So let's go back in time..............
Here I am in '57..... about 6
And still in Wichita, Kansas. I loved it there.
Dad had been working for Boeing aircraft since '52.
Three years later I was handed my instruction book for my B-17.
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So in late 1960 after studying that instruction book (
and having built an airplane kit nearly every week on a .50 a week allowance) I finally started on my big 1/72 scale Memphis Belle I had bought from the local drug store.
That was a long time ago but I remember it very clearly. I had a great Mom. Dad was always at work.
Ordinarily I would do my modeling in the basement but that day mom had cleared the kitchen table and surprised me with a 16 .oz Pepsi and a couple of Hardee Huskies that Friday evening.
So, that's how she got this picture.
That's the fuselage in my left hand
and
I had a mouth full of hamburger there.
(microwaves would'a been nice back then)
At 17 it was cars, girls, cars, girls,
& cars so there wasn't much time for models.
A few years later I found out that building models was much cheaper than the car/girl culture so except for a few burps or should I say 
"throwups" I've been at it ever since.
Modeling is where I was always mean't to be.
Well, I gotta go.