I also learned from my dad. I remember helping him build a Testors Top Gun F14A and an original Revell Stone, Woods, and Cook 41 Willys with opening doors. Then when I was 12-13 I built a few of my own models, I remember building the Revell Pontiac Banshee without any paint, all glue
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funny looking thing...
Back then I was really into Lowrider's, I built the Metallic green Impala from "Boyz N The Hood" among a few other lowriders (some of them hopped, very poorly). All were pretty horrible attempts btw.
From there I took a 12 year hiatus. Then a friend of mine started working at a hobby shop, kinda got me back into it. I then found AF, the greatest on-line source for modeling, and have been hooked ever since.
JeFF
btw: its really cool to hear other peoples stories.