Your first model

[anthonyp]

I don't remember the first one I actually built, but I have to say it was probably an MPC A-4 (with the ground crew).  My grandpa and dad were building for me waaaay back then (we're talking 1980, when I was five).  I got chicken pox and couldn't do anything but sit at home all day.  I had the old Testor's modeling mat (ie, plastic that didn't melt when glue touched it), Testor's enamels from my dad, and some K-Mart model glue (Testor's by any other name).  I think I built an A-4 as my first one during that week.

I had a lot of models built by grandpa and Dad that were a lot better than anything I did.  I've still got a few, in various stages of disrepair.  I have this ancient B-52D that I tried to refit in the 90's, but it's best left as is now.  The plastic warped over the decades, and now, short of ripping the thing apart and performing major reconstruction, it's best left as is, waiting to one day be hung from the ceiling again (eternal warrior that it is).

First one from my latest return to modeling was posted here back in 2005 (I think it was the F-4J(Ar) for the Latin America build).

[Hman]

Dang this has got my grey matter straining.
I think i "helped" my dad make a masarati or some such open wheel '20's type racer

Blimey...
A Matchbox biplane, (A Boeing Fighter I think), I didn't paint and left it in the sprue colours Mustard & Dark Brown!

That sounds familiar it was a P12E I think. Did it have a extra strap on fuel tank between the main gear legs.
I think that might have been my first as well.

I did have a large number of the matchbox multicolour kits.

I also built the monogram 1/48 B29 before i was 10 then teid one wing tip to a piece of clothesline and swung it round my head like a control line plane and watched those of the propellers than i hade no dissolved into gluey obscurity spin

I think it did!

[CanisD]

ME-163 Komet, sometime back around 1976. Think it was 1/72nd. Didn't paint it, and it was more glue than plastic. Probably still have it somewhere in a box out in the garage. First model I can remember painting was Darth Vader's TIE fighter sometime in 78 or early 79. It was almost the last one I painted after I spilled an entire bottle of Testor's Flat Black on the dining room table. Thankfully the table cloth took the hit and not the table itself or I'd have been buried in a ditch somewhere outside Toronto!