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have often wondered what makes this hobby so special to me. I guess
that, above all other reasons, it helps me to connect with my childhood
and the many things that were so special about being a kid. It all
started when my Dad took to me to an airshow in Pune, at the Lohegaon
Airforce Base, in 1971. I will never forget the impression it left
on me.
On that day, I bought an ancient balsa wood model glider of a Spitfire.
I cannot remember how many times I broke and repaired that model,
but it kept me occupied, and out of trouble throughout that summer,
and it made me hungry for more.
As I look back on those years, I have come to understand that building
all those models served many purposes. It gave me an outlet to express
my fledgling creativity. I can now look at a plain, basic stripped-down
model and picture it as a finely detailed model ,simply by changing
the picture in my head. It honed my skills at following instructions
to assemble things,adept at discerning spatial relationships and developed
my basic problem-solving skills. It instilled in me a sense of symmetry
and organization...All these attributes serve me well in life today
as a practicing executive.
I write this, as we are in the process of loosing an entire generation
of modellers. The future generation of our hobby is growing up on
electronic games, and most of them will never benefit from all that
model building can bestow upon a young mind and propel a young man
or woman to success.
I write this also in an effort to re-introduce the art of creativity,
imagination and ideas, and to remind all of us that there is childhood
to be found even as we grow old!!!
Get in touch if you want to know a little bit more about being a kid!
I shall write on some tips about scale aeromedelling in this space
later. In the interim, get to a toy shop and pick up a Rs. 100/- airplane
model and put your self in the cockpit!
For more informationE-mail me at saha@bangalorebest.com
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