model kits

I have a lot of kits but haven't really done any since I got married and had kids. Now I have cats also and no way of shutting myself away from everyone. Used to do it just to get my mind off things. Been really needing to get back to building them again! I'm starting to like the weathered/needing resto look. Honestly, think the models look more realistic that way then as a pristine show room car. Some beaters I have seen would be hard to distinguish from the real thing if you had nothing to reference its scale in a photograph.