What was your first Model ?

[Suetonius Paullinus]

@mikeland
Splendid little fella!
And I second the windmill

Cheers

SP

[Darkwing Duck]

That I can remember.....kit an Airfix Blenhiem, plastic figs Airfix Confederate Infantry, metal fig Minifigs 25mm British Foot Guards.

Still have the Minifigs.

[Biggus Dickus]

What is quite interesting here is most of us had a plastic aircraft kit, and quite a high percentage were Airfix!

[Big Al]

Well, it isn't surprising, really. I mean as a little boy, I remember loving all things to do with aeroplanes. BD, you and I are of similar age. We grew up in an era when jet aircraft were something that little lads would run outside to see and marvel at. I remember seeing the odd Spitfire still flying. Then, when I moved to Southern Africa, I would see all sorts of different aircraft. Lots of Dakotas, Impala jets as well as Hunters, Canberras and Provosts. We used to look up and try to recognise what went over. Never outgrew them to be honest.
I remember when the Lightnings were stood down. It was a lovely sunny day and I heard one high above, so ran outside and just lay on the grass in the back garden watching the pilot do all sorts of aerobatics in this wonderful aircraft for what seemed a lot longer than it actually was. It was bliss! And I was 30 at the time!

[Colonel White]

Another reason I think we had aircraft in particular Airfix ( not sue if any other makes were around then in the UK)as our first kits is due to the inspiration of the war films that were being screened then on tV as they nearly all involved aircraft eg Dambusters, 633 squadron ....We all of course wanted a bit of that!

[Big Al]

Another reason I think we had aircraft in particular Airfix ( not sue if any other makes were around then in the UK)as our first kits is due to the inspiration of the war films that were being screened then on tV as they nearly all involved aircraft eg Dambusters, 633 squadron ....We all of course wanted a bit of that!

Yes and if you remember, Ian McShane's character in The Battle of Britain, made his sons a couple models, who promptly ran off pretending to fly them! Exactly as we would have done

[Biggus Dickus]

Well, it isn't surprising, really. I mean as a little boy, I remember loving all things to do with aeroplanes. BD, you and I are of similar age. We grew up in an era when jet aircraft were something that little lads would run outside to see and marvel at. I remember seeing the odd Spitfire still flying. Then, when I moved to Southern Africa, I would see all sorts of different aircraft. Lots of Dakotas, Impala jets as well as Hunters, Canberras and Provosts. We used to look up and try to recognise what went over. Never outgrew them to be honest.
I remember when the Lightnings were stood down. It was a lovely sunny day and I heard one high above, so ran outside and just lay on the grass in the back garden watching the pilot do all sorts of aerobatics in this wonderful aircraft for what seemed a lot longer than it actually was. It was bliss! And I was 30 at the time!

Yes, i guess that is just about it!!! I remember one day walking home from school i must have been about 5 or 6 there was this simply unbelieveable noise.....I guess I momentarily thought the sky was fallen in!...I remember looking up to my right and saw what at the time I took to be Thunderbird one just above the roof tops (reality 200 feet off the ground, perhaps but extremely low and it was a very large aircraft!!) It went by so quickly I couldn't take it all in...it was the nose cone and the wings that made me think it was TB 1! The plane was on it's side..wing tip about 45 degrees to the ground.....It was actually a Lightening. I don't know if there were any Fighter bases near Andover at the time, but it couldn't have been anything else. God only knows what it was doing screaming above the roof tops but there you go.
I was a jibbering wreck for several hours after that!!!! it took a long time to convince me it wasn't thunderbird one, to be honest...when ever i think of that episode I see TB1 in my mind......but it couldn't have been, could it?

[Big Al]

it took a long time to convince me it wasn't thunderbird one, to be honest...when ever i think of that episode I see TB1 in my mind......but it couldn't have been, could it?

I'm not going dispel your boyhood dream, BD. It could have been!

[paulsmodellingworkshop]

It could have flown from Middle Wallop or Farnborough BD - that's not too far from Andover. The loudest aircraft (well noise for that matter) that I have ever heard is the Eurofighter screaming over my head at around 150-200 feet.

My first model as far as I remember was airfix 1/32nd commandos, either that or 1/72 hurricane.

[Cubster]

I once saw a Harrier make a very low speed, low altitude crash at a combined arms exercise/display.