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

  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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

1/72nd 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...

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.

Hawk Spirit of St. Louis

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

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)

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

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.

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.

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

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.