I have always enjoyed building things.  It doesn't matter if it is Lego, models, or working with wood.  I just like building things. 

But this is more than just getting something to build.  Lego was my model substitute for a few years, but it just didn't give me the same feeling of accomplishment that a model does.  I just get a happy feeling when I get one done.  I can stand back and say to myself:  "Look what I have done" 

It is also helping me with my curious nature.  I like to ask questions and explore things.  I am also doing the same thing as JMac, building up three models that are mainly experiments.  Unfortunately for me, I am a little bit on the anal side, so I have to try my best and them and not treat them as a whole out experiment.  Hence my work on that thing called loosely I might add a 747. 

But along with these experiments has come a lot of learning.  And that was the goal, to improve myself as a modeler.  If I had completely screwed one of them up, I probably would have started on a new one.  But I have not done so yet.  Sure I have had setbacks, the space shuttle was completely repainted once, and really should have been done again, but I think I can hide some of that with weathering. 

   But I digress.... 

   This community has helped too.  Many helpful people on this site, even if I don't hang out on some of the specialty threads, like armor.  I will jump on one or two of those threads eventually, because I have learned that building different types of models is far more fun than just one type. 

  And the last thing I am going to share, I have learned that I like doing dioramas and ground work.  I have only done it once, but I have plans to repeat that a few more times.