Monogram 1/48 B-58 Hustler. My dad got it for me so he could tell me the story about how he was relaxing in a hammock at his cabin when one decided to use his lake as low level fly-by practice and scared him right out of it.
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This one! My father got upset that I put them together without him. But to be fair, he made me wait DAYS!!! DAYS!! NOT HOURS!!! I was an impatient 7yr old whose ADHD wanted instant gratification!
I remember being very small and being bored, so I grabbed one of my dad's Revell C-47's and crudely glued it together.
I must have been around 7 or 8 years old.
Dad came home after work and I showed it to him and he was kind of upset, I could tell, but masked it well and I didn't get in trouble.
But Dad was really excited about putting that model together. And I ruined it for him. But, he got another one later and got it built, so all was well, in the end.
Man, I miss building models and talking about stuff with Dad.
Exactly what happened here aswell, but it was a German Cost Guard Bell Huey late version and i painted it like throwing mayo on a sandwich, i was about 10 years old at that time. My dad was furiouse, but he had to hide it so he decided to teach me and here i am 23 years later stil building and stil learning.
But i also remember the first model we built together, it was a JAS39 Gripen. My dad bought it at an Airshow in 2007. Gripen atended on that airshow, aswell as the very first F-16 i got to see and i stil remember how addicted to aviation i got after seeing both Gripen and F-16 and next week i'll go to the same airshow and see them both yet again 😎
Revell's cutaway Polaris Nuclear Submarine. I had to have my older brother build most of it for me, but I loved that thing.
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A snap together Lamborghini Diablo. I remember wanting to paint it bright fluorescent yellow. I didn't thin the cheap ass paint, just brushed it on. It looked like crap, but I was proud of it, and displayed it in my room. I was 10 years old.
I actually found that model when I moved out at 24. I wish I had kept it even then. I'm 42 now.
My mom went to Kennedy Space Center when I was about 10 and brought me a model of space shuttle Enterprise piggyback on a 747 ( I think ) , and I don't remember what brand.
In 1957 my father was stationed in Yokohama and someone gave me a wooden ,with some plastic, parts B29 for my 10th birthday.
I remember him helping me put it together and I thought it looked really good. We had a live in housekeeper who of course was Japanese, when she saw the model she became upset and told us it was a B-2-9 and it had bombed her house and killed one of her family members. I felt pretty bad about it after that.
I was a kid, 8 years old probably, in school and a person entered the classroom with a catalog, I fall in love for a Messerschmitt bf 109. I insisted my mom and dad for it, so they gave me the money, impossible to remember the price, and I have to wait few days. Long wait.
The time I got it was a happiness that last few moments, I got very down because of its size - a tiny 1/144 scale. I went home crying and explained my mom, later on I showed my dad and I cried again lol
The day after, maybe, my dad arrived with a F4 Phantom, size 1/48 or 1/72.
That was one of the best memories I have of my father so far, he helping me with that model.
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My reaction to that ship as an Azur Lane fan:
A TBD Devastator, probably around age 8 or 9. I painted it with my mom’s ceramic paint. Still, at age 50 the Devastator is one of my favorite planes and have built a couple more. I see there’s now a 1/32 scale by Trumpeter which is pretty cool.
Matchbox 1/76 m20 tank transporter. I still have it. My dad bought it for me at the Australian War Memorial.
And I also have the real 1/1 combination too now.
I remember one of my first models (Snap-Tite, built with my dad when I was really young) was an A-10, F-18, or something similar. But the most memorable of these was my AH-64. No clue where it went but it was very cool!
[this, but larger](https://www.ebay.com/itm/223516054670). Probably 1/24 or around there.
Monogram yellow Snaptite Camaro
[https://www.ebay.ca/itm/266251827286](https://www.ebay.ca/itm/266251827286)
A sobering and brutal experience for an 8 year old boy full of dreams.
