Is it bad that the first thing I spotted was the big box of sweets?
Nope
They're the youngest sons. He's a greedy little fucker, but skinny as a rake, so we have to hide them from him or he'll eat the lot in one go.
It is a good hobby, can be very therapuetic. I just lost my mojo, I mainly bought 1/32 Wingnut Wings WW1 planes, as I enjoyed rigging them. Then the company went tits up just before they were going to bring out some 1/32 Lancasters.
When I was a really little kid, my Dad made a load of Airfix kits and hung them from my bedroom ceiling, then as I got older, he taught me how to build them and I was hooked. It was always planes, mainly WW2, Spitfires, Hurricanes, Tempest, Typhoon, BF109 and FW190s. I got a few jets, Phantom, Harrier but preferred the piston engined. As I got older it was Tamiya bikes, all the Japanese bikes that they produced in the 1980s and then Rally Cars, had the Tamiya Audi Quattro, 205T16 and a few others. I stopped building when I was about 20/21.
My issue now is I don't have anywhere to put them once built. We've a decent sized house, but rather than build it as a 3 bed, they built it as a two bed, with a huge main bedroom and a double bedroom at the back. This means one kid uses the bedroom as my missus let the eldest have the dining room, which was my space before the kids were born, so I have nowhere but the garage, which is too narrow and is freezing in winter. I've got a Yamaha R1 I've had for 12 years that's half built, plus the others.
I'm not putting them in the kids room, they've got a load of metal WW2 fighters on a shelf that they cannot reach, yet everyone is damaged, so don't trust the shits.
