[Ross]

Originally Posted by davidmog99

Its a little known fact that a certain Mr Abramovich, Chelsea owner, started working in his parents small model shop in Stalingrad. In the 80s they specialised in illegally imported Hornby trains, bootleg tamiya plastic model kits, and had carefully concealed scale plans for european designed aircraft under the counter. When Gorbachev relaxed rules for trade and encouraged other communists to embrace "Glasnost" (openness), the shops sales of balsa wood increased by 400% overnight. Roman immediately decided to kill his parents and take over.
Roman invested the roubles he made from their life insurance in radio control model kits, which were no longer illegal.
Roman enjoyed a moderately successful carrer in r/c car racing, until the untimely death of his closest rival, ivan klunkter, who fell to his death from the rostrum at abramovich raceway, which adjoined the shop.
During the mid 1990s, after the break up of the soviet union, many russians discovered radio control modelling as a hobby, as an alternative to the vodka based recreation enforced by the communist government.
Roman quickly stocked up on the newest models, and found they required fuel or "nitro". He ordered four gallons. When the fuel arrived, he was astounded by the price. Quickly examining the profit/loss account for his model shop, he realised the producer of the fuel earned almost half as much profit as him on his most popular lines. A quick call to his accountants, then the bank, and the crafty bastard had merged the two companies in a hostile takeover! SIBNEFT Models was born!