...in 1999.... my start

The first time I got a model was in 1999. At the time, I owned a 1995 Honda civic hatchback DX. When I started to talk to Mege-san about the car scene, I saw that Tamiya had an red civic hatchback!

He got me that model and sent it to me. 

This was my first attempt with a model and I tried to replicate it to me like my actual car (sans the intercooler).

My EG at the time:

After that I dabbed in scale modeling bit by bit. I would go through waves of interests, then back off throughout the years. 

The height of my interests and getting models completed was in 2004. I had visited Japan 4 times and each time, I would bring back a few models. When I was in Japan, scale models could be found in many places and of course, it was Tamiya, Fujimi and Aoshima that was my aim. The price was usually $15 to $20.

Additionally, I was also in Gundam scale models at 1/144

When I stopped visiting Japan, I bought some models online, but I decided to put off the hobby because buying them from hobby stores was double or more. I couldn't justify it. 

Additionally, I had moved from Seattle (which I had space) and moved to San Francisco, California, where I had no space and was starting over (less paying job, focusing on school and barely getting by). Some of them sat as I didn't have time or space for them.

Sporadically, I would get a model and build it. These were the last few of my model building (2007) before I would again, not invest time into them.

Now, I never was an expert builder. I often sprayed the cars from the can. Some of the cars came in a really nice finish that I didn't want to mess it up. 

I still have all these models, but they are in storage containers.. all jumbled up! Which means at some point, I will have to go through them again and fix/improve them.