A Very Unimportant Completion of a Project 25 Years in the Making

 Tonight's blog post is quite a bit different than my usual post.  It's more fun and not of any real importance, but it marks the end of a project I started more than a quarter century ago! 

There are WAAAAY more important things in life to focus on, especially as a disciple, but this was an accomplishment of sorts either way, and finishing up an abandoned project.

When I returned from Europe in 2023, I drove to Yakima and brought back some boxes stored at my stepmom's house and after several months, I went through everything I had, and realized I still had an unfinished plastic model that I bought 1998 or 1999.  It was a model of a real car that I had just recently purchased, a 1972 Honda N600.  The model kit was of a 1967 Honda N360, which was, from it's looks, pretty much identical to the '72 N600.

My actual 1972 Honda N600 on the date I sold it in 2013.

The model I just completed!

I still have all my model paints, brushes, thinner, sandpaper, glue, etc. (even with the price tags on them!)  Man, those things sure have gone up in price in 25 years.  Insane! 

So why am I even sharing this?  I'm not sure other than it felt really good to finish a project that I started nearly half my life ago! It gave me a tremendous sense of accomplishment!  By the way, I hadn't built a model since probably the early 1980's, so I watched some YouTube videos on how to do some things.  I'm glad I did.  

Now, one thing about this car.  The real car is tiny.  But this thing, WOW, it's SOOO tiny. It's a 1/32 scale model!  Now as a chunky man with chubby fingers, this was a REAL challenge to build!  One of the pieces was so small that you couldn't even tell it was a part.  It was a marker light (the tiny blinker light on the front fender).  Here are a couple pictures of HOW utterly small this thing is.  

That very small clear/orange plastic piece to the right of the quarter is the marker light.  By far the smallest model piece I've ever handled! It's so small that I actually lost one in my carpet.  There's no possible way I would ever find it again. It's the size of the "A" on the quarter!

SO . VERY . SMALL!

Here are a few more pictures of my model.  It seems so silly to post these, but honestly, it was an accomplishment!  

By the way, just in case anyone was curious, I actually finished the model between calls when I was working from home. Even with that, it took *months* to finish because you can only do one small thing at a time. 5 minutes of work, then wait for paint or glue to dry. 

Doing this project kind of made me remember my childhood when I loved to build models. I probably won't do any more, but it sure was fun to finish this one up finally!

Anyway, thanks for stopping by for a little more light-hearted blog post and have a great week and a safe 4th of July!