Tonight I've come up with a great way to complement modeling with my main hobby (reading). Off to find a model in 1/48 scale of a Junkers Ju-52 in memory of a book I read 15 years ago. After that it will be the plane flown by Col. Craig Lowell from the W.E.B. Griffin series.
Come to think of it, this approach leads to all kinds of diorama possibilities.