Hi All,
took up modelling about a year ago; bought one of the Revell Star Wars kits as a birthday present and then realised I hadn't the skill to do anything interesting with it. Two or three magazines (FSM included!) and an F-117 1/72 kit later and I was hooked.
Since then I've been stockpiling kits and building as fast as work and home life allows. Shopping trips with the girlfriend tend to involve me spending time and effort pikcing up usable bits for a toolkit. I'm now knee deep in magazines and web articles and various scale modelling web sites and forums have squeezed everything else off my browser Favourites list.
Initially I picked up a handful of the more recent jets and stealth aircraft before realising that, I think, at heart I'm a rotorhead. Currently working on the Airfix 1:72 Bell AH-1T Sea Cobra (an interesting reduced stock item - one half of the fuselage has a 20 degree bend in it which is taking some effort to cure!).
Over the past year I've completed a Kamov Ka-18, three Comanche,and a SeaKing (where I got carried away and scratch built an interior that can't be seen!) and an Su-37 Berkut. (which may all see the light of day on my website if I can get the soft focus to hide the blemishes!) The Star Wars kit is still on the shelf.
One question - why do I pick up a kit, think "ok this is going to be a quick build out of the box nothing more" and then three weeks later find myself still trying to scratchbuild cockpit components, 'improve' the appearance of the rotor, start thinking about FOD covers, additional radio masts, handles, blips, blots and bumps that could, with just a couple of hours work, make it look that little bit more like the reference picture I found on the web? Is there any hope?