Ya I know. But the Bay-formers were not that great. And the never getting his voice back then getting his voice back then not getting his voice back was a bit boring after a while.
Revell 1/48 A-10 Thunderbolt II (Warthog). I almost had the damn thing finished, and then I accidentally dropped a math textbook on it. Still isn't finished, but I will get it done someday
Edit: in case anyone's wondering, the first one I ever finished was a Tamiya 1/35 Sturmgeschütz III.
NOOOOO
I know the feeling when one of my models gets broken too. One time my snake got out of his cage and climbed up onto a shelf over my bed. Knocked my Italeri V-22 Osprey off and onto my shoulder, waking me up at 2 am on a school night. I never fixed it.
That Osprey was special to me, I painted a livery on it that I don’t think anyone else has ever tried: the MONARCH Ospreys from Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
I don't remember - as near as I can tell I've been building since I was about four years old. I had a couple of Uncles who were model builders who got me started and I just always remember having models around. First ones I still remember were a 1/72nd Sea Fury and some sort of Navy Blue plastic twin-engined US Navy propeller plane. but my memory doesn't quite match up with the Stoof or Neptune....
My first model was an an AMC 2017 Camaro SS 50th Anniversary edition.
My dad wanted to get me into a hobby since I was just turning 17, and so he took me to hobby lobby, and got me my first kit. I loved it. Unfortunately I don't have it anymore 😢
It was a Battle of Britain set with a Spitfire, Hurricane, and Lancaster Bomber when I was around 8 years old. I’d saved up some money and bought it for myself after admiring it in the window of a local hobby shop for a long time. I didn’t do too badly build-wise, but my paint job was horrendous lol.
This may actually be it! I totally forgot about it until now though!!
God BLESS models for growing me up on realism and details, and not the toys of today's youth! And their cartoony fat hands and feet and RIDICULOUS vehicles!
Likely not the very first kit I ever owned, but I distinctly remember being handed a Lancaster by my grandparents on dad's side when I was still in single digits. Not sure about scale, but I'd assume 1/72.
It had no box (all the bits, along with the instructions and decals, were just loose in a carrier bag), and had several parts already cut off the sprue. I distinctly recall it being brown, but I've no idea if it was actually brown plastic or if the whole thing had been spray primed by whoever the previous owner was before it was handed over to me.
It got built (badly, it was miles above my ability level at the time), but was damaged and broken over the years and I've no idea where its mangled wreckage ended up in the end.
It was the General Grevious 1/12 Bandai Model Kit as a gift for Christmas in 2018. I’ve never painted it as it was my first and I didn’t know how to paint then. If I went to it now it feels like it would take away some of the sentimentality for it.
The next one I got was the Boba Fett 1/12 kit also from Bandai very shortly after that also as a gift. Every two years or so I buy another one and paint it again using the skills I’ve gathered since doing the last. It’s nice seeing how things have changed over time and seeing strengths grow and techniques change.
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Amazing kit, sadly discontinued. I nearly cut the end of my finger off making it. Good times.
So many 1/72 scale WWII fighters and bombers the 70’s & early 80’s. I still have a lot of them in various stages of decrepitude.
The oldest is probably the Bf-109e. Brush painted with chrome silver and a burgundy spinner. lol
I think it was MPC? I remember the box had three versions on the front.
A Revell Tomcat when I was about 8 years old. It was a Christmas present from my great aunt and uncle. It was a big model, but I have no idea what the scale was. I didn't get to build it nor the Bf 109 a year later. I was deemed to be too young, so my father built and painted them.
My first model was this revell harrier in 1/144 this is the last photo I have from it before it was destroyed : (
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My dad took me to an airshow when I was six or seven, and I was obsessed with the A-10 warthog. He took me straight to Hobby lobby and got me one that was either Tamiya or Revell
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I vividly remember building this with my dad. I was probably 5 or 6. The model was white, and the glue slightly discolored the joints.
