What brought you back into modeling?

23 years of alcoholism and the desire to become sober ,is the shortest answer

i built many kits as a teen and then discovered i had the ability to play the guitar,after several years in a road band i was in quite a mess,i met someone who sat and talked to me so that i could see what others see(i had no idea),within 2 years i was no longer playing in clubs and on 2-11-2005 i stopped cold turkey,the cigarettes are due to be stopped anytime now,and the person i met that helped me see what i couldn't is due to become my wife this year.....

I got back into the hobby as a form of R & R.  I have been on again/off again in the hobby for 30 + years.  My latest entry, about a year and a half ago, stemmed from running a business of my own for the past 9 years and trying to start a second one with a partner… which did not go well.  Staying focused on the hobby can be very relaxing.  I started to build again to keep my mind from racing in a hundred directions at once. 

A lack of money.  When I got out of the service,  I had a couple of weeks and limited funds before I started my job.  For something to do, I bought the 1/32 Revell Wildcat.  With limited supplies and no airbrush, I brush painted the light gray and left the topside the plastic color.  The picture I took of the finished kit looks nasty today.

I built jet models when I was a kid, then turned to cars, and built them off and on for quite some time. Occasionally I would get an urge to build and go buy a kit, but for some reason a while back I decided it was time to try planes again. I bought the Hasegawa 1/48 F-14A Sundowners bird. That thing is huge! I Had only built 1/72 kits when I was a kid cause they were cheap and my Mom and Dad would buy them for me at walmart, Needless to say, I was quite impressed with the 1/48 scale, and I have a good selection of planes, cars, and a couple motorcycles now... I feel sorry for my fiance

Well, I don't really know even though I recently got the itch again...

My family and I just recently moved back home, while unpacking some of our stuff I ran across a box full of modeling supplies, some of which I hadn't seen in a really long time. The paints were for the most part trash, but there were tools and other various things in there that were still usable. So I put it where I would have easy access to it again...Fast forward a few weeks...

Wife and I went to Books A Million and I was looking through the various magazines and ran across Fine Scale Modeller, I decided to go ahead and pick it up to look through it. Well I then learned about the website through the magazine, where I found the forums. I came over here and lurked reading various posts, looking at some of the work rolling out in absolute amazement. I decided to sign up for a magazine subscription and register here on the forums, that was only a few days ago.

My wife thought it would be a good thing for me to get back into as I went through some medical procedures in the last 2 years that at this time prohibit me from enjoying some of my more active hobbies. I think she'll learn to regret that latter though. LOL

I now have a "room" all to myself just for my hobby that needs some serious work before turning into what I want it to be, as matter of fact I've been thinking about asking for ideas and suggestion from the fellow forum members here...

Well that's my little story, I've yet to get started on a kit yet, but I've been accumulating some needed tools and supplies while wandering the Hobby Shop aisles considering my kit purchase options...

I couldn't afford the resin MG Models 1/12 Ferrrai 330P4 for $600 and I wanted to build it as sculpture, so I got a Fujimi 1/24 330P4 instead and there I was again after 35+ years, modeling again. Oops.