What was the first model you ever made

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What was the first model you ever made ?????

mine was an Airfix f3 lightning glued very badly with Bostick believe it or not it was a complete shambles lmao

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Airfix Lancaster (dambuster). Same as Nige, glued with bostic. didnt bother painting it. If i remember correctly i must have been about 8 or nine yrs old. It ended up being blown to bits on bonfire night.

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to be honest i cant actually remembe, i must have been about 5!

annoying thing is i can remember the ones my brother used to make!!!

first one i remember making was a Messchersmitt M - 262

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first one u made was a airfix spitfire or hawker hurricane i think it was a hurricane though

glued with humbrol poly in the yellow tube

painted it then my :censored2 of a sister lobbed a pile of magazines ontop of it and crushed it

for a first it wasnt bad only bad bit was on the wings when they mount to the fuz there was a small gap one side and it wasnt proper ly seated making it protrude a little on the underside

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Can't really remember.

It was either a Hawker Hunter fitted with a Jet-Ex unit which didn't fly 'cos is was far too heavy (too much "dope"), or a Lysander type with rubber band drive which must have crashed 'cos I only barely remember it. Must have been about 8 at the time.

Had much better results making "soap box carts" which we called 'bogies'.

We had just the road/hill for this and, in those days, there was only One car in the whole street.

J.

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Mine was definately an Airfix HMS Ajax.

Received as a Christmas present when I was around 6-7 and I made it on my own before my Dad got home.

I remember being particularly chuffed as the turrets turned. I don't think I painted it though. It scares the hell out of me to think that was over fourty years ago!!!

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Yo Bunk! Old git!

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Tiger, I believe the expression you are looking for is 'Mature'.

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Like cheese?

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Lots of small balsa chuck gliders made from balsa bundles.

Then a Keil Kraft Playboy rubber model which dad helped me trim out.

First plastic was a Kleeware Bell 47G helicopter which I still have,used to re-enact all of the 'Whirlybirds' TV series with it,everything from chasing cars to catching crooks ! great fun model,joined by a big Revell Sikorsky H-19 Rescue helicopter with pontoons which expanded my heli operations,that one fell apart.

First Airfix kit was the original thin winged Spitfire copied from Aurora moulds,plastic was pale blue because Airfix brought a load cheap to do the early kits.

As Bunkers says where did all of those years go to ? you youngsters will realise that too one day.

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I built a Red Arrows jet years ago, and i dont really remember building it at all, but the plane is still kicking about somewhere, anyways, it was a bit of a mess lol

Recently decided to buy a Messerschmitt BF109 G10 after looking around the local model shop, and its now finished awaiting a coat of matt varnish

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Matchbox Curtiss C-something-or-rather (cant remmber name but it had yellow wings)....i have loads of matchbox kits but still dont have this one...DOH

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First models have just got to be PAPER AEROPLANES about when I was five years old, following them the Mechano builds of every thing from houses (wirh a stretch of imagination) to all sorts of cars, lorries, boats and busses. Not forgetting cranes which got electrified, only the up down action but "wow". Then balsa was discovered. At least by Dad and I. Chucky gliders by the dozen.

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Does anyone remember a building system called Baco?

It consisted of a bakelite board with holes in it into which you put metal rods. Between the rods you could then slide the building blocks which had different textured faces such as brick. I had quite a bit iof it, including windows, roof units etc and it actually made a very nice model building.

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Which century bunk? bc or ad?