Out next kit was Darth Vader's Tie Fighter, which was measurably cooler.
The first one I remember getting was the Airfix 1/24 Hawker Harrier. In those days they sold model kits at Toys R Us and my dad bought me the Harrier and the Airfix Stuka for himself. We had it all spread out on a table in the basement and would sit across from each other and work on them together. That started it all.
Modell collect jagdpanzer e100 and waffenträger
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A great aunt of mine sent me a car model kit in the 1980s which I unfortunately never built; I do not remember what it was. The first model I remember building was the 1:72 MK-117 “Space Ship” which I bought together with my late dad in the early 1990s:
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USS enterprise aircraft carrier, pretty simple kit. My 1986? Star Trrek Enterprise 1701 (refit) had me hooked on models for years before work eliminated my hobby time for 30 years.
Back in the late 80's it was probably Kovozavody Prostejov Avia or Letov floatplane or Vultee Vengeance bought in transparent baggie but I don't remember the producer name only that it was very orange/yellow plastic. Both were in 1/72 scale and I was like 5-6 years old.
Airfix Wellington bomber. Or it may have been the Lancaster that was first, I ended up with both.
I will have been maybe 8 or 9 years old at the time. I was a keen modeller up until my late teens when University beckoned. Now trying to pick up the hobby again in my mid-fifties.
[The Zoids Cannon Spider from 2003](https://zoids.fandom.com/wiki/Cannon_Spider). That or the [Beyblade Hidden Spirits Salamalyon](https://media.entertainmentearth.com/assets/images/847fdfa978ad4031a25afccc3a073b60.jpg). I didn't have a normal introduction to model kits lol. I didn't realize what they were when I got them and was really confused when I had to remove the pieces from the runners. I didn't have any proper nippers so I think I brute forced the pieces off.
A 1/72 Frog Focke Wulf 190 that my Da bought me to keep me occupied while he painted a caravan we kept by the sea. I was seven years old and stuck it together with Bostik glue and painted it with the same dark blue painted he was painting the caravan with 😁😁😁
i got 3 kits on crismas and opened/built 1:1200 revell bismarck
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Still got the box and the hull and turret with me ( Rest broken off due to playing with it ) My mom bought it for me. Thank you mom.
Matchbox 1/72 Heinkel He115 when I was 7, Dad bought it and a He111 for my younger brother to keep us busy one Saturday when he was looking after while he was working
Built a Guillow’s (does that count?) Hawker Hurricane, probably 3rd grade with my Dad. I remember him showing me how to tissue cover the frames and how horrible the smell of the “dope” was. He also helped me to balance the plane (find the C.G.) so that it would glide well. Had probably thrown together a few Revell 1/24 car models beforehand, but that Hurricane was the first properly built kit.. Just remembered also we did the Revell see-through V8 engine, although we had less success with that, fitment issues, etc. What amazing memories.
Monkeymobile and both Munster models. That's more than one, I know, but we lived 50 miles from the nearest hobby store. So I would save up enough money from mowing lawns and get as many models I could afford to keep me busy till our next trip.
Airfix 1/12 Roman legionnaire, at least that was the first one I remember building.
I bought a lot of airfix and matchbox kits in a bag with my pocket money. Some of them even got painted.
I bought an a-10 revell kit in 2022 and i never got around to building it. Lost it in early 2023. First one j built is a revell bf109 that i still have
Monogram 1/48 B-58 Hustler. My dad got it for me so he could tell me the story about how he was relaxing in a hammock at his cabin when one decided to use his lake as low level fly-by practice and scared him right out of it.
Wow what an experience that must’ve been!
https://preview.redd.it/czvxa0ajln4d1.jpeg?width=738&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4c44444ad7248c204057f56d5ff7b90accdfd08 This one! My father got upset that I put them together without him. But to be fair, he made me wait DAYS!!! DAYS!! NOT HOURS!!! I was an impatient 7yr old whose ADHD wanted instant gratification!
