What was your first Model ?

[Biggus Dickus]

I was thinking about this last night.

The first model I ever made (with some major help from my dad) was an Airfix 1/72 curtis P40/Kittyhawk Fighter.
I believe the model was in bag with card header.
i was 4 (1969/70) at the time so needed some help with glue.....which was in metal tube, you had to snap off the nozzle and there was no lid....of course the glue went over everything but i was very pleased with my Plane and it set me off on my journey. The Plane wasn't around long enough to see any paint!
Having made thousands of model kits from virtually all manufacturers down the years, I'm now really only into 28mm.


Well that is how I got into this.....what was your first kit?

[pbeccas]

I had a Airfix 1/72 scale Zero fighter. I was about 9 years old. I painted it with green fence paint.

[Parus Ater]

The first I tried was a Boeing 747. It wasn't mine but my brothers but he wasn't interested in it I was too young to know what to do with it, though. My next was a packet of GW fantasy human spearmen when I was in the first year of high school. No idea which army they were but I'd lean towards Empire.

[Correus]

Airfix 1/72 Fokker Dr.I; a box of WWI Early war Germans and WWI Dough-boys in campaign hats!!

[Vogless]

No idea on the company, but it was a 1:144 scale snap together Lancaster Bomber. If not it was another WWII plane from the same company.

[NTM]

An Airfix plane of some sort, possibly F4 Phantom, mid/late 70's, built with/by my Dad (he got really cheesed off the day I decided I no longer needed his help)

[grant]

The first minis I ever owned were some Grenadier dwarfs. I used them for d&d.

First model was a 1:144 scale working wing action Panavia Tornado - in 1982ish. I have no idea who the manufacturer was. Neat kit though. I liked it because it scaled nicely with some Matchbox metal diecast that I had - an Arrow, and I think an A9. I didn't even paint it!

[Eumerin]

Something by Revell.

I built quite a few of their aircraft when I was younger, along with a handful by Monogram.

[Big Al]

Mine was a model of aircraft Bleriot crossed the Channel with. Can't remember the make now. It wasn't one of the famous brands like Airfix. A nice model too. I had help from my dad as well. I would be about 7 or 8 at the time, so that would be late '60s. My next one was the Airfix Lockheed Starfighter.

[Cubster]

Assuming we're not allowed to include the old plaster of Paris 'Shaker-Maker's mine was either an Airfix 'Bullfinches' kit or an Airfix 'Triceratops', can't remember.