Shigeru Tanaka

My ardor for aircraft and aviation started in my childhood first with small rubber-powered flying aircraft models consisting of thin strips of bamboo and paper, and then plastic model kits at their incunabula. In later years, I came to enjoy flying radio-controlled aircraft models too in my hobby time.

Besides enjoying oil painting on canvases, mountaineering, traveling, scuba diving, and listening to classic music, and of course enjoying my business jobs too, I continued my aircraft modeling activities mainly with plastic model kits plus wood pieces and ultra fine etching parts to create highly accurate scale models through historical investigations in many reference materials.

In January 1995, we had that terrible experience of the Kobe Earthquake. I lost all of my completed scale aircraft models together with many pieces of furniture in that tremendous quake. Fortunately I myself, my wife and children were all safe though I had a bruise on my left arm that continued aching over a week or so. After months of what was called revival and reconstruction, I changed my modeling activities from plastic, wood and etching parts to PC flightsim modeling. This hobby is really great. The name of the game in my aircraft modeling is originality and creativity. Completed models are stored safe on the net, and can be shared with many people all over the globe. It's my pleasure in hobby time.

Through my models I have uploaded to FlightSim.Com and other sites, and through wonderful flightsim community networks, I have so far become acquainted with many good friends and nice people in many countries all over the world, which is another phase of my pleasure in this hobby. Looking forward to knowing more good friends on this planet in the future as well.

As for my aircraft models, when you are here on www.flightsim.com, go to File Search and type my first name "Shigeru" as a search keyword, and then you will see a list of all my models uploaded so far. And be sure to visit our new website "Shigeru's Aircraft Models" too by all means.

Have a nice flight, all my friends all over the world.

Best regards,
Shigeru Tanaka
Akashi, Japan
wing.shigeru@nifty.ne.jp
www.flightsimnetwork.com/shigeru