A Little Bit of History Repeating?

Back when I started this blog I gave myself a “to do” list of Academy kits to build but despite the best intentions they didn’t really get built.

The P-39 was built, but if I’m honest I did not build it well, in fact it was awful and my inexperience was showed up somewhat. The P-51B looked like a good kit but I managed to make a series of mistakes which consigned it to the scrap pile, likewise with the Hellcat. The P-47 went the way of eBay and the Ju-87 remains unbuilt and may well be sold at some point in the future.

Now don’t get me wrong here, this isn’t an Academy bashing post, I was so keen to get back into modelling that I rushed, bought a stack of kits, made far too many mistakes and never achieved the original goals that I set out to achieve. And of course, I wrote off a whole lot of kits in the process.

Recently I took a break and decided to spend a bit of time going back to basics, practicing and taking a more steady approach to modelling. Of course this doesn’t make particularly good reading, which explains the absence of blog posts in the last few months, but it has been useful. Not feeling the need to do something with half an eye on how I will blog about it afterwards has also been a relief.

So back to the here and now.

Regular readers, (I’m surprised, but the stats do show that there are still some of you checking in), will notice that this blog has had an update. A new look and a new beginning. And you know what? I’ve just gone out and bought another Academy kit…