(and other things too!)
Hello! My name is David Lloyd-Jones, living in the UK, and in 1947 I started making and flying model aircraft for a hobby, and since that time, it has become an all-consuming passion with me (on reflection, I think it has become an obsession!).
I have tried almost every discipline you can imagine since then, including indoor models (still do), but my main interest nowadays is Radio Controlled models. Being truthful with myself, although I love outdoor free flight modelling, I am too old to run after them any more!
For many years during the aeromodelling time, I had also been a collector of antique toys - in particular tinplate toys and toy trains - (remember "Hornby" Trains?), and one day, I decided that as I collected toys and I was an Aeromodeller too, why was I not collecting model stuff as well - hence started "the rot" !!
By the way, if you have any old tin toys of any description you wish to sell - I still collect them too! (See my "other interests" page!).
So about 20 years ago I started collecting the Aeromodeller magazine again, with the intention of trying to complete a full set.
I had started buying the Aeromodeller with my pocket money as a boy, and my first issue was July 1951. Unfortunately, when I left home, my parents had a clear out (where have you heard that before?), and in my present collection there are absolutely none that originally belonged to me, I am sad to say!
Anyway, as time went on, it became progressively harder to find the "missing" issues, and I found myself having to buy more "mixed bundles" than I required, just to find the ones I needed!
Of course, in time, I started trying to complete other titles I now had oodles of too, and then I found myself with so many "spares", which is why you are now reading this!
I started going to "Swapmeets" with a car full of these spare magazines and found to my surprise, that you guys were collecting them too! After a few visits like this, modellers started telephoning me to ask whether I had a certain copies spare to fill their "gaps".
So it is your entire fault that I am strong in the arm (even if not in the brain) after hauling the boxes of magazines to Swapmeets around the country all these years!
In addition to the "sales" stock, I also have FULL runs of the following magazines from number 1 in my own collection, so if you require a reference, please ask!
UK Titles
Aeromodeller
Model Aircraft
Radio Control Models and Electronics (RCM&E)
Radio Modeller
Skyways
Model Aeroplane Constructor
Radio Control Model World (RCMW)
Aviation Modeller International (AMI)
RC Model Flyer
US Titles
Model Airplane News (MAN)
Radio Control Modeler (RCM)
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