Like most of us I've built models sense I was a kid. On and off for me depending on what was happening in my life and how much time I had. Started with cars in the sixties and seventies then moved to ships in the 90es, then became a tredhead up until about 10 years ago. Then we adoupted our one and only child. A girl from China and of course life changed. No more time for myself life was work career, home improvements and you know the story. But I always planed that when I retired the I would again have time time to indulge myself and get lost in that wonderful world of model building. Well that time is know. I am now a retired hospice nurse my daughter is now ten. That age where she is starting to establish her own identity and spending more time with her friends. Establishing deeper ties outside the family i.e. normal development. Well I now have more time o my hands. I enjoy rebuilding Jeep Comanche pickups during the day. Buying the older Jeep trucks fixing them up and reselling them. I've owned Jeeps sense 89 and am devoted to the brand. But my evening hours need something more then TV. I need that creative outlet so here I am back in it and really liking forward to it. I was in Hobby Lobby today and was really surprised at the amount really nice looking car kits that are out now. Reissues of the cars I grew up with. Being a Hotrodder all my life it was a pleasent suprize. All the sudden I was transported back in time. I was 9yrs old again looking throu the shelves of Papfenphus Hardware. Yes that was the name of it. It had the best hobby section in town. It literally took up half the store. It carried everything that you needed. I would mow a yard and walk the mile and a half to the store to get a kit. Usually with my older brother Stuart. We would both have a small jingle in our pockets just burning a a hole threw it. The excitement would build all the way way up there and then threw the door we went into nervona. She would spend hours looking threw the shelves of that dark, dusty, cramped store with a ceiling that was way to low. It was heaven on earth filled with treasure beyond belief and excitement that would keep a young from sleeping at night. An absolute high life in my young life and of time spent with my brother who has sense past on. Tonight looking at the shelves in Hobby Lobby I was transported back to that time. The excitement was back the thrill of looking at the kits everything except my brother. But I think he was there with me, it kind of felt that way. He would have liked the kit I picked up. Its the Plymouth Outlaw drag car. It would have been rite up his ally. Of course back then 2 years after I would have built it he would have talked me into tieing about 8 black cats together putting them in the passenger seat and KA BOOM. More fun.