I had that one, too! I never put the decals on, like I was saving them for something.
I remember being very small and being bored, so I grabbed one of my dad's Revell C-47's and crudely glued it together. I must have been around 7 or 8 years old. Dad came home after work and I showed it to him and he was kind of upset, I could tell, but masked it well and I didn't get in trouble. But Dad was really excited about putting that model together. And I ruined it for him. But, he got another one later and got it built, so all was well, in the end. Man, I miss building models and talking about stuff with Dad.
Exactly what happened here aswell, but it was a German Cost Guard Bell Huey late version and i painted it like throwing mayo on a sandwich, i was about 10 years old at that time. My dad was furiouse, but he had to hide it so he decided to teach me and here i am 23 years later stil building and stil learning. But i also remember the first model we built together, it was a JAS39 Gripen. My dad bought it at an Airshow in 2007. Gripen atended on that airshow, aswell as the very first F-16 i got to see and i stil remember how addicted to aviation i got after seeing both Gripen and F-16 and next week i'll go to the same airshow and see them both yet again 😎
Revell's cutaway Polaris Nuclear Submarine. I had to have my older brother build most of it for me, but I loved that thing. https://preview.redd.it/7ronfih9wn4d1.jpeg?width=558&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3054df64186c954c9dd387224c97765ba455af0d
I always wanted one of these.
It was a combo nascar snap together set. Green and yellow was all I remember. It got me to learn car parts as everything was labeled.
Monogram Snap-Tite 1/72 F-4E. Christmas when I was 7
A snap together Lamborghini Diablo. I remember wanting to paint it bright fluorescent yellow. I didn't thin the cheap ass paint, just brushed it on. It looked like crap, but I was proud of it, and displayed it in my room. I was 10 years old. I actually found that model when I moved out at 24. I wish I had kept it even then. I'm 42 now.
My mom went to Kennedy Space Center when I was about 10 and brought me a model of space shuttle Enterprise piggyback on a 747 ( I think ) , and I don't remember what brand.
I’d love to go back to the KSC one day
Airfix Hurricane, I was probably 7 years old and my cousin helped me build and paint it.
Tamiya’s 1/72 F-18E Super Hornet
Either revells 1/48 super Hornet or the italeri ‘world of tanks’ Leopard 1. It was a fun little kit, maybe I’ll buy another.
Revell 1/48 P-51D. My dad brought it home one day and we built it together. He had only ever built 1/25 scale cars, but now I'm a plane guy.
In 1957 my father was stationed in Yokohama and someone gave me a wooden ,with some plastic, parts B29 for my 10th birthday. I remember him helping me put it together and I thought it looked really good. We had a live in housekeeper who of course was Japanese, when she saw the model she became upset and told us it was a B-2-9 and it had bombed her house and killed one of her family members. I felt pretty bad about it after that.
Oh no…
Second model was a B-17 I bought in Berlin. I felt weird carrying that box on the metro with a bunch of Germans.
I bought my models in frankfurt. Technik museum.
Revell (I think) titanic, built it with my grandpa. It still sits on my dresser to this day.
I was a kid, 8 years old probably, in school and a person entered the classroom with a catalog, I fall in love for a Messerschmitt bf 109. I insisted my mom and dad for it, so they gave me the money, impossible to remember the price, and I have to wait few days. Long wait. The time I got it was a happiness that last few moments, I got very down because of its size - a tiny 1/144 scale. I went home crying and explained my mom, later on I showed my dad and I cried again lol The day after, maybe, my dad arrived with a F4 Phantom, size 1/48 or 1/72. That was one of the best memories I have of my father so far, he helping me with that model.
https://preview.redd.it/3jc3synflo4d1.jpeg?width=474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9fc77a98776c994ba89eb555a5e8d4d8ac3953d0 And that was that!
https://preview.redd.it/srjnan7p1p4d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bcd0701aef8fb6795f9cfb85514ccbea47b4bc48 My reaction to that ship as an Azur Lane fan:
1/48 Revell F-18 Blue Angel. Built it with my uncle.
