|
Don,
Nice to see the reference to Wallace Rigby. We perhaps have had a similar introduction to paper modeling.My mother bought me a book of WWII Paper Airplanes sometime during the War '44 or '45 when I was 5 or 6. They were die cut and had illustrations on how to build (I couldn't read much then anyway) but I did struggle with them. Remember using toothpicks to strengthen or reinforce them and also stuffing tissue paper in the wings and fuselage. These were my first models and I never forgot his name. I also built the Train and Submarines from later books in my early teens.
I was able to get a digital reprint book of the Aircraft about 15 years ago but believe it is no longer available. Ray Roberts with the Paper Airplane Museum in Maui once told me he had an original but I never got to see it.
John O
|