and Welcome! You certainly have diverse interests, you'll fit right in around here.

[Glitzer]

Just out of interest: Are you a real life scientist or a real life scientist?

[PortCharmers]

Thanks for the welcome and sorry for the late reply.
I studied biology, my main subject (and subsequent PhD) was ecology, subsidiaries in botany, zoology and paleontology. That makes me a real life-scientist, although at the moment, I am not working in my field, so I am not a real-life scientist (for now).

[magokiron]

Welcome to LAF Peter.

Your fan of interests may find good application within the hobby, and certaily you'll fit here nicely.

May you hae a long and merry stay with us.

[zizi666]

Welcome !

[Glitzer]

  Oh no, not another one of those Bavarian ecologists.

At least it looks like you found a job. I'm back at university and study a second oddball science.

Oh, and sorry for forgetting to welcome you to the board in my first reply.

Hawadere Peter!

[PortCharmers]

How do you mean? You make it appear as though we were some sort of flood. And as for the job I'm in, I didn't find it, I made it (i.e. I'm self-employed, doing all sorts of stuff, from gardening to mold-removal, to carpentry and model-making).
What kind of oddball-science are you up to?

[Glitzer]

No there's so flood. I guess there's only the two of us. I was a silviculturist who specialized in wildlife ecology and geoinformatics, and had to find out that those are both pretty useless specialisations for a forester. I'm learning scientific computing now ... or at least I should do so. But I found I'm way to talented at Anglo-Saxon and early German to let those talents go to waste. So now I ended up with learning bioinformatics, archeology of the neolithic and the linguistics of ancient Germanic languages at the same time.