Leaderboard

I built this several years ago and it included my crude and 1st attempt at a base diorama.

ICM's imaginative subject matter drew me in on this kit, especially the included figures and graphic background image of the reactor in flames. Note the guy inside the corrugated tin checkpoint hut; my picture is not very good but he's sitting at a table with a phone to his ear, probably trying frantically to get intel from someone. The kit goes together quite well but I'm a sucker for post WWII Soviet military or regime, take your pick. It was pointed out to me by another modeler that the insignia on the cab door is incorrect; that is a Ukranian national flag emblem and this is a Russian truck.

OK. We have discussed the theories of relativity (not Einsteins!) comparing the 'old days' fondly remembered by many of us when kits were pocket money prices or not much more to today's prices. By and large our hobby is a lot less expensive than for example having a golf club membership with its relative green fees and frequent visits to the 19th hole. If any of us gets weeks of enjoyment out of building an 'expensive' kit it is cheaper in the long run than many other such activities. My interpretation of too expensive is only if I do not have enough disposable income to be able to afford a kit that I would like and any accoutrements to go with it above domestic necessities.