Hello everyone. I'm finding this community at a time of great change in my life. I find, as I look around, and I mean this in the most positive way, a community of people who, for the most part, look and sound like me. By that, I mean, I've watched a lot of yt videos and eavesdropped on a few forums, and I don't see many people stressing over what joe down the street did yesterday.
I find watching an unboxing video, or one of dr cranky's... well, just about anything dr cranky has to say. Or Hunter Selby with his amazing trucks, or Mr Minidreams with those mad hoppers... is a far better way to spend my time than ministrating over... anything. So, big shout out to you three, because it's you who brought me to this hobby again after decades of not having this fun.
I have not yet finished a model, but I do have a wip. I bought the Revell Magnum kits, both the SRT8 and the slab with the lambo doors. The kit with the lambo doors is a curbside kit and I didn't like those even when I was 8, but the body is pretty nice and I thought I could use the interior, which is also pretty nice in that kit. The SRT8 kit has an engine that has left me with new respect for modern engines, because I usually find them way too plain. The little hemi in that kit is really something. Right now it's all subassemblies, I need to obtain an airbrush and do some relearning.
I'm not retired, I have a great career as a DBA and so cannot spend the hours some of you obviously have to devote to this craft. The "Challenger with aluminum engine" thread in this forum is astounding. I send the link to my friends who don't model, it doesn't matter, everyone is amazed at that level of work.
I am really enjoying doing what I am doing in the hobby and joined the forum because this seems to be the place where just about everyone is.