Yesterday I went with a friend to deliver a car hauler he built for a guy.
This guy has a house and a very large well equipped auto shop outside the city limits.
He is retired and his hobby is restoring pre-70's ish cars to their original condition. In his shop he had his current projects which consisted of a 48 Ford Coupe, 64 Comet Caliente, and a 68 Mustang convertible. He had a fenced in yard with about 25 other cars. It was dark out and I don't recall what he said he had in his "stash"!
In talking with him the methods he used and the research he did reminded so much of what I do to build models. He talked about having several projects going at once because he would get bored or stuck on one and would move to another. At times he said he would go for weeks or months without working on his cars because he just wasn't in the "groove". He also talked about the variety of putty's, paints, and air brushes (guns) that he worked with. All the car parts he had laying around, engines, exhaust systems, windshields, seats, chrome parts, etc reminded me so much of my little work bench!
This all sounded very familiar and that was the humbling part. He models the real 1:1 car! I just deal with styrene.