{"id":1,"date":"2019-01-29T18:34:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T18:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/\/?p=1"},"modified":"2026-01-13T16:14:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:14:46","slug":"first-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/29\/first-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hi I&#8217;m Joe, the scale model guy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I chose the site name: scaleModelGuy.com, for many, many reasons. The most compelling being that all the better names were taken and yeah, I do like building scale models.<br>You can check out my projects and reviews from the vertical picture menu at right (below for mobile).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of you may wonder if I&#8217;ve pilfered much of my content from Foobuggy.com.<br>Yes I did.<br>But it&#8217;s OK.<br>I was the Foobuggy.com guy too. <br><br>Foobuggy was my personal site and was being overrun with model building ramblings and posts and not surprisingly, cat and foliage pictures weren&#8217;t a big hit with the scale modeling community.<br>Changes had to be made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you visit a few of my project pages you may see a fair number of them are 3D printed models that I&#8217;ve built with either my Ender 3 Pro or Da Vinci Mini printers (Edit: I&#8217;ve added: LD-002r &amp; Saturn resin printers). 3D printing will likely be either the death or future of the scale model building hobby.<br>Probably both.<br>Today&#8217;s manufactures may struggle and fail, while the hobbyists thrive.<br>Change is inevitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, it&#8217;s a great time to be a modelist! <br>Hope you like the new site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joe &#8211; the SMG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*** <strong>PLEASE, <strong>PLEASE<\/strong><\/strong>, <strong>PLEASE  NOTE ! ! ! ***<\/strong><br>All comment and forum posting has been disabled due to crazy quantities of advert spam. (Mostly coming from a country I will not name due to my great respect for Natasha Romanov) <br>It may look like you can post, the site may even let you waste hours typing all manner of praise for my tiny plastic art works, but when you click submit&#8230; Nada. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi I&#8217;m Joe, the scale model guy. I chose the site name: scaleModelGuy.com, for many, many reasons. The most compelling being that all the better names were taken and yeah, I do like building scale models.You can check out my projects and reviews from the vertical picture menu at right (below for mobile). Some of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/29\/first-post\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","iawp_total_views":96,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-charles-martel-water-color"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5949,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/5949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}