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The greatest influence on my model building life

Great video

As a teenage kid in the UK ,making models in the 70s ,seeing Shep Paine's dioramas in the US model magazines was magical. I still remember the Tamiya Hanomag diorama. Thanks Shep.RIP.

One of the greatest influence in my modeling building life as a teenager to the present day.

The pamphlet you held up in the intro with the B-17 largely influenced my direction for model making, and to hear that it was most likely done in a week is astounding. Thank you so much for sharing this interview, it was very informative and a neat insight into the life of someone I've never met, but who had a profound influence on my love of the hobby, Cheers, Brett.

Paine with Verlinden was my reference modeller

I still have a letter reply he sent me when i was very young. I am 60 now.

My first was the Monogram Patton Tank. The kit was a dream to build and the fascinating booklet by Shep Paine included hooked me into building as a kid. I can remember the photo of the Patton model box top had one of the tracks on backwards

the panzer grenadiers jumping from the half-track....

We had him do a couple of seminars on figure painting. He was an interesting character and had plenty of tales. He's really missed in the modeling community.

Thank you Dennis 👍

Gold

The "GRAND POBA" one of the reason why I love the hobby so much.

I love this video

Great interview. Cheers.

The diorama king. RIP Shep.

I know I'm late to the party, but hey, thanks for this wonderful interview with one of my very favorite scientists. To answer his fascinating question (from my Ayn Randian perspective), I think the ethical message is very much like his Hepburn movie quote that "nature is what we must rise above". Our niche isn't instinct, it's _thought._ We're the only ones on this planet with both the need and the ability - therefore with the moral imperative - to identify our best and worst survival strategies so as to make us more capable of living and to make our lives more worth the effort. That lesson can be drawn from evolution, but also from zoology of the present day, and really _any_ day. The nutshell is that we have the choice, and nature demands that we choose well.

I still have several of the diorama pamphlets from the Monogram kits-- the kits not having survived as long! Made me realize this was indeed a "serious" hobby!

Shep was a good friend of my dad, Bob Letterman. My dad passed away last year and we still have a couple of Shep's dioramas.

Excellent. Sid Myers' Pirates I once pulled off a raid and caught both the fleet and the train. Small glitch or program error, got gold from both. How much does that clump weigh?

Thanks for this. As a child I watched Mr. Roger’s neighborhood and the opening had a miniature neighborhood. I’ve been building ever since and Shep was a huge influence.

Everything that is the hobby of scale plastic modelling today owes its lineage to Shep Paine. He’s the one that started it all.

Bought many a series of armor kits and made dioramas because of him l. Great man and great artist.

I'm 62 now, and the main reason that I'm still into model building today is Shep Paine's influence. I was 13 in 1973, and - like so many boys in Junior High at the time - was seriously thinking about getting out of model building. But I decided that I would build one more kit, and went to K-Mart to get one. I settled on the Monogram 1/32 scale Panzer IV partly because of the pictures of Shep Paine's diorama on the side. But when I saw the Diorama Tip Sheet inside, it gave my interest a shot in the arm. My dad cut me a 1' square piece of plywood, gave me some spackle, and the rest as they say was history! I owe Mr. Paine a real debt of gratitude for that. Sadly, I never got to meet The Man, himself. But I joined IPMS Gateway Chapter when I was 15, and I got to meet Bob Letterman. A few years later, Mr. Letterman introduced me to Francois Verlinden, who was visiting the local hobby shop one day I was there. Thanks for posting this interview. This is literally the first time I've heard Mr. Paine speaking.

Wonderful interview of a creative genius, Sheperd Paine. Generations of modelers around the world are indebted to Shep for his inspirational work and instructional insights. Thank you.

He sounds so much like Richard Nixon for those of us old enough to remember him.

His Alamo diorama was awesome .

Ethical, ethical, no. Not at all, most likely worse.

Robert Bakker is absolutely brilliant. He is so profound, I am taken aback. Would love to meet him at Whiteside one day. When are you going up?

It was Sheperd Paine, François Verlinden, and Ray Anderson who inspired me to model the diorama when I was twelve years old. I never stopped. Thanks for sharing. Cheers ~ Boomer.

I got lucky to meet him at Montreux miniature show in Switzerland a few years ago. He was invited as a guest Star with Bill Horan ! Two modeling masters at a time I actually could meet, how fortunate I was to get answers to a few painting techniques I had and how nice and humble these guys are... He was such an inspiration, too early gone...

I used to buy model tank kits from Monogram and would try to create dioramas as suggested by Shepard Paine starting in the early 1970's. I really admired his work and learned so much from him. I once won a model diorama contest when I was about 11 or 12 years old by following his instructions that were included with the model tank kit. The model tank I had built for the contest was a World War II German Flakpanzer tank.

wonderfull interview, thanks

"Keep it fun" - Best advice for the hobby.

I didn't build armor during the Monogram heyday, but since that time I found Shep to be an inspiration and leading light. That P-61 in a week amazes us all.

Thankfully my Mom was able to laminate those Monogram Pamphlets. They are a treasure to this day. I still marvel at the B-17 example you show. I also love the Wirbelwind captured at Arnhem. I have had his book "How to Build Dioramas" since I was a kid and love it. He was a tremendous influence in my young life and I'm still amazed by his work.

I had stopped building kits for some time. I picked up his book on dioramas and haven't stopped since.

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How did it explode? It's called the INTERNET!! Is what mad it happen. Just like everything else. Like UFO's, dogman, Bigfoot, and everything else. You can hear a story from a person that lives in Colorado thats never left Colorado in his life. At the same time you live in Michigan and have never left that state during your whole life either. The INTERNET its made it possible to hear/ witness information you never would of heard of otherwise. The INTERNET has truly made the world a lot smaller.

I met Mr. Paine at a hobby store event in Toronto (Hornet Hobbies to be exact) and listened intently as he gave a highly informative seminar on his models, methods, and overall philosophy of model building. He very kindly autographed several of the books he had authored and was very pleasant to speak to. My first exposure to his work was in, of all places, Sports Illustrated specifically the article 'It's a Small World/Jan 5 1976' which talks about the hobby of scale model building and how Shep Paine was one of its exceptional practitioners. At the event, I mentioned this to him and he jokingly commented that while being far from an athlete he had made it into SI while his varsity classmates had not! Great interview - do you have more?

I used to stare for hours at those incredible diorama brochures as a kid.

This video is good. But there is a dissonance right away with the introduction of japanese culture, then it whips away to spanish galleons. If you had covered a previous video about japanese culture, I would have added a footnote and a link to another video. Stop looking at the screen when you're reciting. Look at the camera, and inform the audience as you would in a presentation. You have a good voice, and good presentation, but it shouldn't be edited as much as you have. The illustrations are amazing, showing on screen what you are reciting. This should be a staple on your stream. Lastly, although the filler track is upbeat, a more appropriate filler would be ropes creaking, or softer, slower background music to imitate the tone of the sea. Keep up the good work, and amazing storytelling.

Shep was a good friend of my father and I. He really inspired me to create.

Dang ! P -61 dio in a week !

If you don't have a copy of this man's book, "How to build dioramas", get one. No matter what it takes. This is one of the true masters of the hobby.

Shep is responsible for my vast model collection. The man was a tremendous influence on me. Those pamphlets in monogram kits were fascinating so much so I've collected them all.

When I started building and painting Historex models over 50 years ago Shepherd Paine was an inspiration. I still look at his figures in awe and admiration.

This is wonderful, I really wish I could have met him.

I love it!