About Me

My name is David O’Barr and I’m 38 years old. When I was a kid, in Jr. High School down in San Diego a good friend of mine named Richard Tin introduced me to model building. This was back in the late 70’s early 80’s. We built Tamiya 1/35 scale armor kits and he was always much better than me especially when it came to painting the kits and figures. I gave up the hobby when I was 15 or 16 years old and didn’t build any models for 15 years. Then one night I was on a date (with my wife when she was still my girlfriend) and we were down at the Harbor in San Diego. We were going to go see a comedian but we were early and so we decided to kill some time at the Nautical Museum. We were poking around the Museum store on the Ferry Berkeley and we were looking at ship models. We ended up buying a model of the Cutty Sark. We didn’t go see the comedian but went straight home and started building it. For a while I built ship models but I always remembered building the armor kits with Richard and I have always been a WWII buff. So I decided I was going to build some armor kits from WWII. I thought 1/35 would take up too much room (we were living in an apartment at the time) and I also thought that 1/72 would be more of a challenge. The first kit I built is the Revell Panther A on the home page in 2000. It was fun and I haven’t stopped for over four years. It’s become an obsession, just ask my wife. I have really found a lot of inspiration on the internet especially at “On the Way” and “Braille Scale” on Missing Links. See my Links page many great resources.

Other than being a guy who builds little tanks I’m also a husband to Crystal, a father to Amber(5) and Erica(3) and a Prosecuting Attorney for the City of Anaheim here in Orange County, California. It’s great here. I’m about 15 minutes from Brookhurst Hobbies and several other great Hobby Stores with good 1/72 and 1/76 kits. We live in the City of Brea about 10 miles north of Disneyland and about 30 minutes from Downtown Los Angeles.

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