Baron, Nice Post!

I've learned a lot of things over the last week and had a lot of fun. My kits and supplies have been dribbling in. Actually I spent a lot more on supplies paint and tools than Models. I've been watching lots of build videos and seeing too many things that look "handy" to have for building; even if I'm not shooting for museum pieces. For instance somehow I have wound with three different types of filler putties.

I figured out a little too late that Amazon and Amazon and EBay are definitely not the first places to go to buy kits. Some of the online shops are a lot better after you test fill a cart and figure out what their real shipping prices are. Some of them are ridiculous others are quite reasonable. This argues for ordering batches in cases where one retailer has good shipping rates on multiple models. But then I get stuck on "Oh they have a bunch that they have only one of that I want. Which ones should I buy now?" The answer is probably less than I think and best to go with a mix of rare and easy to build!

I've also spent a lot of time researching stuff and hoping I don't back door into an Aviation book collection because I'm just not finding everything I want on the Web.

My friend Paul comes over most Friday nights sometimes we play wargames more often we just BS. Last night. We went over some of the kits I have gotten and talked about planes. Something we don't normally talk about. While I was carefully going over the contents of my kits for the first time with my Ocu-visor on. He was looking stuff up on his phone. Who new that the P-26 Peashooter actually saw Combat? I just thought it was cute and a Pilipino knocked down two Zero's with one!

So anyway I finally have all my supplies, a place set up to build and the model I wanted to build first so I might actually break ground on my first model this week.