:welcome1: to the forum. Paper is much lighter and will be easier on your back, though it doesn't weld very well! Look forward to seeing your work, if there is anything particular you might be looking for, ask, and maybe we can point you towards it or something similar. This forum deals primarily with "free" models, that is our focus. You can post a build thread of a model you buy, we just don't allow private companies posting. Anyone can, at the end of a real build thread, post a link to a model they may have built for sale, or purchased, and wish to state where they got it from, that's fine, so long as it's the last post of that thread. I think there are so many 1000's of free high quality models out there, one could spending a lifetime building free models, enhancing them, and coming out with something better than you can buy.
Now, if you live in Europe, and have access to some of the models published there, there are a lot of beauties that would be well worth buying and building, but they aren't available, not reasonably, if at all, in the states.