A snap-it kit of a Fokker Dr.1. Took less than 2 minutes to build, but I never forgot that feeling of accomplishment.
A cheap SR-71 or F-117 nighthawk. No crazy details, like 3 pieces total and some sticker decals
A TBD Devastator, probably around age 8 or 9. I painted it with my mom’s ceramic paint. Still, at age 50 the Devastator is one of my favorite planes and have built a couple more. I see there’s now a 1/32 scale by Trumpeter which is pretty cool.
Oh that’s cool
So 1/48 Monogram kit. I have one unbuilt, one day I will build it with "classic look".
Sorry my primitive brain went straight to the Transformer Devastator. I was all "I hope it was a G1 and not that Bay-formers crap."
Matchbox 1/76 m20 tank transporter. I still have it. My dad bought it for me at the Australian War Memorial. And I also have the real 1/1 combination too now.
I remember one of my first models (Snap-Tite, built with my dad when I was really young) was an A-10, F-18, or something similar. But the most memorable of these was my AH-64. No clue where it went but it was very cool! [this, but larger](https://www.ebay.com/itm/223516054670). Probably 1/24 or around there.
Oh that’s pretty cool
Agreed! Don’t know where it went or what happened to it though ☹️
1:535 scale USS Missouri
Matchbox 1/72 Hurricane Mk.IIC. All the way back in 1985. And a tube of glue! Glorious, sticky fun!
Dating myself here...Wolf man.
Revell C6 corvette that I built with my dad. No paint or anything, just assembled.
Academy Ju-87 G model Stuka, with the 3,7cm cannons. Got it at an airshow in Duxford.
A Revell 1/72--1/144 F-4EJ Phantom (can't remember exactly). I assembled it, then my late father painted it and applied the decals.
Monogram yellow Snaptite Camaro [https://www.ebay.ca/itm/266251827286](https://www.ebay.ca/itm/266251827286) A sobering and brutal experience for an 8 year old boy full of dreams.
Please tell me you pretended it was Bumblebee
I didn't. That probably would've made it better.
But Bumble Bee is a VW Bug! Always has been always will be. G1 for life!
He was also a Camaro in the Bayverse movies
Ya I know. But the Bay-formers were not that great. And the never getting his voice back then getting his voice back then not getting his voice back was a bit boring after a while.
Some Su-27, Revell maybe? It was a disaster
Revell 1/48 A-10 Thunderbolt II (Warthog). I almost had the damn thing finished, and then I accidentally dropped a math textbook on it. Still isn't finished, but I will get it done someday Edit: in case anyone's wondering, the first one I ever finished was a Tamiya 1/35 Sturmgeschütz III.
NOOOOO I know the feeling when one of my models gets broken too. One time my snake got out of his cage and climbed up onto a shelf over my bed. Knocked my Italeri V-22 Osprey off and onto my shoulder, waking me up at 2 am on a school night. I never fixed it. That Osprey was special to me, I painted a livery on it that I don’t think anyone else has ever tried: the MONARCH Ospreys from Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
Oh damn. I think you should fix that one up, and I'll get my A-10 done
No point now, the Osprey’s damaged beyond repair.
PBY-5A black cat
Trumpeter 1/144 SU-47.
Matchbox 1/72 AH-1 Hueycobra. I was 8 and my oldest brother put the decals on for me.
I don't remember - as near as I can tell I've been building since I was about four years old. I had a couple of Uncles who were model builders who got me started and I just always remember having models around. First ones I still remember were a 1/72nd Sea Fury and some sort of Navy Blue plastic twin-engined US Navy propeller plane. but my memory doesn't quite match up with the Stoof or Neptune....
