Your first model

[B777LR]

So, your first ever model, do you still have it? What was it? Photos!

Ill start:

Revell 1/144 Avro RJ-85



Did it up in Crossair markings originally, because i had flown a Crossair RJ-85 earlier that day. I have since redone it as a Lufthansa plane.

I am currently looking for Crossair or Swissair decals so that i can redo it as a Crossair plane again, see here:
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,20364.msg288016/topicseen.html#new


My dads first model was the Airfix Mirage III.  I think it is 40+ years old:

[grayman]

My first was a Monogram P-39 built with my father. Long since gone (another in the stash, however, waiting for my skills to come up to the point I can do it justice).

First solo was a Revell Macchi Saetta and Curtis P-36 (1/72 in the plastic bag - bought with pocket money on a shopping trip to Warwick, Queensland). Both also still on patrol. Surprising how much these go for on ebay...

[upnorth]

My first model was Monogram's old 1/72 Snap-Tite F-4E Phantom. Long gone and no pics though.

I remember having it out of the box and put together less than ten minutes after coming home from the toy shop with it. Eventually, I decided paint and the decals might be a good idea to put on it.

I flew that thing around the house, dive-bombed the dog and even ditched in the sea (er bathtub) once.

Great memories there. I wish so much that I still had it.

[Aircav]

Airfix P-47 Thunderbolt bought in the NAAFI at Hohne in the early 70's, Hmm, last century, OMG I feel old now 

[Spey_Phantom]

revell 1/72 RAH-66 stealth commanche (early kit)

dont have it anymore though 

[Weaver]

Hard to say what was "my" first, because my dad built a few that were nominally "mine" with me "assisting" to varying degrees. I particularly remember an Airfix galleon (can't recall which one) which the cat decided was a great scratching post, and prompty ripped all the rigging nets to shreds....

I think the first one I built up myself to a finished standard was an Airfix Draken. I also recall a Dambusters Lancaster, which my mum contrived to "dust" and smash wherever I put it, because she didn't think "plastic things" were suitable display items in a house....

All this would be early to mid 1970s.....

[upnorth]

My first build was the Airfix F-86D Sabredog, probably about 1983-ish.

That was like my second or third ever model and definitely one of my favorites in memory, wish I still had it, even more I wish Airfix would reissue it.

[AeroplaneDriver]

My first model was an Airfix Spitfire in the blisterpack packaging.  I built that one by myself around 1977/age 7.  I got a bit ambitious with my next one, an Airfix F-111 that dad had to help with quite a lot.

[tanktastic43]

For my 7th or 8th birthday my aunty bought me the Airfix 1/72nd B29 Super Fortress because she knew i loved military aircraft at such an early age. My dad helped me with the cutting of the parts from the sprue and the more fiddly gluing bits. Even now i'm amazed at how much detail there was, the bomb bays and gun turrets especially stay in my memory. I think it took us a few days to build and then we went to a shop that sold models to get some paint,and for some reason i remember that i wanted to paint it lime green!

Getting to the punch line soon, stick with me for a little longer.

Having painted it the gloss lime green and let it dry for a day or so it went on display in my bedroom.

A short while later my aunt and her family came to visit and expressed an interest in seeing her gift. So i proudly gave it to her and she made all the correct noises that someone does when they know something is just not quite right but can't put a finger on it.

She put the model down next to her on the sofa. Seconds later her son came running into the room and vaulted onto the sofa next to her and landed on the model snapping off its wings. 

30+ years later that story still gets dragged up now and again at family gatherings.

[retro_seventies]

An airfix spit.....oooooh probably in 82 or 83?  I remember that brittle light blue plastic!  I got a 109 at the same time, but the spit was built first.  Got them from my grandpa on my first trip to Cosford.    Back then i actually used to finish them.....

[B777LR]

By the way B777, is that model of your father's a Matchbox Mirage III? Strangely enough that was my second build.



Duncan

Its the Airfix kit...

I didnt think they (my dad and uncle) built anything but Airfix, and the ocasional Revell kit, but recently i bought an old Frog F-100, and i noticed that the parts are identical.

[kitnut617]

I can remember the first kit I had which was back in the early 60's and definitely long gone, I ---err---helped with the build.  At the time I had no idea what it was but now know it was a B-58 Hustler.  I don't know who the manufacturer was but it wasn't very big so maybe it was one of those 1/280th or something that I've seen in my PAK-20 book, I couldn't really say.  Oddly I can't remember what my second kit was or any others in particular order, it was more than likely an Airfix kit as Woolworths always had then on display, if I go through an early Airfix catalogue I can say 'done it' to most of them though.

Robert

[Weaver]

For my 7th or 8th birthday my aunty bought me the Airfix 1/72nd B29 Super Fortress because she knew i loved military aircraft at such an early age. My dad helped me with the cutting of the parts from the sprue and the more fiddly gluing bits. Even now i'm amazed at how much detail there was, the bomb bays and gun turrets especially stay in my memory.

That stirs a memory of being equally impressed with the B-26 Marauder. I remember it being quite nicely painted, which probably means dad did it as one of the "joint efforts"!

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Easy:-

For my 7th Birthday - FROG DH88 comet racer, followed very quickly by an Airfix Typhoon (plastic bag edition), then an Airfix Caravelle, then their MiG 21F and I still have the decal sheet for the MiG thirty-eight years later..... although it is looking a wee bit yellow now !

Ian

[proditor]

Third birthday: Revell Triceratops.  Followed by a slew of other styrene dinosaurs in short order.