I hope you won’t get hooked on My Forgotten Hobby.

So what’s the story behind that 1/64th scale B-17?

I was walking home from school during lunch hour in 1958. There was this men’s store, on the corner of Jean-Talon Street and De Lorimier Street in Montreal, which had model kits in its display window.

The men’s store is not there anymore.

2035 Jean-Talon Street

There were two display windows, one on the left and one on the right. I stopped cold and I was mesmerized by what I saw.

Not men’s clothes…

Model airplanes!

I had never seen a model airplane before in my whole life. This was one of them although mine in the men’s store display was silver.

I have found the box top on the Internet.

I even found this instruction sheet.

Source

In 1958 this was an epiphany even though I had no idea what…