Your first model

[Daryl J.]

1973
Monogram 1/72 B-25 Mitchell w/ 75mm cannon, one decal on upside down in spite of the panel lines showing where the decals went, and brush painted silver.    Tube glue, no solvent for brush to clean afterwards.   

It was payment for mowing mom and dad's lawn and was over 500 builds ago.


Daryl J.

[Hman]

Blimey...

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

[Rafael]

Matchbox F-14 Tomcat 1/72, thirty-four years ago, in my tenth birthday. A gift from my mom. Also bought the B-25J and RN Phanthom M/N from matchbox, too. Happy memories, Thanks for bringing this up

I remember assembling my T-Cat per the instrucctions, with rubber-cement!!! The thing kept coming apart all the time, and then, I had to clean it up and use another type of glue.

Rafa

[philp]

Built my first airplane at age 6 back in 1966 or 67.  No idea what it was but probably a Revell 1/72 single engine fighter as I remember several of those kits from back then.  No longer have it or any of the builds of my youth as moving with the Air Force several times usually left my kits in too many pieces to put back together.

I do remember my bedroom ceiling having several large dogfights going on and scale was not a factor.  Aurora Spitfire, Revell 72nd B-24D and B-17 (Memphis Bell), several Airfix and Frog models also competed for Air Superiority.
That Liberator brings back a memory.  My Dad helped me cut out some red construction paper flames for one of the engines (can't remember if it was a 109, 110 or 190 that was on its tail).  One day while I was at school, my Mom decided my models were gathering too much dust so up on a chair with the vacuum (little round brush on the end of the hose) and she managed to finish off the B-24.  Now, anyone who has built that kit will recall how hard it was to get the wings to sit good in the fuselage recesses.  Mine obviously wasn't that great of a job and the flak took the wing right off.  She was devastated having to tell me what happened when I got home.  If I recall, I didn't even raise a fuss and told her that was alright.  Even back then I liked Forts better 

[K5054NZ]

Oh jeez memory lane time! My first model memory is a large F-4, before I was five. The first I remember clearly is an Academy-Minicraft MD500 which I painted black. Early on there were snaptites-a-gogo (SR71, a B-26 built IN THE CAR on a trip to see dad at work), and dad built for me a Monogram Huey Hog. God I loved that! Real piece of art when dad was done...saw one at my LHS on Sunday and thinking of getting it to do myself . I strongly remember a yellow tail band, and that stonking grenade launcher! There was a Revell 1:32 OH-6 we bought in Australia that he built for me when we got back, that over the years got progressively more broken and repainted - metallic blue fuselage pod, anyone?  Yes, I was a real helo-head back then. I didn't even get my first Spit until about my eighth birthday! (Airfix 1:72 Mk.Vb)

Good times, good times. Thanks Thomas!

[NARSES2]

The origional bright blue Airfix Spitfire in the plastic bag - late 50's ?

Another old favourite was the Airfix Golden Hind - it even floated in the bath (for a bit anyway  )

[Maverick]

Whilst I can't remember the 'first' kit, it would have been early 70s as I got into it fairly early on in the piece.  I still have parts from various kits of that time (guns of a 24th scale Airfix Hurricane, hull of an Tamiya M113) laying around in the spares bin.  Used to do a heck of a lot of Airfix & Matchbox stuff along with the odd Revell.

Mav

[PanzerWulff]

Mid 70's the kit was the monogram or was it revell 1/48 P-51B painted olive drab on top and sky blue on bottom using the little square testors bottle paint. my dad put the decals on for me.long gone but not forgotten .I have another partial kit in the stash but i need to order a revell P-51 D to get the parts I need to finish it I picked it up in a box of models at a yard sale last year,It even has a "Malcom hood" in the box but I think it is an aftermarket item
"Panzer"

[Weaver]

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

Oh Yeah - that's brought back memories: I has a Triceratops - can't remember what make. 

[Shasper]

Eons ago I built a Snap-Tite F-14 (surprised?), but it's since been retired to some landfill. . .

Shas

[Sisko]

Mid seventies Revell Costal Command B-17 1/72 scale.

My dad and I spent one school holidays building it up. All hand painted with humbrol tins.

I had it on display for a couple of weeks. I then insisted on taking it with me to a relatives place when we were going for a visit.

They lived in modern (the 70's) house that had plank stairs with no backing.

As I went running up the stairs I tripped as awkward 7 year olds are want to do. I pushed my model between the stairs breaking it in half along the fuselague and striping it of all the small parts. The scene on the brown slate floor (remember it's the 70's) below was of carnage.

Undetered I went on building kits until I hit 16. It was then very uncool to build models and never picked it up again until I was about 27.

[JoeRugby]

Monogram 1/72 Scale P51B, in about 1976 or so...I was 9.  I no longer have it...but my son does!  I grabbed one for a sentimental build and he had been eye-balling it and asked if he could build it...

Here are the build photos;



When you're seven there is no such thing as a fit problem !!!

[DaFROG]

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

[aerofan]

I can't recall what kit I built first but when you're 7-8 years old, anything was fun to build  . My earliest build recollection was an Entex 1/144 scale F-101A Voodoo purchased thru my hard earned allowance. No pics as it is forever on CAP (Combat Air Patrol) somewhere.

[Archibald]

Revell 1/72 scale F-104G.
London science museum, may 1996. First trip to a foreign country (high-school, I was 14een at the time), first model 
Hmmm I still have some bits of it, including the J-79 exhaust.