I have been building scale models since 1965. I have added a new page to my website that chronicles the builds as I go along. I enjoy doing a lot of scratch building to produce finished models that as accurately as possible, achieve as detailed example of the actual aircraft. I do not use much, if at all, in the way of aftermarket resin as I prefer to do the work myself rather than use someone else's work.  I love to take older kits from the 1970's and rebuild them. Current kits can run several hundred dollars but the old Revell kits can be had for less than $40. Add maybe $10 worth of scratch building and I can build a model that is the equal and often better than the very finest kits available today. I prefer to work in 1/32 scale as the size of the model makes a such high level of detail possible. It is not unusual to have several kits in progress at the same time, this tends to help prevent "burnout" working on just one kit.