I have reduced this part because it came out Bla, Bla, Bla. I thought I would let the models do the talking. it should be more entertaining any way.
In a nut shell.
9 years old, Free flight rubber power.
11 years old, first free flight design
15 years old, control line stunt.
20's RC boat racing
28th. birthday, my first four channel radio. three trainers and one motor later and I soloed.
I started numbering my models so my trainers would know how many models I've been through learning to fly. (excluding scale subjects)
From there I kit bashed every thing I touched.
I'm up to 192 models built. You might notice that every article I have published there is more than one model. This is to make sure I don't have a poor design out there.
It is gives me the perfect chance to test the patterns and work out any bugs the design may have.
So. . . .I guess I design bash my own stuff. ;)

I prefer building with foam, it's faster, lighter and looks better in my opinion.
My foam designs have not seen much traffic so I wrote a book in hopes of converting a few modelers. It cost me about a year and three grand to get it off the ground and It's doing OK.
It's in it's 5 th printing now and being sold in the UK.

Here is my path to 200 models. ( highlight to the right)
Enjoy the trip. ;)