Hunter,
If you didn't like armour modeling before your birthday, apparently you will now! As for birthdays...we have to grow old but we don't have to grow up. My wife has one adult child. I'll be 55 in a few months.
Good luck on those builds. I've only ever built two tanks and they were both Tamiya Tigers. Pour glue in the box. Shake. Presto! Instant Tiger. Have fun.
Mike
p.s. - Patrick...nice! My wife gives her mother a large puzzle for Christmas every year but doesn't give her the box so she has no idea what the picture is. One year it was a 1,000 piece New Yprk Times crossword puzzle, clues included (so you could do the crossword after, if you wished!). A couple of years later, it was a 5,000 piece ashtray full of ashes and cigarette butts.