Can you remember your very first kit

[christopher]

If my memory serves me correctely it was "The Golden Hind" By Airfix ,when they used to come in a plastic bags.Im not sure what scale but it was the little one.
It would have been about 1960.Funny How things stick in your head .

[spud]

i know mine was a Tiger tank that had some interior to it, that was well over 30 years ago, i remember waking up on my birthday and my brother had it for me at teh end of my bed, of course he built it while i watched ;/

[wbill76]

Yes, I remember my very first model...it was a 1/700 USS Arizona kit that was for sale at Woolworth's (when they still existed!) for something like $1.50 or $2 maybe, can't remember. Anyhow, on a monthly allowance of $5 in 1984 that was a major purchase but still left room to get a tube of glue and a couple of small bottles of Testors enamel paint, so it was perfect! I built quite a lot as a kid, mostly aircraft, then hung it up when I went to college and only came back to it later on as an adult.

[Deleted]

Long ago in a galaxy far away....
Mine was a 1/72 Airfix Me163.... It was 197? and I got my Dad to help me with the camo. I thought it looked
Cheers
Steve

[bullardino]

I can't remember it, but the first kit I remember was a 1/72nd Bulldog from Airfix.

[multicam]

I'm thinking 55' Chevy (bel-air) black plastic with flame decals? Revel? When iwas about 10. 25 years ago(WTH?) Of course I didn't paint it Cuz that was too much work and money.

[Deleted]

1/72 Airfix Spitfire,in the old plastic bag,circa 1970....'Borrowed' from a shop in Holland village,Singapore........

[Mence]

Ooo, mine was a Airfix 1/72 Cessna 0-2 Skymaster.

We should really do a GB where we all build our first kit again!

[paulh.]

A blue plastic Airfix1/72 Spitfire -in a bag

[paulh.]

Mar 19, 2012 14:13:57 GMT -5 Mence said:

Ooo, mine was a Airfix 1/72 Cessna 0-2 Skymaster.

We should really do a GB where we all build our first kit again![/quote
Great idea Prof- I'm in

[Deleted]

Airfix 1/72 Spitfire and Stuka in plastic bags from Woolworths, either late 1950's or very early 1960's. The first issue had the pilot figure moulded onto the fuselage halves so when it was assembled he had a big seam round the head.

Then onto AMT cars, a very expensive modelling option for a 13 year old in 1960's UK as we were all poor. I think one kit was about three weeks pocket money.

Very limited choice, high cost, no money and plasticard soon made a scratch builder out of me. Oh yes, the only cement was in a tube and filler was Plastic Wood from the DIY shop - stunk like crazy and took forever to dry, then it usually fell off when you tried to sand it!

Bruce

[tonylee-Rest In Peace]

NO ;D

I can't even remember what I had for supper 55 years ago

Tony

[wouter]

you can't?

man that Alzheimer is goin' fast ;D ;D ;D

my first kit was a Saab Viggen if I'm not mistaken...was only 11 or 12 and it didn't look that great when I worked with it, wasn't painted either

My first 'real' kit was the DML Tiger II which I just finished

Cheers

[itsonlyakit]

My first kit was an ocean liner that my grandmother sent me. She also included in the box, tube glue and those little glass testors paints. This was Christmas 1958 and Canada Post shattered many parts inside the box in transit. One of my uncles rescued the mess by repairing the the kit parts so I could build the worst glue bomb ever. My favorite part of the the build was pasting all the little paper flags that went from stem to stern on a piece of black thread. You had to ask...............

[dupes]

Oh, absolutely. Knight Rider in the early 80's...built it with my dad.

www.amazon.com/Knight-Rider-2000-Model-1983/dp/B004O36O18

[wouter]

mmm....Alzheimer? ;D

Cheers

[tonylee-Rest In Peace]

I don't remember seeing a guy named Al Zheimer listed on the intro board.

He must be a bashful bloak you reccon?
Tony ;D

[wouter]

LOL...yeah he is ;D ;D ;D

Think he is a Taliban refugee from Pakistan who likes to build T-62's on this forum

He went under the radar though ;D

Cheers

[tonylee-Rest In Peace]