I’m an older fellow who has been in and out of modeling several times. Enough so that I never gained the modeling skill level of others who started around the same time as me. My latest return was early 2018 with some fits and starts until 2022 while I completed a large wooden cabin cruiser in my garage. But that is mostly done now and in my remaining years (of which I hope there are many), I want to devote myself to getting much better at scale modeling.

With that in mind, I am trying many new techniques and expanding my skill set. I build aircraft for now, mostly 1/48 and some 1/72, with an occasional dabble in other scales. Except for a single kit, I have no other 1/32 scale kits as I do not have the room for displaying them.

In my stash (about 50 kits), I have a few motorcycle kits, a ship model, a fuel truck kit. I like to display my aircraft in flight, but I also will build them setting on their landing gear and simply displayed on the shelf. Interest in aircraft runs from late 1920’s to mid 1960’s for the most part with most falling in WWII and 1950’s.

I have 14 kits built some of which were built multiple decades ago. Current builds since 2018 amount to four with two more nearing completion. I had many more from previous stints in modeling, but they have not survived the years.

Fun Facts:

I have never built a P-51 Mustang kit as an adult in some 50 years( I may have as a kid, but cannot remember). I am starting one now as one of my next builds (2023).

I have only ever completed one Tamiya kit so far, always seeming to pick older kits to work on. I have nothing against the new “wunderkits”, in fact I have many in my stash waiting to be built, but I just have not gotten to them yet. The P-51 kit mentioned above is Tamiya’s P-51B.