After Stephen/lone modeller showed recently about his model roots here are mine.
As young boy I started with some free flight models built with my father (I have no pictures). And free flight is not satisfactory. So I wanted to do RC but a RC system was totally out of reach of an young boy. So I decided to build my own RC system.
After education I started with RC helicopters. I'm doing this for some years, of course with much more modern computerized RC systems. The original plan was to do a scale model but I never realized that. With the upcoming drones the regulations are getting stronger. And the main reason to stop that: I had two helicopter types, where the company behind died so spare parts are not available anymore. So I moved to static modeling.
Cheers,
Frank
Edit: removed to deep personal insight