Listen to people put deep philosophical thoughts and analysis the hobby --------- Priceless.

Hi. For me most of the pleasure comes in the actual building of the kit itself. I like to see all those little bits and pieces, whether plastic, resin, PE, tissue, etc., come together, creating 'something out of nothing' so to speak. It's one thing to read about certain aspects of the vehicles and look at the photos of the detail items that were made into them or used on them, but to sit down and actually put something together that resembles the subject matter at hand gives an individual a tad bit of a different perspective on the actual thing and how it was used during it's heyday in history.

I think we all get off on the buying thing. We are all heavily influenced by box art. Esp. if it's subject matter that we are really interested in to begin with.

And a combination of these two items above leads a lot of us to buy way more than we may ever get put together. And for me at least, this puts a pressure on to get them all built, so I sometimes find myself rushing things a tad bit, and that is where I usually make my biggest mistakes. My really big downfall is the painting and that comes from being too critical of my abilities when compared to others out there. I tend to forget at times that I do this hobby for self-gratification, so no matter how it comes out in the end, it gives me pleasure to do it anyway. And that's the really important thing, for me anyway.

Take care, sgirty