I was born in 1950 an built and decaled my first models at age 5 which was a 1:48 Hawk Supermarine S6-b Racer an a Hawk Grumman Panther F9F using Testors tube glue.
I got in to building motorized ship kits when I was 10/20 years old and had a lot of fun sailing them in ponds. (to be continued)