I've built car models on and off since I was a kid. When I moved from Arizona to Missouri, I lost all my kits and didn't really model at all from 1991 through 2003. Then, in 2003 I found a 1/18th scale Bburago Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing at Big Lots. I bought it, not really knowing what I was going to do with it. I have to explain that when I was building plastic kits, they rarely got finished, because I am not very talented when it comes to painting the body. So I would have lots of detailed and painted chassis and engines with no bodies on and that's the way they would sit. With the diecasts, I could simply disassemble them, do the detailing I wanted to do and then re-assemble them. My wife and I had to downsize, house-wise in 2011 and I gave the 200 some-odd diecast cars I had done to my son. Here recently, after my hobby being old computers the last 9 years, the itch to build some car models has returned. Although I still have my tools, I don't have any paints, or my old stash of detail wiring I had before, so I am starting over from scratch. Not sure why I decided to go another way from the diecasts, maybe because they are now so expensive, but I got to thinking about some of the old Pyro 1/32 scale cars I had as a kid and early teen. So I bought both a SMER and PYRO 1/32 scale Mercer Raceabout off of eBay that should be here next week. We'll see how it goes. I thought I would post some pictures of the diecasts I detailed, just for fun. . . I'm not new to the forum experience. I was a very active member at DiecastXchange back when I was building the diecasts. Hope to have some fun here. . .
