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<html><head><title>An Aviation Enthusiast's Kit Collection</title></head><body style="background-color: #C0C0C0"><table class="style2" style="width: 960px; height: 907px;"><tr><td><br/><table class="style1" style="width: 900px"><tr><td class="style7">An Aviation Enthusiast's Kit Collection</td></tr></table><br/><table class="style8" style="width: 900px; height: 40px;"><tr><td class="style9"><a>Home</a></td><td class="style9"><a>How it All Began</a></td><td class="style9"><a>50's &amp; 60's</a></td><td class="style9"><a>1970 up</a></td><td class="style9"><a>Various Topics</a></td><td class="style9"><a>Books</a></td><td class="style9"><a>Contact</a></td></tr></table><br/><table class="style1" style="width: 898px"><tr><td><img height="100" src="com/pics/lysander.jpg" width="200"/></td><td style="text-align: left"><img height="100" src="com/pics/starfire.jpg" width="236"/></td><td style="text-align: left"><img height="100" src="com/pics/sealand.jpg" width="180"/></td><td style="text-align: left"><img height="100" src="com/pics/b314.jpg" width="282"/></td></tr></table><br/><table class="style1" style="width: 900px; "><tr><td class="auto-style1" style="width: 430px; "><strong><span class="style11">Introduction</span></strong><br/><br/>
				The plastic kits - mostly aircraft - I built in my youth from 
				the late 1950´s to the late 1960´s never got out of my mind. 
				They have been lost long since, but even 45 years later I´m 
				still able to list all these kits.<br/><br/>
				My memories of early modelling are recorded in the section How 
				it all Began of this website. Together with books and magazines 
				from the 50's and 60's these kits laid the foundation of my 
				current interest in aviation.<br/><br/>
				When I dicovered eBay in April 2003 I immediately looked for 
				some examples of those kits, was successful and started to "buy 
				back" and collect <em>kits I remember</em>. This helped a lot 
				finding my peace of mind in reappraising my modelling past .<br/><br/>
				Searching for kits I built in the 50's and 60's I discovered and 
				learned to like kits issued in this period which I do <em>not 
				remember</em>. That expanded my original theme of collecting.<br/><br/>
				Both group of kits are listed and reviewed in the section<br/>
				50's &amp; 60's of this website. Seen with my eyes of today, boxart 
				plays an important role in this nostalgic look at plastic kits.
				<br/><br/>
				Coming in contact with the modelling world again I was tempted 
				to expand the scope of collecting even further. Being a fanatic 
				aircraft type collector with a long latent love to plastic kits 
				in general, I started to buy and collect even out of production 
				plastic kits issued after 1970 as well as kits produced 
				currently. Stress is more on the type of aircraft here and the 
				intention to build the kits sometime or other. These kits are 
				listed and reviewed in the section 1970 up.</td><td style="width: 40px; "></td><td class="auto-style1" style="width: 430px; "><strong><span class="style12">Plastic Kits</span></strong><br/><br/>
				In the last years (as for April 2015, when I revised his page) I 
				got more and more envolved in researching the history of lesser 
				known brands from the 50's and 60's. The style of collecting has 
				changed. I concentrate more on aquiring kits for documenting 
				history as just for collectibility. That is to the expense of 
				presenting post 1970 kits in this website and buying more post 
				1970 kits. <br/><br/>
				Don´t be surprised to find missiles and ships in an aviation 
				enthusiast's website. They belong to my early modelling history. 
				They had an almost equal fascination for me as aeroplanes. That 
				does not have changed up to now, though, I have not as much 
				background knowledge and references as with aeroplanes.<br/><br/>
				Civil and military vehicles are beyond my interests today and 
				will not be treated in this website apart from a few nostalgic 
				exceptions: AIRFIX/Plasty's Ferguson tractor and REVELL's "cars 
				with fins". As for 2015 these exceptions  have been 
				expanded to historic cars (thanks to my occupation with the 
				early history of Revell) and to civil figures (thanks to my 
				occupation with the Aeros kits).<br/><br/>
				In the navigation bar I include the link  Books, a section 
				of my <a>Aircraft Type Collection</a> 
				website dealing with a nostalgic look at books from the 1950's 
				and 60's.</td></tr></table><table class="style1" style="width: 900px"><tr><td> </td></tr></table><table class="style8" style="width: 900px; height: 40px;"><tr><td class="style3"><a>Home</a></td><td class="style3"><a>How it All Began</a></td><td class="style3"><a>50's &amp; 60's</a></td><td class="style3"><a>1970 up</a></td><td class="style3"><a>Various Topics</a></td><td class="style3"><a>Books</a></td><td class="style3"><a>Contact</a></td></tr></table><br/><table class="style1" style="width: 800px"><tr><td style="width: 170px; height: 0">Started: 2003</td><td>Revised: Nov. 2009 / April 2015</td><td class="style10">Author: cjk</td><td> <span class="style6">©</span>cjk </td></tr></table><br/></td></tr></table><style>.style1 {
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