I “built” my first model at age 3, with a lot of help from dad. It was Monogram’s P-40B Flying Tiger. Model building was what I did as a kid until I discovered that I was decent at baseball and had an interest in the opposite sex. Even though I largely quit modeling while in high school, college, and early career, the bug never left me. In 1995, I found myself in a K-Mart store, where I came across a big Revell Beaufighter, an airplane I liked the looks of but had never built. And that was what got me back into modeling.