Post by StarRunn on Feb 5, 2014 13:09:47 GMT -6
My name is Andy Yanchus. I’m 69 years old, retired and live in Brooklyn, New York.
I started building plastic model kits in the early 1950s. It was a hobby that grew into an obsession that lead to a full time occupation. For about nine years I worked in the Research & Development Dept. of Aurora Plastics/Products where I started by designing and sculpting the patterns for many HO scale Model Motoring slot cars. Eventually, I became a Project Manager for the hobby kit line and worked on such series as Monster Scenes, Prehistoric Scenes and Comic Scenes.
After Aurora, I switched gears and turned another hobby into full time work. I spent almost 17 years coloring comic books for Marvel, with significant runs on X-Men, Incredible Hulk, Alpha Flight, Doctor Who, Marvel Tales (Spider-Man, Doctor Strange) and Marvel Universe Handbook. I even did a little on G.I. Joe.
I’ve also been able to write about model building and kit collecting in both fan publications and professional magazines such as Starlog, Fantasy Modeling and Collecting Scale Models. StarRunn, my business name and identity on this site, is derived from the titles of my first two regular columns.
I’ve been contributing to the Chap Mei Toys forum since 2008, but only recently discovered this website. I hope to repost some of the material prepared for Chap Mei, but expect to generate plenty of new material with the wider scope this site affords.
I started building plastic model kits in the early 1950s. It was a hobby that grew into an obsession that lead to a full time occupation. For about nine years I worked in the Research & Development Dept. of Aurora Plastics/Products where I started by designing and sculpting the patterns for many HO scale Model Motoring slot cars. Eventually, I became a Project Manager for the hobby kit line and worked on such series as Monster Scenes, Prehistoric Scenes and Comic Scenes.
After Aurora, I switched gears and turned another hobby into full time work. I spent almost 17 years coloring comic books for Marvel, with significant runs on X-Men, Incredible Hulk, Alpha Flight, Doctor Who, Marvel Tales (Spider-Man, Doctor Strange) and Marvel Universe Handbook. I even did a little on G.I. Joe.
I’ve also been able to write about model building and kit collecting in both fan publications and professional magazines such as Starlog, Fantasy Modeling and Collecting Scale Models. StarRunn, my business name and identity on this site, is derived from the titles of my first two regular columns.
I’ve been contributing to the Chap Mei Toys forum since 2008, but only recently discovered this website. I hope to repost some of the material prepared for Chap Mei, but expect to generate plenty of new material with the wider scope this site affords.
