Everyday is a learning day
Munchtech is my personal corner of the web, where I keep track of the projects, hobbies and websites I've built up over the years.
Based in New Zealand, I'm into making things, old custom vans, model vans, photography, websites and whatever else keeps me busy.
With a couple of computer programming courses behind me, I started dabbling in making websites for myself and others. I found it came fairly naturally, so I created a "How to Make a Website" website of my own. That eventually led to me becoming a moderator at a webmaster forum. I enjoyed designing websites so much that I thought I should do it for a living... I didn't.
Instead, I just kept building websites for the things that interested me - and there have been quite a few of those over the years.
Munchtech is where I bring some of those interests together. From custom vans and model hot rods and vans to photography, fish and the more recent BusyKiwi projects, there's a bit of everything here.
Below are a few other hobbies and things that keep me busy.
Mud kitchens, builders' benches, sandwich boards, planters, garden mirrors and more.
What started as making a mud kitchen for a friend has grown into BusyKiwi, where I make practical and creative things for children, families, early learning centres, markets and more.
MID8 - a custom CF Bedford van, old-school style.
Custom vans were big in the 1970s and 1980s, and in 2006 I decided to build myself a custom CF Bedford.
Some of the bigger modifications include a 4-inch roof chop, mid-mounted 350 Chevy V8 engine, gull-wing doors and keyless entry.
Follow the build of this crazy custom van project from New Zealand.
I love custom vans. I collect them. I build them.
This is my model van collection, featuring vans of all shapes and sizes - Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Corgi, and plenty of unnamed plastic and tin vans. I also build 1/24 and 1/25 scale plastic model vans.
No Transits or Astros - just good old custom vans!
This is my plastic scale model website.
Unlike the model van site, this one doesn't contain custom vans. Instead, you'll find plenty of hot rods, customs and classics, along with heaps of tips and tricks to get you started with plastic scale modelling.
Snapshots of the world.
Photography has been a passion of mine for many years. I've gone from hobby to occupation and back to hobby again, enjoying the many sights the world has had to offer along the way.
Here you'll find a small collection of photographs from my much larger collection - images that haven't been used commercially.
Something I learnt from my late father.
Keeping fish is another hobby I've enjoyed over the years. I have five fish tanks with cold-water goldfish and tropical guppies.
Fish are like any other pet - they need looking after. There are plenty of people who think you just add water, but there's a lot more to keeping fish than that!
These are just some of the hobbies, projects and interests that have kept me busy over the years. Some started as a simple idea, some became much bigger projects, and others are just things I enjoy.
Have a look around - you never know what you might find.