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Welcome to my home page for PlaMo. Don't know what "PlaMo" is? I was told that this is a term coined by the Japanese for "Plastic Model". You know, Japanese sometimes shorten some long Katagana terms into shorter ones. When those shortened Katagana terms are written (not translated!) in English, we have the "English terms" like "GunPla" (Gundam Plastic Model), "Mook" (Magazine Book), and so on. Anyway this is a home page for Japanese plastic models.
Probably some of you are wondering why I am limiting my work to only Japanese plastic models? Simply put, because of their quality, from design, manufacturing and all the way to packaging and promotion. I built an Alien worrior, which was made by a British manufacturer, more than ten years ago but I still remember the painful experience. When it comes to pain-in-the-neck experiences with the US/UK manufacturers, I do have a load of them. Indeed, I usually build Japanese sci-fi models, and they are very different from the western sci-fi models in terms of style and room for creativity.
When visitors browse this web page, they will quickly find that it is written in Chinese in most cases. However I am in the process of writing English desciption for all pages but this is a huge job. I think it will take me years to do so. (Well needless to say I am not working on this web site full time.) Nevertheless I believe the photos, especially those in-progress photos, will help non-Chinese visitors get some idea of my work.
dilaton
July 2006
Somewhere in the Japanese air space enroute to Hong Kong
猶記得在模型製作的初階，如果僥倖能夠完成一件模型作品後，通常都只會找個隱闢的地方收藏起來，以防家人得悉自己又買了新模型。(在她們眼中，只要盒子是一模一樣的話，內裡換了是甚麼部件也看不出有甚麼分別來！)但在日積月累之下，完成品的數目也慢慢多了起來，自始也漸漸公然擺放。無奈在八十年代中移民到加拿大的過程裡，完成品半件也沒有運送過來，而那些舊製作也只留在自己的回憶當中遂漸消退。
雖然在加拿大砌模型可謂不得其便，但我仍然不斷製作模型。此地的模型行業雖然甚不發達，但勝在地方寬倘足以容物，擺放完成品自然不是甚麼問題。輾轉在自已大學生涯的中段，購入了人生的首部攝影機。當時對攝影一竅不通的我以為可以藉此替自己的模型完成品拍下記錄照，但因為這方面財識不足，所以很多時侯一卷菲林如果能夠拍出一幅像樣的照片已屬萬幸了。故此當互聯網興起的時侯，雖然自己一萬個想製作一個自己的模型網頁，但礙於沒有照片而只有作罷；只能夠閒時製作一些與模型無關的網頁。
離開校園之後，在香港住了年半後又回到加拿大生活。自始以公務員的收入支助自己砌模型，比起以往在學時輕鬆得多了。再加上那時侯數碼攝影機開始進入主流消費者市場，因此當時也有能力買下一部。在數碼攝影機那即影即見的特點之下，仍然對攝影一竅不通的我亦漸漸摸索到竅門。如是者在 2003 年終於能夠在 Yahoo! 的 GeoCities 內插起了一枝屬於自己的旗幟，以便用另一種形式去擺放和保存我的作品。
看倌不難發現，這個新的網頁比起在 GeoCities 內的舊網頁沒有甚麼大分別，只多了一版其他網頁的外連結和留言版。可以說版面甚至乎比以前更簡陋清淡。這個嘛，畢竟這是一個私人網頁，沒有任何商業原素，故此不必計較遊人多寡，版面亦無需五光十色以作招徠。如果這網頁也算是一種個人的製作的話，那麼清淡不就是我的模型作品的寫照嗎？姑勿論如何，這是一個以簡單、快捷、方便為前題的網頁，以供在下展示自己的作品，甚至乎藉此結交一眾同好。
二零零五年七月 夏理法斯市•加拿大
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