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Show HERALD DAILY Sunday, August 31. 2008 Carina Wadley 17 ' for five years because the altitude in racing. 1 love the races they have down and start over. Thats the time have a model of every plane that was at air shews. everbuik. you almost want to throw k against In fact, someday he'd like to have thewalL His home is filled with his finished TAYLORSVILLE Picture a Models come in aU degrees of wkh that for awhile, but then with a museum an international museum planes and wkh the trophies hes colSyear-ollected at various model competitions. of transportation that would include boy looking on wkh awe at family and all, I couldnt afford to difficulty and price, he says. Its Last April he took first place for the something he has never seen before: keep it up always nice to get one that just flows models of everything man has come A De HaviDand 1X14 the kind of best World War II biplane. It was The TB had been contracted whije together. up wkh in the way of transportation, plane used as a bomber in World War Shay was serving in the Navy in The thing is, he says, you can put from shoes to elephants, camels and actually one I made a few years ago. I has landed in a nearby cornfield, it together so k looks like a toy. Or World War II, although k wasnt diag- The show was coming up, and I dehorses, to rafts and canoes. Everyand the pilot is taking people for rides. nosed until a while after his discharge. cided I didn't have time to build a new you can put k together so k looks thing that moved on land, sea or air, Of course, I didbnl get to go up, like a real airplane just zapped down hesays. When Shay enlisted in the Navy, one, so I took that off the shelf. but that piqued my interest, Douglas he had hoped to go into the air corps. But that's not going to happen to there. Thats what I like to da The museum could be a place J. Shay says. Ive been crazy about But at that time, they wanted men him when the September show rolls Its just a lot of fun, learning about where modelers could donate their ..... collections. Nobodys going to around. He's already hard at work on the planes and putting the pieces wkh a college degree. airplanes ever since. When he was 12, a friend gave him' He was stationed on a destroyer in a Hawker Hurricane for that show at together, he says. Hed like to see appreciate a model collection like ' a model of a China Clipper. That was the Soikh Pacific, We did get close more kids try it. He thinks theyd en- another modeler, he says. What Ogdens Union Station. back in the days when models were to an aircraft carrier time or two, Shay belongs to two modeling joy k. So many kids get a model and happens is that a lot of guys die and made out of blocks of wood. They he says, and those times were pretty their wives and families dont know dont know what to do wkh it. groups, the Northern Utah Scale If kids would like to get into modModelers Association, based out of what to do wkh the collection. They ; gave you a general pattern, and you speciaL had to figure it all out." Hes been .. But if Shay didn't end up flying Ogden, and the Sak Lake Chapter of eling, he advises, get a kk and start. end up putting k on eBay just to get crazy about models ever since. planes, they still became a part of his the International Plastic Modelers So- Maybe you and your dad could work . k out of the house. Or they let the Now at 81, Shay has had a good, life. For one thing, he worked at Hill on k together. And if your dad cant ; grandkidsplay with them. But you ' ciety. I was president of that group for five years a while back. longtime to enjoy both passions, and Air Force Base far some 23 years. help you, maybe your grandfather , .cant play wkh these planes. They -- I r hes not done yet. His Taylorsville He still gets a lot of enjoyment out can.. That put me close to the planes." One are too delicate.. v ; home has two closets filled with kits, of his jobs there, he says, was paintof fitting pieces together, sanding By working on model planes, you Airplanes are not all that fills down the lines, painting and adding maybe a couple of thousand or more, ing the landing gear on the develop a real love for them, he Shays life, however. Hes written he says that hed like to get to some At the end 1 wash high priority . details. Kks started out as wood, but says. poetry and even hud a poem pub- - .. ' ' materials security, and I could go day. nearly all are now plastic. "Plastics ; . Shay has spent some time design-:- , jished in an anthology. Hes taken I just love airplanes, he says. classes in art and has done paintings anywhere on base. He hung out wkh a real soft material, he says. You ing aircraft and has notebooks full His one big regret is that he never the planes a lot. of designs. Hes also treated what he that decorate his house and others. have to be careful what you da. earned his commercial pilot's license. But there have also been his modAnd even when you tike care and calls Shays Air Force, where hes He has a published song to his credit ' He was wkhin20 hours of completels. He has tended to specialize in He has three novels that hes workgo skwy, things can go wrong. As ; taken bks and pieces of different models mostly World War careful as you can be, sometimes you planes and put them together in dif--, ing on. ing it when he landed in a Denver what you call prop-jobtouch a part thats not quite diy.and ; ferent ways. He's even thrown a few There are so many things to do, hospital with tuberculosis. Because Aktough of medical procedures related to that Ive done a few jets, too. He also UFOs and spaceships into the mix. he says. 1 joke that 111 have to live you leave a fingerprint. Theres no disease, they told me I couldnt fly v likes planes that have been involved until Im 101 way to get rjd of k except to sand k Someday, he says, he'd like to ' CANYON change could collapse my hing. 1 had a private license, and I kept current COUNTRY EXCHANGE . d - -- . . . . . . ; . . . . CS-A- s. . . . -- . . a ' . .. .. S Crews making gains on fire near Moab this weekend will dampen the flames. Several campgrounds and roads in the area remain Oews on Satur-- , dosed. 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