Hi I'm having a problem and I just can't seem to get it around. I want to populate part of my model then pass it to the view so the user can populate the rest and submit.

Here's the model

```
public class SelectModel
{
    public List<String> Scripts { get; set; }
    public string ScriptSelection { get; set; }
    public IFormFile InputFile { get; set; }

}

```

and here's where I'm trying to populate the list in the controller

```
    public IActionResult Index()
    {
        SelectModel model = new SelectModel();

        model.Scripts.Add("Germany");

        return View(model);
    }

```

I'm getting null ref exception at model.Scripts.Add("Germany");

I've populated a model from a view and passed it back to a controller before but I seem to be having issues initialising the model in the controller for my 1st view