A few kits I put together years ago.

LocuMob said

I never honed my skills to your level, but I went through a bunch of models as a kid, then came back to models in my 20's, and put some time into them to make them look ok. Never did much with detailing, wish I would have got some resin kits when that part of the hobby was at its peak! I had a few hundred models at one point, but sold a bunch to a guy who built models with his father and his son. Thought that was cool three generations built kits together, they got a great deal too, $2/kit. I sold off a bunch the last few years and kept the Mopars that had some connection to me, and the big rig and airplane kits. Going I see if I can't put a few together this winter and reignite the fire for building again.

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I wish more young guys would get into model building, especially kids. The hobby taught me patience and attention to detail. Then there was the added bonus of the vehicle history that always seemed to be a standard part of the instruction sheet. They usually provided just enough information to make me want to hit the books and learn more. I also found that once I had finished a model I knew its profile frontwards, backwards, sideways and upside down. This came in handy in the military when we had friend or foe training sessions using flash cards with silhouettes. If a flash card came up with a vehicle I had built a model of I could identify it in a split second. Like you I'm finally going to start building again. In recent years a number of really highly detailed kits of some of my favorite WWII era tanks have come on the market complete with detailed interiors. That was just too much for me to resist(interiors is what Bandai kits were known for) so I bought a few. One might even say a few too many, but only time will tell if I went overboard or not.