Airfix Starter Kits - which One ?

[MilitaryAircraft101]

mmm, maybe the F-5, they're really quite simple to build. 

[lancer]

Just finished helping my 6 1/2 y/o nephew with his first real kit. The Revell 144th Concorde.  And, apart from the transfers, he pretty much built the whole thing himself. he even painted it - by rattle can of course. He wanta sodding blackbird as his next one, oh and membership to the airfix modelers club for crimbo!!!!  The only drawback.. It's my tools and stuff he uses

[ChrisF]

Everyone needs to do a spitfire ! Its a right of passage !

And you can tell him war stories as ya go ! Teach him a hero is not in fact a footballer :p

[Rheged]

Everyone needs to do a spitfire ! Its a right of passage !

And you can tell him war stories as ya go ! Teach him a hero is not in fact a footballer :p

Players with the oval ball are more heroic !  But the really massive heroes are the  Bomber Command crews (nothing against other light blues) who flew over Germany  for wages of next to nothing a day. Or the Coastal Command crews who flew hour after hour of boredom, protecting convoys  "just in case"

[rickshaw]

I'd suggest the real heroes are those that went, even if they didn't want to, or were terrified and still did their job and did it to the best of their abilities and didn't make it back home.  Doesn't matter what the colour of the cloth they wore, where they served and in what capacity.  We all owe quite a debt to them and we should not, I suggest, ever bloody well forget it.  Some may have served in more difficult circumstances than other but who can look the families of the fallen in the face and say, "Sorry, mate he wasn't really a hero..."?

[Rheged]

I'd suggest the real heroes are those that went, even if they didn't want to, or were terrified and still did their job and did it to the best of their abilities and didn't make it back home.  Doesn't matter what the colour of the cloth they wore, where they served and in what capacity.  We all owe quite a debt to them and we should not, I suggest, ever bloody well forget it.  Some may have served in more difficult circumstances than other but who can look the families of the fallen in the face and say, "Sorry, mate he wasn't really a hero..."?

You have expressed this much better than I did.  Thanks!

[NARSES2]

Right before this subject gets sidetracked completely, which this site has a marvellous ablity to do   I think it will have to be the Spitfire because, as someone rightly says, it is a right of passage plus the Gnat so he can take it home with him after Christmas as his first build alone kit.

Cheers again lads  

[MilitaryAircraft101]

Welcome mate  Hope he enjoys.. Still remember the Tigger as my first 

[kitbasher]

Spitfire, Chris.  It's the law. 
Second choice the Tomahawk - can never go wrong with a sharkmouth when you're a kid.  I remember having an Airfix Kiityhawk as a youngster and thinking it looked so exciting with those teeth!

[RussC]

My first was a box set of 4 shrinkwrapped together, Spit, P-51, 109 and a Zero. Each was molded in silver color styrene.
 
Good tymes.

Go for the Spitfire.

[dragon]

Kids always go for the "Coolness" factor.
Give the kid a limited choice of "cool" kits to choose from.
My personal choice, given being in a position to get a kid started in model building, would be the 1/72 Angel Interceptor.  It has few parts and still looks pretty cool.  There is no way to make it look "bad" or "wrong"  since it is a "Science Fiction" kit. 

[PR19_Kit]

There is no way to make it look "bad" or "wrong"  since it is a "Science Fiction" kit. 

That still wouldn't stop any 'kid JMNs' from commenting on its 'accuracy' though.......... 

[Dork the kit slayer]

mmm, maybe the F-5, they're really quite simple to build.  

Per leeeese..not the Airfix F-5. Im now retired and still deeply traumatized by that one.

Sorry to stray from the thread Chris.

[Geoff]

I'd suggest the real heroes are those that went, even if they didn't want to, or were terrified and still did their job and did it to the best of their abilities and didn't make it back home.  Doesn't matter what the colour of the cloth they wore, where they served and in what capacity.  We all owe quite a debt to them and we should not, I suggest, ever bloody well forget it.  Some may have served in more difficult circumstances than other but who can look the families of the fallen in the face and say, "Sorry, mate he wasn't really a hero..."?

Well said!

[ChrisF]

Sorry for starting the veer off the topic it was all my fault...

But anyway point was... Spitfire, So you can tell war stories