Many many years ago the shy wee boy who would later paint this model was bullied badly at secondary school. Then he picked up the first of two very big chronic illnesses, before quietly failing most of his exams while his family broke up and he was kind of just left to it. After a few decades later he had got married to a brilliant lady, worked various average jobs, some of which were good at the time. Became self-employed three times, snagged a degree, got more confident and