I'm into model airplanes as well as antique tractors, and a lot of this discussion is similar to what you hear in the model airplane hobby. "The children are the future of the hobby."
They might be the future, but they are the FAR future. Expose them to it at a young age and make it fun and interesting. They'll sock the experience away in the backs of their heads. They might come back to it when they're around 12 or so, for a couple of years, until they discover cars and the opposite gender.
When you really get them is when they turn 50. Now the kids are getting older, maybe moved out of the house even. Good job, lots of free time... Then they remeber that experience they had as a child, how much fun it was to play with old tractors, cars, model airplanes... Hey, maybe I ought to give that a try now that I can really settle down and concentrate on it!
The biggest influx of new members in my model airplane club is people in their 50s, and their stories are remarkably similar...
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