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Re: Anyone build scale models??? Just a hobby dedication thread.
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Mon, 31 January 2005 03:58
 
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Yeah I build model cars as a hobby, have been for just over 13 years now. I build F1, rally cars, sports cars (Le Mans etc), touring cars and road cars! My most prized posessions however, are my kits of all of Ayrton Senna's cars stretching from his 1981 Formula Ford to the 1994 Williams.
I built a few models when I was a kid (Knight Rider Trans Am was one of them!) but when I was 19 I decided to try it again seriously and I purchased and built the Tamiya Ferrari F40. Went really well, and I was hooked!
These days I have about 150 or so unbuilt models that I have been accumulating ever since. Unforunately they release them faster then I can build them, and I don't find much time to build these days anyway. I have found that if you want a particular kit you have to buy it now - if you wait till you are actually ready to build it chances are it will be out of production. (Learned that one the hard way!)
I also have quite a few resin kits (mostly from Japan, some from Brazil) of F1 cars that are not made by the plastic model companies. These cost upwards of $300, so when you start buying these you have a serious problem....... 
I have been contemplating selling quite a few models off, I have enough to last me well into retirement and a lot of them I quite literally will NEVER get a chance to build (unless I suddenly win the lotto and never have to work another day in my life) so you may see an ad pop up in the For Sale forum one day.
Cheers,
Matt
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