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Scanning ancient pix of what I like to consider some of my more decent earlier works for posting led me to an interesting idea: how about posting some pix of our earliest works, no matter how bad we might think they may be? Actually, that would kind of be the point: to see how far we've come since those early days.
Having said that, I've seen some first efforts posted here that put my latest efforts to shame!
I suppose what I'm thinking of is our childhood efforts, for those of us (most of us, I'd reckon!) who began building models as wee youngsters (but definitely not limited to that!).
To get it going and give ya'll an idea of what I'm talking about, here's a pic of a 1/48 Bandai Tiger II that I built when I was about 8 years old, then repainted (well, actually painted for the first time!) and modified with "battle damage" when I was around 10 years old. As far as I can remember, this is the first piece of armor I ever built by myself. No idea where the decals came from. Might be from the Bandai kit, or maybe from some of the Aurora armor kits Pop had built for me years earlier. Their yellowing attests to the age of the model.
Here's the slightly fuzzy pic:
As you can see, I loved gray at a very early age. If it was German, I painted it gray. I even have a 1/35 Tamiya Henschel Tiger II I built as a teen painted German Gray! Influenced by the film
The Battle of the Bulge? Who knows!
Maybe it was because it came molded in gray plastic.
This pic was taken about a year ago while I was home visiting the folks back in the States. Went over to the storage facility to check on the collection. All was intact!
Sooo...if anybody else has pix of their first models or anything from their early days and thinks this would be a fun and interesting topic, post 'em here and tell us your story!
If it catches on, maybe we could even ask for a sticky!