My airbrushes have been calling me...
Wow what a great forum and resources. I am returning to modeling also after a long time away - I am a fanatic detailer and somewhere in the mid-to late 90s, found that, combined with my multiple responsibilities, including my new marriage, civilian and Army National Guard/USAR careers etc., made it impossible to actually finish anything! I am now 52 and recently retired from the USAR - so that has removed one major excuse. We also have largely finished much of the work we needed to do after purchasing a new house, and that has removed another. I am busy building a new spray booth based on one I saw in a recent issue of FSM and am just working out how best to exhaust the spray to the outside. I use Tamiya acrylics so this should not be a huge deal.
My father and I are both into WWII 1/48 aircraft. We have both built VIetnam era jets though. Using a Paasche double action, I built the 1/48 Monogram F105D in the early 90s and it is on display in my office - I will try to upload that soon as it came out well for my first shot at such a complex paint scheme. My father did his F105G with a brush, old-school.
As soon as the booth is done, I need to finish a Monogram P-38 (actually F-4B) which I worked on last in the 90s. I used every resource I could get to complete it then, including Bodie's book Lightning and trips to the Air and Space Museum. But I found out later that the camera windows on the original kit, starboard side were wrong and had to be redone. I started the work (and other corrections) but never finished it. It is interesting that multiple high-tech Lightning kits including Hasegawa's came out since then - at the time Monogram's 1/48 kit was it.
Oh well, I guess I will be glued to the airbrush discussions,
Duane