SCALE MODEL ADDICT - The rock n' roll scale modeling show!

This week we meet Ken, better known as ScaleModelMadman on the forum. Everyone say, "Hi Ken!"

This month we meet Patrick aka Quaralane

What is your user name on the forum? Quaralane

Where you live? (City, Province/State, Country) Midvale, Utah, USA (part of the Salt Lake City area)

What do you do for a living? Auto parts shipping and recieving

What is your age? 44, be 45 in December

Married? Single? Children? Divorced (but still get along with my ex-wife) One child, son, 16

When did you start building models? At 8 or 9, started with a car, then moved on to a Corsair, the AMT Enterprisae, and a B-17

Fondest modelling memory: Going to Wonderfest 2010 with my son. (The Merit award I won with my Solaria Viper MkII didn't hurt)

If you have recently 'got back' to the hobby, what brought you back? Actually never left for long, so, I've been doing this for a long time. Although it wasn't until recently that I started entering my models in contests

What types of models do you build? Mostly sci-fi (especially Star Trek), but I also do aircraft, cars, figures, and some wargaming miniatures. Have done some armor, but mostly for wargaming

What is your favorite part of the build? Raw construction and planning, I think

What part do you struggle with the most? Weathering/finishing. Only recently started weathering my models on a regular basis. Still getting past the "black wash is all you need" phase, but I'm getting there. Always willing to look at different techniques

What is your dream project? 1/350 USS Odysseus from the Refit kit Battlestar Solaria (from the Moebius Kit) 1/32 CF-37A Starstreak (one of my own designs)

What other hobbies do you have? I do 3d work in Poser. I write some Sci-fi. I'm also an avid fan of Football (NFL, AFL, US College) In the past, I also used to draw comic-style figures by hand. But, they all started to look alike.

Do you have any pets? Only if you count the stuffed variety. A lion from "Build a Bear" that I named KITT, Gizmo the Mogwai A stuffed purple dragoin named "Lockheed"

Please describe your 'mancave'. Going to be honest here, my mancave is my bedroom. It has my computer, TV, DVD player, workbench, and my models displayed all over.

What is your favorite tool? Easy, my Dremel Stylus. Primarily because I can use it to do a LOT.

What motivates you to build models? Mostly the need to create. I see things that I like in various sources, and then I want to build them. Once I get a project started, it's mostly a desire to see it finished.

What music (if any) do you listen to when you model? I'll listen to a lot of different things, depending mostly on what I'm building. But sometimes, the music's just on to have the background going. Movie soundtracks, Styx (lots of Styx), Ozzy/Sabbath, and a little bit of everything else (except rap/current top 40), although I don't own a lot of country, either

Have you always been a Sci-Fi builder? Pretty much. One of the first models I wanted to build as a kid was the old AMT USS Enterprise kit. It took four tries to get one to actually stay together way back then.

Do you fly your models around the room and make phaser sounds? --chuckles-- Guilty as charged. Phaser sounds, engine sounds, gun sounds. All of the above. Sometimes, I'll even play out little 'stories' in my mind as I work on them.

Have you ever used your airbrush as a hairdryer? Nope. Not that it would do much good with the mane of hair I have.

Have you ever borrowed' modeling supplies from a family member? Mostly in the form of nail files, and really the small scissors out of an old hair trimming kit. And I also used to borrow my son's Legos for mold boxes.