Quote Originally Posted by J. Robinson View Post
My grandmother owned a little neighborhood "variety store" when I was a kid. I started building many of the smaller simpler model airplane kits and a few cars when I was about 6 years old. There weren't many car kits available then (at least not in Granny's store), but in 1958 (I was 10), when AMT came out with the "3 in 1 Customizing Kits" I found my calling - CARS, CARS, and MORE CARS

One thing I've noticed, though: it takes me a lot longer to build a model now than when I was a kid...

My switch to car models was when a friend pointed out that you didn't have to build them per the instructions... and THAT was cool!!!

I know what you mean about the time to build. I am much more "anal" about detail now... and I have to do some major scratchbuilding on each one. It is just too boring for me to mix parts like I used to. Many of these have bodies that I scratchbuilt, or heavily modified... then had Altered States Models cast them in resin. The result was that the last few projects took at least a year each! {:-)