Your first kit

My first kit my dad built for me was an Aurora 1/32 scale hot rod hot dog vendor truck called "The Wurst" that came with a surfer dude. I know one of the first kits I built was also an Aurora kit of the saber toothed tiger. My first tank model was the MBT70 kit by Aurora as well.

Technically, my first was a Guillows Albatros at about the age of 7 some 60 yrs ago. First plastic kit was a Revell Fokker E-III Eindecker maybe a year later. I finished the Albatros, but it was a struggle with lots of help from Dad. Several more of the Guillows WWI set followed, each requiring progressively less help. Bought the E-III on a whim while at a friends house ($0.80) and decided I liked the challenge of the small scale detail. So now the stash is entirely 1/72 stuff, aircraft and vehicles, which I'll get to when my basement workshop is clear again. But then, I happened on an E-bay seller with the entire set of the Guillows 100 series WWI fighters, all 12. They now reside in my basement as well awaiting the day I gleefully pull the Albatros out...

It amazes me you guys can remember your first kit. Sure wish I could. That would be a very nice memory to have.

I was 3 when I built my first plastic model, with a good bit of help from Dad (although I know I did the actual construction since there were glue fingerprints all over it).  The subject was Monogram's P-40B Flying Tiger.  I probably picked it out because of the box art (and then later discovered that Disney had a role in designing the tiger art the AVG used, and that appeal to a 3-year-old made a lot of sense).  I still remember the photograph of my P-40B sitting on a table next to a P-38 that my Dad did at the same time; his Lightning was so much better.

It was a little Tiger I, bought on a school fieldtrip to COSI.

I'm with Don on the Gee Bee but it could have a Navy weird scale Panther about a foot long and raised areas rather than decals to paint insignia. You're really testing my memory here!

Max

My first kit was a solid wood airplane model, by Strombecker.  Probably a Piper Cub, but I built several various wooden models.  Crude, by today's standards.

Either TWA moon rocket from Disneyland, or Revell Caravelle.

Well, I do remember the first kit I ever finished, 72 years ago.  Relatives were giving me models for Christmas and Birthdays, I guess because Dad used to build some models before I came along.  However, these were stick and tissue (flying) models, and until 2nd grade I was not able to read the instructions well enough to finish a kit.  Then, at age seven, I managed to finish a Guillows Aeronca Champion.

I also remember the first plastic kit, about four years later.  It was a P-80- I believe it was a Hawk model.  The second plastic kit, within a year, was a Hawk Gee Bee racing plane.  That kit is still available as a Testors kit.  This would have been 68 years ago!  Must be one of the oldest kits still available at hobby shops!

Tom Daniels Street Cleaner Z-28 Snap-Tite kit from Monogram.  I was 7 years old - just back from living in the UK for 2 years where I was heavy into Matchbox cars.

Revell USS Pittsburgh. I was 5 and it was the first kit I built without parental supervision.  I finished it in one afternoon on the dining room floor, painting it Testors chrome silver and flat black because that is all I had.

ChrisJH666

I don't know if this has ever cropped up before on here, but for some reason I thought about my first model, so I kind of wondered if anyone else remembered their first? I'll start the ball rolling, with an Airfix 1/72 Jet Provost when I was five!

 

Yes this thread subject has popped up here from time to time. Mine was a Pyro Brontosaurus before somewhere around 4 1/2 to 5. And my dad did the building.