Post by neckcheese on Jun 5, 2013 16:45:20 GMT -8
Hi, my name is Niels Elmholt Christensen, but some of you may know me as Neckcheese if your also visit slot car forums.
I am 58 years old and have been playing with model cars for most of my life, both static models, slot cars and R/C cars.
I have had a (too) busy working life, with demanding jobs, freelance translation (63 books) and rebuilding an old farmhouse etc - this combined with a restless mind, caused by disorders af ADHD, HSP etc have given me some knockouts, the latest in 2000 and 2005. I rose from the one in 2000 and some good years at the LEGO company, but barely survived the last one in 2005.
But I struggled on my legs in 2007 and after a divorce, a move and forced (disablement) retirement, I slowly began life again with a damaged brain, bad short time memory and bad concentration skills
Slot racing became a way of developing concentration skills again and I have continued to race until now and have had the pleasure of becoming multiple Danish Champion in some of the scale racing classes :-)
I also enjoy using my modelling skills on the scale classes of slot cars, and I can assure you that the best European scale racers build cars that could compete on top level in many static model car shows.
Today I am not totally recovered, but have found a way to live comfortably with my defects, partly thanks to a loving woman. We share the same house, me living on the ground floor and she upstairs, so we enjoy being together and also have to possibility be ourself when we want that - a super solution for us both :-)
nahh, back to business
I began building plastic models around 1960 and with some pauses in between, still build a model once in a while.
Currently I am having a hopefully short pause from racing due to health issues, so I am building static models in stead.
You are welcome to my web-site: racecars.dk/
and my Picasa site: picasaweb.google.com/118370469759275492557
My interest is primarely race cars from 1965-1972 with a few excursion on both sides. I prefer 1:24 scale
yours, Niels Elmholt
I am 58 years old and have been playing with model cars for most of my life, both static models, slot cars and R/C cars.
I have had a (too) busy working life, with demanding jobs, freelance translation (63 books) and rebuilding an old farmhouse etc - this combined with a restless mind, caused by disorders af ADHD, HSP etc have given me some knockouts, the latest in 2000 and 2005. I rose from the one in 2000 and some good years at the LEGO company, but barely survived the last one in 2005.
But I struggled on my legs in 2007 and after a divorce, a move and forced (disablement) retirement, I slowly began life again with a damaged brain, bad short time memory and bad concentration skills
Slot racing became a way of developing concentration skills again and I have continued to race until now and have had the pleasure of becoming multiple Danish Champion in some of the scale racing classes :-)
I also enjoy using my modelling skills on the scale classes of slot cars, and I can assure you that the best European scale racers build cars that could compete on top level in many static model car shows.
Today I am not totally recovered, but have found a way to live comfortably with my defects, partly thanks to a loving woman. We share the same house, me living on the ground floor and she upstairs, so we enjoy being together and also have to possibility be ourself when we want that - a super solution for us both :-)
nahh, back to business
I began building plastic models around 1960 and with some pauses in between, still build a model once in a while.
Currently I am having a hopefully short pause from racing due to health issues, so I am building static models in stead.
You are welcome to my web-site: racecars.dk/
and my Picasa site: picasaweb.google.com/118370469759275492557
My interest is primarely race cars from 1965-1972 with a few excursion on both sides. I prefer 1:24 scale
yours, Niels Elmholt
