First Kit? Anyone Remember... Could be a long time back for some ;)

Heh heh....yup, it was a long time ago, but with the effect this hobby's had on my life I don't see how I couldn't remember. It was a Lindberg SR-71 in 1/184 scale. The box info is wrong; it's actually a YF-12A, but to a seven-year old it's just a cool looking plane. 

that would be my very first

I watched the series when it first aired on cartoon network.  I was in middle school if I recall correctly.  The action figures for the series were upwards of 15$ which was a LOT of money for me and these were like 4.99$ at toys r us and they had a massive selection, like giant piles of them.  I grabbed this one, my favorite design.  After I built it I loved it and got ALL OF THEM in that series as well as a bunch from other gundam series.  After a while I stopped building, I never painted them or anything.  A few years later after my ex left me I was looking for something to do with my free time and came across a store selling only gundam kits online and I noticed they were gorgeous compared to the old kits I had.  I bought a few and built them and it evolved from there

I can't recall with total conviction, but I think it was a helicopter or an Aurora tank like the IS-3. So many moons ago.

I vaguely remember building my first models together with my granddad, a 1/144 b-17, DC-9 and F-15.

The first model I have ever build was a 1/144 F-14, glue all over and no paint. I have build like that untill age 15, then I started painting.

1/72 P-40 Sharkmouth. Dont know the maker but it came in a plastic bag with cardboard top/seal(Mid '80s). Assembled twice, first time with sticky tape, second time (with a few less pieces) with glue. Neither time with paint.

First model I completed with paint and decals? 1/72 matchbox SB2C Helldiver

Andrew

8 yrs. old, 1968.  Monogram 1/72 B-29 painted up like Bock's Car with a plutonium Fat Man made from a ping pong ball sticking out of the bomb bay.  Painted with rattlecan silver bike paint.

                                                                                            Pat.

(My Dad helped a little)

Wow, about 40yrs ago and not sure but it could have been a P-40.

Hawk Spirit of St. Louis

It was a Revell B-52 (scale unknown).  It was given to me as a reward for getting my polio shot.  This was in the mid-1950's and I was one of the first kids in my neighborhood to get the new Salk vaccine.

1/72nd scale P-51 & Me-109.  I was 8, and my older cousin took them on a visit and claimed they were his.  I must hunt him down one of these days...

mine was an F-86, i am sure it was 72nd and think it was an Airfix kit. My dads next door neighbour got it and helped me build it. I know it was painted black for some reason.

That would have been 81 or 82, been hooked ever since.

1/72 P-51. Snap-Tite. Not sure if it was Revell, Monogram or maybe even Testors. I was around 8.

my first kit was actually a set of them: a Thunderbirds heritage flight with an F-16, F-4 and an F-100, all in 1/72 scale. Dunno the maker, but I built them my freshman year in High School (age 14/15 I think). We hung them in formation from the ceiling of the AFJROTC room.

Mine was a SNAP-tite F-4 as a Christmas gift exchange in Middle School, a moon or two ago

Too long ago,it could have been the original Aurora monster kit,Godzilla.I also did Frankenstein,Wolfman,King Kong,and Mummy.I just built them and played with them until they broke.

When I started as an adult in 1982,it was Tamiya King Tiger,T-34,and Panzer IV,those were fun kits.

My first kit was a plastic model of a glider... My uncle gave it to me and helped me build it. Don't know exactly which glider that was (some Polish type), but my family still curses that day 25 years later . It sure changed my life!

Paweł

  It was a Sunderland, no paint, and I played with it until I blew it up with firecrackers.  I still love the look of that  plane.

It was 1965, and think it was a Revell or Monogram DC-3 in Eastern or TWA markings, can't remember. My second one was the Aurora U505 that my brother bought for me at the corner drug store for a couple of bucks. I do remember leaving out the interior of the DC-3 rushing it to finish the outside to put on the decals!

I do remember the first kit I completed.  Relatives had given me kits that I couldn't build 'cause I was too young to read the instructions.  When I was about seven or eight I could read well enough that I completed a Guillows Aeronca.  This was a balsa stick and tissue model.  Plastic wasn't around yet.  There were non-flying scale models- they were called "solid" models.  And, during the war when balsa was a strategic material (used in life rafts) there were the cardboard solid scale models.  The fuselage was laminated from layers of about 3/16 thick cardboard cut to profile.  You varnished the stacked assembly and began to sand off the ridges.  When it got fuzzy you varnished it again and repeated.  Wings and empenage were pine.

It was the Lindberg USS Ruderow  DE.  Scale unknown . I was probably 6 years old.  Did it myself.  This was something like 1957.  I didn't know about putting decals in water,  so I glued the hull number on. 

Doug

That 'un right thar... I remember it like it was yesterday..

1967, at eight years old...   had a choice between the Spitfire and another Hawk kit, a 1/72 Corsair...  Didn't pick the Corsair cuz the wings "looked funny"...  After I built it, I was hooked.. At .39 cents each, I could get all the 1/72 scale Hawk kits I wanted with my weekly allowance of .50 cents... Hade to save to get to the 1/48th scale stuff.. They cost .99 cents (plus tax), so it took me three weeks to get one..

The kits were either at the drug store (along with Testor's and Practa 'Namel paints @ .19 cents ea.) or the grocery store on a rack that spun around...

I got the above kit o Ebay.. When I saw it, I had to have it, lol.. Got it for 3 bucks and shipping, or something like that... Got the Corsair too, lol..

Ain't gonna build either one though... They're just for lookin' at...

Hans von Hammer

That 'un right thar... I remember it like it was yesterday..

1967, at eight years old...   had a choice between the Spitfire and another Hawk kit, a 1/72 Corsair...  Didn't pick the Corsair cuz the wings "looked funny"...

I had that Hawk Wildcat, Spitfire and Messerschmitt.

Very simple kits with 1960s era high detail  ( rivets ) and solid wings - liked the Wildcat and  purdy Spitfire lots more than the 109.for some reason

i'm not sure but probably a mig-25 in 1/144 scale that come with a military files encyclopedia about 1987-88 (the brand was not specified by the editor), i just glued it with a strange gummy glue and not painted it.

before of it i had two snap kit from the died Atlantic italian brand, a b-17 full of rivets (probably 1/100 or less) and a hornet carrier probably 1/700. Very child at the time (about 9 yo) and the two kits was destroyed actually are really rare kits

Close to 50 years ago....    I built a lot of cars first starting out. Danged if I can remember the very first one though.    I am sure it was some sort of sports car.......

Does Boy Scout pinewood derby count?

It was something I would have built with Dad. Possible subjects would be the TWA rocket from Tomorrowland which we picked up there, when I was about 5. Or the Aurora Viking Ship.

Well, I remember my first kit in that I helped my older brother build it. He was a Cousteau fanatic and of course, it was the Calypso. I was allowed to hold it on occasion during the construction process. I was 9 years of age.

Da Vinci's Catapult....although I never really built it....I assembled it....

Im pretty sure it was a Fokker DVII...not sure by who but it was around 1974....my dad and I built it ...

this was my first kit, 1:72 hobby-boss P-40M warhawk. i made this when i was 10.

im not sure why the bottom of the plane is green, and why there is no landing gear.

the paint is cracked in some spots underneath

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