First all, it is nice to heard the voice of old friends.
AF years ago was a confortable nice ambient where meet fellow modelers and share passion: like most said FB stolen this activity. I have to say that is difficult also on FB to try to rend a "WIP", much easy to be in touch with fellows but the format is tricky to give continuity to a build,even on groups, steps goes fragmented and messed, or lost after a few.
The fun, Alex, is the timing of your post: in my opinion AF went almost died in the few last years and starts to show a bit of life by last year.
On my side I have my own responsibility: in past 6-7 years I built almost only airplanes and shared dioramas, won ton of great prizes to fill the trash bin, and back to my loved car's models with some new skill: from last year my AF contribution is focused on the Fulvias thread. So big job>1 only thread.
Nice to see this thread, hopefully it would give a contribution to AF back in shape. I'm pretty sure Forums would back.