Can you remember when your first builds were?

[gomergizmo]

Was looking through my old photo album that my mom gave me about 20 years ago. The picture is me at Christmas 1967. Ten years old at the time. The kit was a B-58 Hustler. Would like to find the kit now. I wonder when that kit first came out?



Think it was this kit, maybe?



Oh the memories.

[Stuart]

Airfix 1:72 Hawker Typhoon - was supposed to wait for my dad to come home to build it, but didn't as i was too excited, built it in a afternoon, got told off...(just as well as he couldn't build models for toffee)

I love that kit, I'd happliy do one now.

[JohnRatzenberger]

Far too lengthy (as usual) to repeat here, but here is my story of tracking down "my first kit"
http://www.uamf.org.uk/viewtopic.php?p=31216#p31216;

[Chris]

That is an Aurora B 58 Hustler under the tree Dan.

I can tell you my first three:

First was an MPC (airfix) Spad that came with a bunch of picklehube Germans and a vacuform base called 'Ballon buster'.

The second was a Lindberg 1/72 TBF Avenger

The third was Lindberg SB2C Helldiver

[gomergizmo]

That is an Aurora B 58 Hustler under the tree Dan.

Yeah. Did a search for the kit , the one under the picture. Only found one. $155.00. Yikes.

[jssel]

Now let's see. It was either an Airfix Ju87 Stuka or the Airfix Me110. They were around the same time in the mid sixties. Followed by the Airfix Do-217. My uncle was into modeling in a big way and always got me the latest. Here in the States, Airfix was quite the catch. Revell came out with the "Warbirds" series (1/72 Constant Scale) around that time and my first one there was the Hurricane SD*N. I just tracked that one down again but will not brush paint it in gloss red this time.

My uncle would be very surprised to see what has happened to the hobby since his time. He always kept me stocked with Arifix and FROG kits. Very happy times indeed.

[rob_van_riel]

Memory is a bit foggy, but I'd say either 73 or 74, some dinosaur (mother says Airfix, comparison of known kits to memory says Tamiya).

[aeroplanegripper]

Mine was around 68-69 when me and my dad and I (very carefully) built one of the Airfix figures, and Im sure it was the Coldstream or Grenadier Guardsman.

[carlos]

December 26th, 1970 - Age 7 - Airfix Hampden.
(memory not 100%, it might have been 1971, age 8)
Got it for Christmas, and my dad had promised to build it with me on 'Boxing Day' - However, being only 7/8, and having no patience whatsoever, I had been looking through the plans, and fiddling with the plastic the previous night..... was up early that morning.... and started it on my own.
The tail wouldn't stay put, and at that age I thought that 'more glue' = 'more sticky' - so I ended up with the rear end of the fuselage melted into a gooey blob.
I remember my dad rescued it by poking a bit of sprue into the end of the fuselage, then rebuilding the shape with some sort of putty.
It never got painted, so it's possible I had the only all-black Hampden, with a broad white band at the rear of the fuselage

[general rocket]

The oldest I can remember, Frog P47 Thunderbolt, approx 1970ish.

[Saxon]

I was about 10 (1983) and it was a bagged Revell Corsair 1/72, I didn't see or hear about Airfix until much later on, my local toy stores stocked Hasgawa, Revell, Matchbox and Esci so that is what I mostly built as a kid/early teen.

[AndrewR]

Old tool Airfix Mig-15. No paint, finished with Polish insignia I think.

Cheers

Andrew

[uavdb]

I dont remember the first "me" built, but I remember my first kits. I was at a grocery store with my mom when I was 5 (circa 1962) when I saw one of those racks/stands up near the checkout area. There were these model kits in small boxes with clear windows in the boxes and two kits inside. I didnt really know what was involved, but they were airplanes because there were pictures on the box and that was good enough for me. They were Lindberg kits...one was a Knight Twister and the other one is foggy...I want to say it was another tiny biplane but I really dont remember.
Mom did her best to stick them together (no paint, sloppy glue which I think was "muselage") and I thought they were absolutely beautiful. That was it for me, I was smitten.

[bilby1968]

Was looking through my old photo album that my mom gave me about 20 years ago. The picture is me at Christmas 1967. Ten years old at the time. The kit was a B-58 Hustler. Would like to find the kit now. I wonder when that kit first came out?



Think it was this kit, maybe?



Oh the memories.

What a perfect Christmas!!!

A model aircraft, a fishing rod & a football to throw around. No wonder you were smiling!!

RFeckon one of my first builds was from the Matchbox range , possibly their F14 but I can remember a Monogram B58 somewhere around the same time

[PaulBradley]

Airfix Bf109G - the old one - circa 1970.