My Dad was into model railroading. We had a huge layout in the basement that he was always adding to.

I never really caught the RR bug. I remember him and I building a large balsa glider of  a Vulcan Bomber, I think it was one of the Easymodel kits. And I remember as a kid building aircraft and helicopter plastic kits. I sort of kept up with the balsa kits. Built lot of gliders and rubber power, then advanced to control line. By high school, had pretty much stopped building.

 After college and started working, the model bug hit again, this time RC. All my aircraft were balsa builds. never got into the fiberglass and ARF kits. I liked building from scratch. Did this for quite a few years, but it eventually just got too expensive to put an aircraft into the air and gave it up. In the intervening years did some RC Cars and boats, along with plastic armor, cars and aircraft, but not as a full time hobby. In 2004 I was the victim of a motor vehicle accident, which left me partially crippled and out of a career.

 While convalescing and with funds short, had to take up something to keep my mind and hands active. I stumbled upon Card Modeling. Upon investigation found lots of models online for free, which at the time was good. Started with the simple stuff and slowly worked my way up as my skills progressed. I really enjoyed it.

 Now retired I'm full time modelling along with some other interests. Mostly with the Card Models but do want to do some plastic again, there are a couple of kits that have been in my stash for quite a while. 

 Jim