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<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\tModelling… The passion which inspires us to build models takes its strength from a variety of sources. For many active model-builders, the prime factor are happy reminiscences from childhood \u2013 memories of a form of entertainment from before the electronic games age. Something drove us to take up this hobby. For whatever reason it appeared to be natural, interesting, and engrossing. What inspired you to start building models?<\/p>\n
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I myself was drawn in by the stories told by my parents and grandparents, people who remembered the war, and I supplemented these tales with a ton of films and books from the period. But this was not enough, I wanted something more. My friends and I avidly read through aviation journals, looking for information about military aircraft. To us, the colour profiles published in \u201cSkrzydlata Polska\u201d and \u201cLetectvi a Kosmonautika\u201d were a revelation. Many times while building a model we had not the slightest understanding of the aeroplane that it depicted. Somehow, however, we started improving our knowledge. Before the first Squadron monographs became available on the Polish market, followed by other, more ambitious periodicals, and before the appearance of internationally recognized native publications, our basic source of knowledge were the \u201cTypy Broni i Uzbrojenia\u201d (TBiU, \u201cArms and Equipment Types\u201d), which were patterned after the English Profile Publications.<\/p>\n