Lynn Birks, grew up in the Pacific Northwest area and led an outwardly normal life. Always interested in art, Lynn decided to pursue an art degree at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland Oregon after high school but dropped out because it was an overpriced clone factory of crap.  Several jobs later, some quite exotic, Lynn began working on art alone and held her first show at the now defunct Sit & Spin of Seattle Washington in 1998. Unsucessful, but undaunted, she continued to piddle with drawing and painting until meeting Joe Graziano and becoming brainwashed by his model kit building ways. The outwardly normal life then fell away to be replaced by the outwardly abnormal life of a model kit geek. Lynn has won several awards both locally and nationally for model kit buildups as well as the respect and admiration of guys in this “boy’s club” hobby. Lynn continues to work on model kits, drawing, painting and her collection of model hearses and other funeral related matter. She also adores sci-fi, Farscape, and fuzzy kittens. Joe and Lynn married in September of 2003.