Had some free time today...

and found some old photos of my first builds since getting back into modeling.

The very first model i built was a 69 Chevy Nova.

It was a complete learning curve because of all the years lost not building a model and missing out on new techniques and not having proper materials at hand and just before completing this kit my wife and I had our baby boy. We're talking five years ago here and the stuff i see on these model forums everything evolves day by day.


My second build was a 68 Chevy Corvette Roadster. It was a much cleaner build from the first cause i had plenty of time in between kits to scour the net for tips and techniques but still trying one technique per build.

My third build was a 32 Ford Street Rod and it was an ever better build. I still got a long way to go to fine tune things but i am glad the way things turn out so far.

I had a few more builds after the 32 Ford but didn't have a camera for some pictures. When i finally got a camera again my next build was a 56 Ford Victoria. This kit was my second with hinged doors and trunk, still not perfect but i was pretty amazed where this build took me.

So then i found a forum that was dedicated to military scale models and the things i saw some guys do with paint and pigments and washes OH MY!! I went out and bought one small kit to try my hand at all these newer techniques i saw and as i built the model and tried a few things i kind of got stuck. I don't know where else to go with it. I think the last thing i did to it was added a filter.

This was a before shot.

Here's the after shots.

I was thinking of doing a vignette of some kind thats why i weathered the wheels the way i did but then i sort of got stuck. Maybe i had sensory overload with all these new techniques and all these amazing photos i was seeing and not knowing exactly where to go from here, it went back in its box and its sitting there now.
We'll see how it goes in the days to come, the box is sitting on my workbench and the lid is off so i can slowly gather my thoughts and ideas and where i need to go and get it finished. So as they say in tv land " Stay Tuned".