Well, what to say? I dig scale stuff. Mom had me when she was 20 in 1962. She was the oldest of 10 children who grew up way out in the country in a two room house (shack, actually). As those brothers and sisters grew up between 1962 and 1975 every one of them except two lived with us. One of my uncles polished his 1960 Ford Sunliner until you could spit on the finish and hit somebody in another dimension of reality. Another uncle had a different car every couple of weeks, and another wouldn't have one that could not dig a hole in the street when he floored it. I had my first 120mph ride at age 5 or 6 with one of my uncles in a 1959 Olds 88 (proof that a concrete block CAN fly with enough thrust).
I have ridden in Wildcats, various Mach 1 Mustangs, Mustang Convertibles, Mustang Hardtops, Mustang 2+2s, Fairlane GTs, GTOs, 88s, 98s, Sunliners, Starliners, Six Pac Road Runners, regular Road Runners (if there ever was such a thing), D-500s, Invictas, Chargers, Charger RTs, Grand Ams (REAL Grand Ams), 55, 56 and 57 Bel Airs, various Galaxies, Impalas of about every year produced, Camaros, Camaro SS, Z-28 Camaros, RS Camaros, Firebirds, Trans Ams, Imperials, Furys, Polaras, Coronets and so forth. Most usually either with tires smoking, and / or exceeding Warp 9.
Needless to say, I started building model cars (when I was six) but by 1970 had discovered the cool stuff Aurora was making. I still love Aurora kits, even the hoaky diorama bases in the tanks are cool. From there it was Hasegawa 1/72 airplanes and armor and Bandai 1/48 armor (which I still like) until I discovered the Shep Paine Monogram Issues in the 1970s.
33 years later now.... I still have a big cardboard box full of Aurora Tanks, a box full of Bandai 1/48 scale stuff and about a thousand assorted cars, trucks, planes, tanks, scifi, figures, figure sets, space craft ..... and no apparent reason subjects.
I even love the Johnny Lightning cars Polar Lights is making.
God help me, (and my storage space) I think this hobby is going to stay with me.
It's incredible the quality we enjoy these days..... I recently built the Tamiya Famo with Trailer...... HAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWW SON..... that kit is as near to absolutely PERFECT as any model kit I ever built. The fit is unbelievable. The only problem I encountered with it was that I broke the axle pin on the front end of the half track.... I'm almost finished with a 1/16 Tamiya Early Tiger I that a guy sold to me exceedingly cheap (read, if I had not known him to have ordered it from my local hobby shop I would have passed thinking it stolen) with the complete Aber Photoetch set............ ditto on the fit..... What about that new Academy F18.... that thing looks wonderful..... If anybody is still alive out there that remembers, how do those kits compare to our old $.35 Hawk Mitsubishi Zero kits? How about the old Monogram P38 even!
Enjoy everybody. I've learned so much history from this hobby it's unbelievable! Everything from the little blurbs they use to print on the front page of the instructions to being in model clubs with WW II, Korea, and Viet Nam veterans.
This is just a cool hobby. Forget the rivet counters and have fun with it! It's the people IN the machines that made the history. Don't forget to get to know them because they're disappearing fast in some cases.....
See y'round
Stratojet