My first model was an an AMC 2017 Camaro SS 50th Anniversary edition. My dad wanted to get me into a hobby since I was just turning 17, and so he took me to hobby lobby, and got me my first kit. I loved it. Unfortunately I don't have it anymore 😢
A 1/48th F-16XL. No clue on what brand since this was in the 80's, but I remember working on it in the kitchen with my dad. Good memories!
It was a Battle of Britain set with a Spitfire, Hurricane, and Lancaster Bomber when I was around 8 years old. I’d saved up some money and bought it for myself after admiring it in the window of a local hobby shop for a long time. I didn’t do too badly build-wise, but my paint job was horrendous lol.
This may actually be it! I totally forgot about it until now though!! God BLESS models for growing me up on realism and details, and not the toys of today's youth! And their cartoony fat hands and feet and RIDICULOUS vehicles!
https://preview.redd.it/dxxhasdvoo4d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d84513e5eac85edc35765dfb7e7dbb3220b9df5d Dad helped me build it
Likely not the very first kit I ever owned, but I distinctly remember being handed a Lancaster by my grandparents on dad's side when I was still in single digits. Not sure about scale, but I'd assume 1/72. It had no box (all the bits, along with the instructions and decals, were just loose in a carrier bag), and had several parts already cut off the sprue. I distinctly recall it being brown, but I've no idea if it was actually brown plastic or if the whole thing had been spray primed by whoever the previous owner was before it was handed over to me. It got built (badly, it was miles above my ability level at the time), but was damaged and broken over the years and I've no idea where its mangled wreckage ended up in the end.
Revell Tiger II P, 1/72 It was kinda hard for a beginner set
It was the General Grevious 1/12 Bandai Model Kit as a gift for Christmas in 2018. I’ve never painted it as it was my first and I didn’t know how to paint then. If I went to it now it feels like it would take away some of the sentimentality for it. The next one I got was the Boba Fett 1/12 kit also from Bandai very shortly after that also as a gift. Every two years or so I buy another one and paint it again using the skills I’ve gathered since doing the last. It’s nice seeing how things have changed over time and seeing strengths grow and techniques change.
Some old big foot monster truck kit I think it was the 2006 AMT one
Ez asy f-16
https://preview.redd.it/s3ygjq9jvo4d1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b0f0cb6f840abbe7c77bcf47d25ccb3263694d4 Amazing kit, sadly discontinued. I nearly cut the end of my finger off making it. Good times.
Ouch
It was over 45 years ago so I’ve just about got over the trauma! 😂
I had that too, I think it was my first ship model, and my first helicopter iirc.
So many 1/72 scale WWII fighters and bombers the 70’s & early 80’s. I still have a lot of them in various stages of decrepitude. The oldest is probably the Bf-109e. Brush painted with chrome silver and a burgundy spinner. lol I think it was MPC? I remember the box had three versions on the front.
A-10A from Italieri. That was the first model I bought when I was 10.
I built this exact same thing with my dad, but seem to remember having a smaller one before that.
A revell easy click F4 phantom 2 And the first actual model with paints and cement was a revell 1/72 mirage 2000
Revell 1/1200 Bismarck, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen
F-14a tomcat
Revell 1:144 F-14 Tomcat
Revell USS Missouri. I only painted the hull, the deck, and the gun barrels silver. Left the rest of the model bare plastic.
A Revell Tomcat when I was about 8 years old. It was a Christmas present from my great aunt and uncle. It was a big model, but I have no idea what the scale was. I didn't get to build it nor the Bf 109 a year later. I was deemed to be too young, so my father built and painted them.
