This year I took back up an old hobby. Back when I was a little kid I built a few models, probably because my big brother built models. When I was in college I wanted to learn more about cars so I started building models again, and I have a nice little collection of cars that I built:

But I stopped back around when I got my classic Mustang in 1:1 scale in the mid-90s. I switched to working on full size cars.

Now that I have a hobby room again, and a bit of room to work, I thought it would be fun to get back to building some of the cars I will never own. I started with a thing I have been seeing around in real life lately, offroad Miata! I bought a Jeep Wrangler kit, and a Miata kit and went at it.

My biggest setback was that I wanted a driver, specifically a lady driver, but most model accessories are made for men, so the women available look like they slipped out of a porno. I wanted a driver who looked like a real person. So that model kit got set aside for a bit while I figured out what to do about that.

Meanwhile, my friend Scott had found a kit of his Camaro, and I wanted to build that for him. The sticking point in that kit was that it was only available in a T-Top. So I was like ‘how hard can it be to glue in the T-Tops and blend them into the body?’

Just when I thought it was solid, after weeks of applying filler, sanding, drying, priming, sanding, the T-Top came loose from the body! More superglue, and keep at it!

I was finally happy with the roofline!

I found someone on Ebay selling gauge decals specifically for this Camaro

They’re so tiny!!!

I love how when you build a kit you have a box of parts, and it slowly gets assembled into sub-assemblies, and then those go together, until you are down to just a few parts, and it’s a countdown to it all becoming ONE!

But first there are all these little details. And DECALS!

At some point it starts getting a little nerve wracking as everything you want to do has the possibility of messing something else up, and you’ve come so far!

Plug wires. Gotta have plug wires.

Finally, it was all together. I was really happy with it!

So that was a blast, and Scott loved it!