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It seems it could be a sort of right of passage. It's my first passenger car. The greatest significance of that is that it has an interior. That's like another skill set all together. I tried adding to the interior by getting the Quinta 3D decal set. Very conservatively, the work so far has be split 25:70:5, build:repair:naval-gaze. In all honesty, the repair portion is likely bigger. I'm not sure I can sustain that. I'm going to try to build least two more kits and see if I can find it rewarding to build at what I think I now know is my skill level. If not, the rest of my kits may be on the market done in a year or so. Why?... I'm not aging gracefully as I had always expected (gym rat, good food, etc.). To add to the unsteady hands I noticed when I started back at this hobby a year ago, I also could swear that I wasn't able to make detailed visual distinctions and judgements very well. I have to take a picture of anything I want to know if it's correctly done, which gets annoying and not done as often as I should. The short of it: I finally went to an ophthalmologist a couple weeks ago and, no, I wasn't imagining it. Options aren't great, so for now I see how it goes. The moral of the story is, if you're still under, say, 65 and putting off building that model you've been thinking about, maybe now is a good time to start it. Back to my right of passage. I bought the kit a year after Porsche stopped producing the car, 1994. Hand painted some parts on the sprue, actually glued three pieces together (that's them falling out of the bonnet, or mating with the box, I'm not sure), and that was it until last fall.