New from Florida

[jchrisf]

Hello all, I am new here and haven't built a model in over 30 years.  When I was a very young child in the late 70's I built my first kit that is actually on the cover of an old Model Cars Magazine (pic below).  I just glued it together and had a couple of bottles of Testors paint that I painted in various places with a paint brush.  It looked terrible. I built one more but the pic on the box looked so nice and my finished model looked aweful without the proper paint job so I lost interest.  

In my late teens I tried it again and got some Testor's spray paint and built about three Nascar models that turned out really nice for a newbie.  Then I was off to college and always said I'd come back when I had more time and money.  Well I am back now.  

Youtube recommended a video last week by The Scale Modeler and I watched it and got my desire back so I went out and purchased all the things I thought I will need to actually do it right this time.  I've been researching here and other places and watching a lot of YT videos and can't wait for my my stuff to arrive so I can get started.  I like race cars so I thought the Revell 57 Ford of Fireball Roberts would be a good place to start again because it wasn't expensive and only had a few cool details compared to other race cars which should make it easier.  I noticed that a member here called JTRACING did this model a few years ago from a image search I did on Google and his work is some of the best I have seen.  This looks amazing IMO.

  

You all have some awesome builds and I am very impressed with your work and wish I could build realistic models like you all do.  Hopefully I'll get there someday soon and have a lot of fun doing it.

This is the van and motorcycle kit that I first tried as a little kid.  Mine didn't come out so good.

[89AKurt]

Well, welcome back to a hobby that always takes a back seat in life.  I keep forgetting about YouTube videos, can learn to do just about everything now.

I still have many of my models built last century.  Would be funny to have a thread for that subject, just so people can see we all improve over time.

[Ramfins59]

Welcome to our plastic playground James.

[BigTallDad]

Welcome back! There's a show near you that has some awesome models and bunches of vendors. You have plenty of time to plan (and build) for it

https://www.ipmsorlando.com/modelpalooza.html

[crazyjim]

Welcome James.

[Ich_Will]

Welcome James! 

 

[jchrisf]

Thanks everyone!

[DumpyDan]

Welcome to the show