The oldest built kit in your collection...

 Oh heck Frank you know I have a bunch that are sadly still in the boxes. Mostly stuff from the 1970's that look like they were built by a 12 year old looking to have some fun. A couple like the Monogram B-25 still have a lot of sentimental meaning to me. Heck I found a Revell Arizona that still had fireworks hidden from mom in the hull for over 30 years.

I've still have a Monogram 1/32 Pzkfw IV from, what, 1970?. Maybe earlier, whenever it first came out. Painted it by brush in Pactra yellow? and green patchy camo.  It the oldest more or less intact one I have.  Everything else I built before 1973 has been given away or destroyed in one manner or another, firecraker, BB-Pellet guns etc.  This includes, gasp, the Aurora 2001 Moon Bus, ( given away)! I had dozens of kits from the early sixties, cars, ships, planes and any Renwall tank that was available, and that was pretty much all of them.  ( I've been building since the late 50's.  One thing I've seen is the constant upward advance of models. Just keeps getting better!

I originally built stuff from around 1983-1993 while i was still in diffrent apts.I don't have anything from that long ago.i then stopped for about six years and then started up in 1999 when I was able to set up a work area in my first home.I have everything i have built in the past nine years,but the oldest I think might be my:

1/48 Hasegawa P-51 Mustang  1/48 Hasegawa Me-109 Trop and 1/48 Hasegawa F-4B

 

I think they look pretty good built OOB  sorry no pics in the camera right now.

The oldest kit I have, and still not completed is this old Airfix Apollo Lunar Module. I got it when I was 10 or 11 (now I am 44 ) Never did finish it at the time as someone gave me a Centuri Model Rocket catalog and it got shelved to build "Flying Rockets" . I look at it every now and then, thinking I might finish it up.

I'd love topost some of my "oldies", but my pre-1994 kit collection is all lodged at my parent's house in Pennsylvania, 2.5 hours away!

I have some old Nichimo Panthers, and especially, some old American tanks I built back then. An old Monogram Patton, and an M88 Cargo Tractor (?) by NITTO, I think?

Got some of the older Tamiya's too, like the Sgt York and the Stuart...ahhh--memories!

Very cool story Rob, thanks for sharing!  Do you have any photos of this one?

My oldest built kit I have is an Aurora MBT70 tank in 1/48 scale. It was the first tank model I built myself and had been played with when I was a kid. If I was to guess, I think it would have been built between 1970-75. It was a favorite tank and it survived multiple vacuumings by my mom over the years. It was badly built, unpainted and many parts were broken and missing from the turret.

Around 1996, I discovered eBay and found a partially built kit for $5. I picked up the kit and the next time I made a trek home, I retrieved the old kit. I used the two kits to rebuilt my old kit. I painted it up and decaled it with old Tamiya M113 decals.

The base kit has been built for over 30 years.

Dave-

LOL, I do stay up pretty late!  Looking forward to seeing your photos!  

Another interesting thread Frank, how late do you stay up at night to come up with these???  I honestly don't know what the oldest kit inn my collection is.  I have a few aircraft that I honestly cannot remember when they were built.  Some of the earliest I suspect were built between 81-83 but I too have been building since a young age.  Most of the early endeavors were lost in combat and died horrible deaths .  Anyway, I'll try to figure out which ones are likely to be the oldest and post some pics.