Tamiya R-34 Nismo

Wardukw · September 17, 2022, 12:29:00 AM

I am pretty sure my first build was a disaster feom the get go ..i do remember my second build was a Alpha Jet and i used plastic glue and put so much glue on it the landing melted.
As for style i didnt have anyone until yrs after i started building armour and that gent was Shepard Paine..i got his book and thats when things changed and for the first time i tryed super detailing and that was that.
Strange thing i never really ever super detailed a plane but cars..trucks and armour ..yeah like there was no tomorrow and havent looked back but that didn't mean learning has stopped..i watched a Night Shift vid on YouTube and off i went again with painting and always there is Mig Jimenez ..is just goes on and on.
When it comes to cars ive never had a mentor so to speak..just built the models and then modifying them as i got better and working on the real things for yrs and building my own making a detailed model is easy as i have a pretty good idea what goes where

PR19_Kit · September 17, 2022, 04:12:05 AM

My first plastic kit, after building many Veron 'solids', was a Lindberg B-17 in the ever popular 1/64 scale, complete with full interior, when I was 11 yrs old. (That was in 1953.......)

I can distinctly remember sitting on the bus heading back to RAF Abingdon with this HUGE box nestled across my lap.

Even then I liked them to have long wings obviously.

Madhatter · September 17, 2022, 04:37:49 AM

1/64?? I had no idea that was even a commercial model scale. Learn something new everyday

zenrat · September 17, 2022, 05:07:11 AM

My Dad built me an EE Lightning, Freedom Fighter, and Fairey Battle (all Airfix, all brush painted - silver enamel finish on the Lightning was superb. I can't replicate it) when I was about Five. I suspect he gave me/i pinched his paints and Stanley Knife when I started building my own. I can't however remember what my first build was except it would have been an Airfix aircraft.

Biggest influence on my building was Rob Burns. From him I learnt the importance of always having fun, never taking it seriously, and always taking the opportunity to wind up the rivet counters. He was a talented builder of cars and vans but never let reality get in the way. I never really discussed whiffing with him but he would have appreciated it even if he considered anything other than automotive modelling as slightly improper.
He died of liver cancer aged 42 in 2016 and I think of him every time I start to take myself too seriously.
Miss you Rob.

NARSES2 · September 17, 2022, 05:50:14 AM

My first kit would have been that famous Airfix Spitfire. Bought from Woolworths with pocket money on the Saturday morning and flying operations by the Saturday afternoon

Flyer · September 17, 2022, 06:23:39 AM

No idea what brand the kit's were but my very first I built myself was a Brewster Buffalo, followed by a razorback P-47, then a bubble top P-47 and then a F-4U Corsair. I was 11, they were all for my birthday, the Buffalo was from my mum on the day, the other three were late gifts from other relatives. All four were heavily glued, no wheels, no paint and fogged canopy's. Then for Christmas I received a Airfix (I think) 1/72 Horsa troop glider and Lancaster bomber, those one of my uncle's offered to build for me, they did get painted and put on their wheels, and to this at the time 11yo looked fantastic, but with regular play were soon broken up, the Buffalo, Jugs and Corsair outlived them by many years.

Madhatter · September 17, 2022, 06:51:57 AM

Wow, that just dredged up an old memory! I recall having a Brewster as well. Academy I think. Or something like that. Depends on what decade your build was. Mine was the 80s

Wardukw · September 17, 2022, 03:34:47 PM

1978 was my first yr of model building..8yrs old and a week after the F86 came my first 2 British aircraft..both Airfix..a Mk1 Spitfire and a Lancaster bomber..the amount of aircraft after that went nuts..weird thing i have no idea what followed ..the fourth plane isnt there ..like it never existed .
I think i was 10 or 11 when i started my first big plane..a Monogram B24 ..it was brush painted ..everything was there ..no interior painting ..that didnt happen for yrs.
I do know a B26 Maruader was next and i put electric engines in it so the props would spin..they weren't models to me then..they were toys i had to build..great fun

Armour came around when i was 15..the very first..a 32nd scale Monogram Panzer IV Flakvierling and it went more nuts than planes..even more fun

Flyer · September 17, 2022, 05:35:59 PM

Quote from: Madhatter on September 17, 2022, 06:51:57 AMWow, that just dredged up an old memory! I recall having a Brewster as well. Academy I think. Or something like that. Depends on what decade your build was. Mine was the 80s

Mine was a bagged kit, possibly by Revell, built it in 91. I remember that the Buffalo on the artwork had Felix the cat running holding a bomb on it's side.

Madhatter · September 17, 2022, 09:24:51 PM

Yeah thats the one

zenrat · September 18, 2022, 05:15:30 AM

Flyer · September 18, 2022, 05:57:59 AM

That's the one Fred!

Gondor · September 21, 2022, 01:22:58 AM

My first kit was Revell, the one with the globe base late 60's early 70's. Either the Spitfire Mk II, Hurricane or Zero. Probably the Zero being the first as I remember using Gloss Brown paint on the Spitfire as that was the only available brown model paint in the village garage, the only source of modelling items at the time. Got third with the build at the village show that year with the spitfire, think there were only four entries too. I still have the Hurricane, repainted and with decals from the old Airfix Mk V spitfire suitably adapted.

Gondor