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The Model Box 2.0 is a hobby Shop located at 1921 Hoover Court in Hoover, Alabama. The shop owner/operator is best known to us as Swiss1 (aka Jeremy Hartmann).
What you may not know is that the shop suffered a devastating fire in June, 2013...Hence the 2.0 added to its name. A week prior to the fire, Jeremy's beautiful scale Musger Mg 19a sailplane won the best in show award at the Horizon Hobby Aerotow in Monticello, Illinois.
An article about the plane was published in RC Soaring Digest: http://www.rcsoaringdigest.com/pdfs/...SD-2013-08.pdf
The fuselage of the Musger is mounted on the wall inside the front door of the shop as a reminder of the tragic event.
This past week, we had a chance to visit Jeremy's beautiful shop. Our eleven day trip took us from Maryland down through West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas,into Texas to visit with friends and family. On the way down to Texas, we stayed the first night in Lexington, KY and met Mike Kelly for breakfast the next morning in Elizabethtown, KY. We traveled on south and stopped by the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY and spent that night in Lonoke, AK just east of Little Rock. On the third day, we arrived in Whitehouse, Texas (near Tyler) and spent the night with one of my flying buddies from back in the 1990's. He moved to Texas with his job in 1999, so it was great to catch up and remember the good times. Day four took us further south through Waco,Temple, Killeen, Lampasa, Burnet, Marble Falls and on south to San Antonio where we stayed with family for the next three days. Starting back, we drove to Shreveport, LA and then on to Hoover, Alabama the next day. Jeremy had a welcoming committee at his shop and we were treated to some of the best southern hospitality you could ask for!
We arrived in Hoover just before dark and found the shop:
Upon entering, we found father and daughter debating a computer setup issue...I think their expressions are priceless!
We made a photographic sweep left to right around the front of the shop upon entering. Note the Musger hanging on the right side wall.
What you may not know is that the shop suffered a devastating fire in June, 2013...Hence the 2.0 added to its name. A week prior to the fire, Jeremy's beautiful scale Musger Mg 19a sailplane won the best in show award at the Horizon Hobby Aerotow in Monticello, Illinois.
An article about the plane was published in RC Soaring Digest: http://www.rcsoaringdigest.com/pdfs/...SD-2013-08.pdf
The fuselage of the Musger is mounted on the wall inside the front door of the shop as a reminder of the tragic event.
This past week, we had a chance to visit Jeremy's beautiful shop. Our eleven day trip took us from Maryland down through West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas,into Texas to visit with friends and family. On the way down to Texas, we stayed the first night in Lexington, KY and met Mike Kelly for breakfast the next morning in Elizabethtown, KY. We traveled on south and stopped by the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY and spent that night in Lonoke, AK just east of Little Rock. On the third day, we arrived in Whitehouse, Texas (near Tyler) and spent the night with one of my flying buddies from back in the 1990's. He moved to Texas with his job in 1999, so it was great to catch up and remember the good times. Day four took us further south through Waco,Temple, Killeen, Lampasa, Burnet, Marble Falls and on south to San Antonio where we stayed with family for the next three days. Starting back, we drove to Shreveport, LA and then on to Hoover, Alabama the next day. Jeremy had a welcoming committee at his shop and we were treated to some of the best southern hospitality you could ask for!
We arrived in Hoover just before dark and found the shop:
Upon entering, we found father and daughter debating a computer setup issue...I think their expressions are priceless!
We made a photographic sweep left to right around the front of the shop upon entering. Note the Musger hanging on the right side wall.
AAA TT TN
Thanks, Jim, for the great job in featuring it.
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