darn, another allnighter...

Hi all,
I kinda sneaked my first post to the Auto section, but anyhow, my name is Ryan and I am from jersey. I 've been reading fine scale modeler for about 6 years but never knew there was a forum until i wondered in here from a google search. I started modeling when I was ten after my mom got me two matchbox 1/72 kits (a Hawk surveilance plane and a Dolphine helicoptor... i still remember them) and the scales just progresses as the years go on, focusing mostly on armor kits. For the past 5 years I have been going on and off of modeling thanks to schooling, but now that I have just graduated college n 4 years of engineering classes, I want to take my hobby to a newer level. Anyway enough of these self introductions as I actually got a whole shelf of unstarted kits accumulated over the past several years for me to get my hands dirty. I am trying to start a collection of U.S. and Russian WWII tanks at 1:35 and a MotoGP/500cc class motorcycle collection at 1:12, and finishing a bunch of other fighters and misc. kits on the side (all will pretty much be from Tamiya), hoping that the experience on this forum will be rewarding and to meet more fellow hobbiests.