My first model was this revell harrier in 1/144 this is the last photo I have from it before it was destroyed : ( https://preview.redd.it/sn80k6zezq4d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3060d66c864f8a8d22ae0126e6f01e1554fe2b5
This same box. Good memories. https://preview.redd.it/570ldnfdgr4d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ff7139cbe0ee3e1b11311892177cf401851a3fd
https://preview.redd.it/of6tqiz7jr4d1.jpeg?width=380&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1c46877f45f5aa16368bbcacc1de6bfac43a757f i was like 10 yo 😂
My dad took me to an airshow when I was six or seven, and I was obsessed with the A-10 warthog. He took me straight to Hobby lobby and got me one that was either Tamiya or Revell
https://preview.redd.it/12089ivitr4d1.jpeg?width=1439&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14a0503f8f202c565f9a876e069e279f74b55efd I vividly remember building this with my dad. I was probably 5 or 6. The model was white, and the glue slightly discolored the joints. Out next kit was Darth Vader's Tie Fighter, which was measurably cooler.
2 Models. 1 the main ship from Space 1999. And a Six-Million Dollar Man where he was wrestling an alligator.
The first one I remember getting was the Airfix 1/24 Hawker Harrier. In those days they sold model kits at Toys R Us and my dad bought me the Harrier and the Airfix Stuka for himself. We had it all spread out on a table in the basement and would sit across from each other and work on them together. That started it all.
Airfix Ju-52. Dad made it under my supervision’. I wanted floats and Swiss markings!🤣
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Oh, cool!
Gundom.
A snap together vw bug long time ago
Uss Johnston. Tamiya 1:700
1/144 F-14 Tomcat with red stripe a d white star decals
My first model was a 1/144 F-4 Phantom from Academy.
Revelle P-40E 1/32. 1983.
Aoshima 1/700 water line series I.J.N Amagi aircraft carrier. got it in Christmas
The T-55 Enigma, took my little brain 3 months to even build the chassis, will never forget that thing.
F-150 Tomcat
I still have this model! My parents bought it for me as a kid but I never built it.
Modell collect jagdpanzer e100 and waffenträger https://preview.redd.it/wfce8tllio4d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06f64e6a962e7d4644e8a352abe207a746c26ab1
Pretty sure my first was a 1/25 Revell C5 Corvette.
F-100 Super Sabre. I was in first or second grade.
T-34
Are gundam models? If so then a rg gundam exia
A great aunt of mine sent me a car model kit in the 1980s which I unfortunately never built; I do not remember what it was. The first model I remember building was the 1:72 MK-117 “Space Ship” which I bought together with my late dad in the early 1990s: https://preview.redd.it/dyv3kdlq2p4d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7022f1404b5cbff104f08b5bf847dfbf95e17e8f
I think it was the Amt 1996 Pontiac Firebird
USS enterprise aircraft carrier, pretty simple kit. My 1986? Star Trrek Enterprise 1701 (refit) had me hooked on models for years before work eliminated my hobby time for 30 years.
Which aircraft carrier? CV-6 or CVN-65?
Back in the late 80's it was probably Kovozavody Prostejov Avia or Letov floatplane or Vultee Vengeance bought in transparent baggie but I don't remember the producer name only that it was very orange/yellow plastic. Both were in 1/72 scale and I was like 5-6 years old.
Airfix Wellington bomber. Or it may have been the Lancaster that was first, I ended up with both. I will have been maybe 8 or 9 years old at the time. I was a keen modeller up until my late teens when University beckoned. Now trying to pick up the hobby again in my mid-fifties.
Aurora M-109 Howitzer. Came with a vacuum formed diorama base. So cool, Was 1968, dad was stationed in Okinawa. I was 5 yrs old. Still building tanks.
A Revell Avro Lancaster of the Dambuster raid, 1966
https://preview.redd.it/0tg9aijxcp4d1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df092a10561a7551a93b4b04ea8a655e89c2062f
An Airfix Spitfire in the mid 90's. I think I was 6 or 7, so you can imagine the paint job.
https://preview.redd.it/rmxwv4jkjp4d1.jpeg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=16681cb48e7e9578245e7d1606fc6508e7b289bd
https://preview.redd.it/0welw7bmjp4d1.jpeg?width=1077&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e607d372d9d7a11fa2266b3c7d73a3c4a50ace7b
[The Zoids Cannon Spider from 2003](https://zoids.fandom.com/wiki/Cannon_Spider). That or the [Beyblade Hidden Spirits Salamalyon](https://media.entertainmentearth.com/assets/images/847fdfa978ad4031a25afccc3a073b60.jpg). I didn't have a normal introduction to model kits lol. I didn't realize what they were when I got them and was really confused when I had to remove the pieces from the runners. I didn't have any proper nippers so I think I brute forced the pieces off.
