For over 42 years I've been collecting model airplanes from various manufactures and scales.  My first model plane was a Matchbox B707 Continental, bought in 1982.  I still have that model that my cousin bought me.  Since then I've purchased just about anything with wings, even Micro Machines.  I made my first model kit a 1/200 Canadian DC-10-30, after that I made over 30 model kits and kept making them until I came across Herpa Models in 1/500 scale.  Within two years I collected close to 1500 1/500 Herpa Wings models only to start collecting 1/400 Gemini Jets.  In 2002 I started working for a local Aviation Enthusiast store and was with them for a total of nine years.  Combined with years of being a Ramp worker at Vancouver International, my time with the Canadian Armed Forces, being a Multi Rated Pilot both Fixed wing and Rotary, today I own a store in South Surrey B.C. which is a collectible store, watch and clock repairs as well. 

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