Hi Everyone,
I have recently got back into modeling after a 35 year absence. No, I wasn't in prison. I discovered girls around age 16 and there went the old hobby. Now that I'm 50 years old and married my interests have taken a more pedestrian turn. I am a school teacher and am off during the summer and I got a wild hair that I wanted to try out a model kit just for the fun of it. I picked up a Tamiya Porsche GT2 kit and some paints and other supplies and now I'm hooked!
In the last 6 weeks I have spent countless hours and even more money building models, reading modeling books and magazines, and hiding in the basement. I have built a few cars, a few planes and am now working on my first armor vehicle, a Tamiya M1A1 Abrams.
The thing that amazes me the most about this hobby is how far the technology has come since back in the 60's when I first got into this. For you youngsters out there back then there was no super glue, photo-etched stuff, aftermarket add-ons etc. It was a $3 kit, a tube of Testors and some paint, if you even bothered with painting very much back then. Now I spend hours agonizing over a 1/48 A-10 so you can read the writing on the gum wrapper on the floor of the cockpit.
Anyway, I have read many posts here and it looks like this site will be a wealth of information for someone who wants to learn all he can about this very cool hobby. Maybe I can even offer some advice or tips of my own. Glad to be aboard.
Ed
Rule #1 Never pick your nose with superglue on your finger.