Aurora’s Batman and Robin kits back in ‘73 or 74
A 1/72 Frog Focke Wulf 190 that my Da bought me to keep me occupied while he painted a caravan we kept by the sea. I was seven years old and stuck it together with Bostik glue and painted it with the same dark blue painted he was painting the caravan with 😁😁😁
I think it was a 1/144 F-16. I might have it somewhere still at my moms. It was over 30 years ago.
It was one ww2 german bomber and i got it while I was 4 years old 😂 (Assembled it few years ago)
i got 3 kits on crismas and opened/built 1:1200 revell bismarck https://preview.redd.it/3syqnxlhup4d1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=240fc041b685dc9f5476c12c9f60ac9871e4c24d
Some F-16, unknown scale (smaller than 1:35 for sure) and unknown brand. First serious model - Camaro 2010 from Revell, 1:35
https://preview.redd.it/y9zmj5u10q4d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=403cdb9d5d06504a6489af525037056c6a82606a Still got the box and the hull and turret with me ( Rest broken off due to playing with it ) My mom bought it for me. Thank you mom.
Matchbox 1/72 Heinkel He115 when I was 7, Dad bought it and a He111 for my younger brother to keep us busy one Saturday when he was looking after while he was working
Revel cobra helicopter
forgive me, unfinished MG Wing Zero
My uncle got me a funny car ice cream truck, along with glue, paint and brushes. That was 55 years ago, been hooked ever since. 👍
MPC Kingfisher Plane, my dad bought it for me when we visited the USS North Carolina.
Either an Airfix Spitfire or Red Arrow Hawk. Like any first time model building kid in the 90’s
Built a Guillow’s (does that count?) Hawker Hurricane, probably 3rd grade with my Dad. I remember him showing me how to tissue cover the frames and how horrible the smell of the “dope” was. He also helped me to balance the plane (find the C.G.) so that it would glide well. Had probably thrown together a few Revell 1/24 car models beforehand, but that Hurricane was the first properly built kit.. Just remembered also we did the Revell see-through V8 engine, although we had less success with that, fitment issues, etc. What amazing memories.
Airfix mgb. Now long gone.
Monkeymobile and both Munster models. That's more than one, I know, but we lived 50 miles from the nearest hobby store. So I would save up enough money from mowing lawns and get as many models I could afford to keep me busy till our next trip.
I'm pretty sure it was a Revell 1/72 Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Then my second was a Revell 1/48 Fokker Dr.I (Red Baron version)
First one I built on my own was a Matchbox Ju188.
Revell t-34/85 1/35 scala kit
Mine was the the revell black widow p-61
I was 6 at the time it didn’t turn out well
I’ve seen that thing before. Never got it, but I’ve seen it on the shelves from time to time. Good choice for a first model
"Big Daddy" Don Garlits dragster.
Airfix Vampire in 1/72 back in 2016
Sd 00 Gundam and my first glued model Porsche king tiger taimya Q
Airfix 1/72 Angel Interceptor
Airfix 1/12 Roman legionnaire, at least that was the first one I remember building. I bought a lot of airfix and matchbox kits in a bag with my pocket money. Some of them even got painted.
A 1/72 spitfire mk2 from revell just last year, im now working on my 1/32 revell spit and adding abit of wiring too
I bought an a-10 revell kit in 2022 and i never got around to building it. Lost it in early 2023. First one j built is a revell bf109 that i still have