What was the first model you ever made

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One day you'll be there, in your late fourties, ish!! Just think where you'd be without all this help and advise that us more mature members give out so selflessly. Bloody spoilt you are!

I beleive 'Baco' was around in the 60's as the set was passed down to me from some relative or other. It was competition for Meccano in its day but you couldn't do anything else than make buildings with it so its appeal was limited and it died a death.

Where's the respect nowadays that's what I want to know...etc....etc...

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my first model was a SR-71 i used liquid poly to glue it and i painted it in power ranger colours. this was because dad told me i could paint it however i liked. This then made me paint it in all power ranger colours because it was a big thing for me at the time i was 7. lol

[wonwinglo]

Richard,I think you will find it was the Bayko building system,advertised in the Meccano magazine circa fifties ( this centuryTiger ! )

There was another building system that utilised real bricks and morter,whereby you used a small trowel,the cement could be dissolved and the bricks salvaged.

In my collection of historic ( this century again ) consructors sets I have one called Kliptiko,again rods and things,the most unusual one was Junero,this had some clever little bending tools ( still in use in my twentieth century workshop ) you got a sheet of mild steel,rods,road wheels,corrugated panels,some small parker kalers etc the idea was unlike Meccano you had to make your own parts,there was even a useful hole punch,all great instructional toys/models in their day,dont forget we had no computers whatsoever,and despite what people think these items were expensive,purchase tax crippled models and toys after WW2,magazines were booming and sold in their millions unlike today,they were the lifeblood of model building,today in Smiths you see a dozen at the most of model mags,deliveries of for example the Aeromodeller would be in the region of 500 copies to my local model shop alone,once again no internet,the only mail order was people like Henry.J.Nicholls & Roland Scott,they would carry expensive two page ads in the magazines,selling mostly to serving members of H.M Forces who had flourishing model clubs back then.

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I knew you would have a bit more on it Barry. My set is still in the attic somewhere, I must root it out one day and bring back a few memories.

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One day you'll be there, in your late fourties, ish!! Just think where you'd be without all this help and advise that us more mature members give out so selflessly. Bloody spoilt you are! I beleive 'Baco' was around in the 60's as the set was passed down to me from some relative or other. It was competition for Meccano in its day but you couldn't do anything else than make buildings with it so its appeal was limited and it died a death.

Where's the respect nowadays that's what I want to know...etc....etc...

My dad used to live in a shoe box in't middl'tut road, his dad used to wake 'im up wit' broken bottle, "breakfast" he'd say-, we had to lick road clean of a mornin and eat a handfull of gravel for us tea. We'd be packed off to work at pit wit no shoes on for 62 hours a day and pay tut' pit owner fot priveledge.

By bedtime we'd all be dead and father would dance on graves singin hallejulyah.

You kids today havent lived...etc etc:shutup3:

:regards: Terence aged 42 :emo10:

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You're too young to remember that sketch!!!!!!

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nob off!!! watched them all first time round with my dad i'll have been around 8 or 9....and discovering spike milligan , the goons,,,, that was the day that was etc etc....and still oday nothing tops the original pathos,satire and geniune comic genius of milligan. 99% of todays comedy can be traced back to original material written by Spike.

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I don't think I can remember being told to "nob off" before.

If anyone did it here I'd just sack them so that probably has a lot to do with it!!!

One of the other Chiefs once got told to F**k Off. Mind you that was after he had just sacked someone!!!

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My first model 1695 in Finland

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

I must have been about 8 years in 1965...it was a ME 163 rocket plane, made by airfix or frog. My big brother tubeglued it and i was watching, but it inspired me to buy and build more models through the years!

( sorry fo my bad english

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Mine was an airfix Stuka, mainly built by our neighbour John. We put on the telly. Cat knocked it off.

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Airfix Mig-21 1/72 it was 1979-80

[jspitza]

My first was the snow speeder from empire strikes back. I remember this one well because although I did not know it, I started the standard panel line washing technique using thinned Testors black paint and spirits- it looked really good. BUT if this worked so well, why not try for the real thing? I actually burned the back end to simulate exhaust stains. and was 9 at the time. I then managed to ignite the model. All I saw was a huge black plum of smoke growing up and into the basement rafters - I was ready to crap on myself. I was quick enough to run the model outside and avoid a house fire. I was lucky!!!!!!!! I also made sure to have an excuse when my parents got home for the burning smell that engulfed the home. And to think that the effect worked like a charm too........:smile11:

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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

Yep like most modellers at that time of the dark and distant late 60s and early 70s was the Airfix Spitfire Mk9 in the plastic bag in Johnnie Johnsons markings.

I seem to remember it was in light blue plastic and when I finished it with my dad I just put the decals on it and then played out 'The Battle of Britain' film over and over again.

I think this could be a great topic to get other like minded modellers to remenis about their early memorys of our fine hobby.

Planesy

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Mine was a old chevrolet camaro (one of the hornby starter kits)

Great little thing. lol

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hey bunk, and wonwinglo - re - reading some old posts and the penny dropped

i had the chairman of the bayko collectors club contact me recently, they want to come and see how we do our models at work !- 2009 sees several model shows featuring Bayko, its a milestone year for this old building product, i thinks its 75 years of bayko in 2009...

apparently the sets are worth a bit now !