johnorl65
Last Activity: 10-14-2019 04:53 AM
- About johnorl65
- Biography
- Born in Germany and immigrated to the United States with parents in 1959. My parents owned a bakery in the Chicago area. Went into the USAF for 9 years active and served in the reserves for an additional 21 years. Now retired have been building models since age 9. Over the last 56 years built model boat, cars, planes and helicopters as a professional model builder did
restorations to some of the Gibbs and Cox ships
while building and owning over 263 models in the collection. Built models for movies and research
as well as model company prototypes. Still doing
some special projects in 1 inch scale. - Location
- Nashville/Chicago/Nanjing
- Interests
- Boats/Drones/Helicopters