Interesting post!     Although I research my subjects.... Mostly after I buy them...  The machine's look and box art sometimes gets the better of me... First!

I am not exclusive when it comes to airframes....  WWI, II, Modern, everything goes!   Nor I solely buy stuff that I can Canadianize....  If I can, good! But it's not my goal.

With the Internet and various research books I choose my subject and learn about it's design phase and the role it played.....  And sometime the demise of that aircraft.    Like in the case of my CH-113 Voyageur...  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/limestonecitymodelers/photos/album/681441903/pic/368387664/view

When the daughter of the doomed pilot contacted me directly after seeing my model online!

Asking for better shots, since it was the very same A/C her father flew and later died in a freak accident during a test flight!

This is when it really got me!   There are peoples connected to those machines... Something we often forget!   

Norm.