This thread brings back some good memories.
I was bored a couple of months back and decided to look in my attic and found some old kits that had been kicking around for about 15 years and felt the urge to make an old Heller Constellation that had been given to me many years before.
Used to have loads of Airfix kits as a kid but over the years they ended up in the bin or smashed up by myself in a fit of rage when something went wrong while making them!I now find that my patience is more tolerable the older I get.
Was never really a fan of Airfix the older I got as I found the quality and detail lacking as opposed to the likes of Monogram, Hasegewea, Tamiya, Fujmi and Italeri.
Now prefer 1/48 scale now as opposed to the tiny 1/72 which are more fiddly the older you get.
You can pick some good bargins on ebay quite a bit cheaper than in the shops.