Scale car hobby and variety

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 t