It's been a really interesting thread this - some real 'classics' for sure.
For me it's three kits I tried to build as a kid. The first was the Airfix 1/72 F-105E, and the Second was their 1/72 F-111E. Both Aircraft I loved and both were Christmas presents from my uncle (ex-Green Jackets, blackbelt in various martial arts and my hero as a kid) and both I messed up completely - I remember trying to make them as proper models rather than 'things to play with' and being rather upset when I found they were beyond my skillset.
I actually built the F-105E again a few years ago - I really should get around to adding the tanks and bombs etc. And get myself an F-111.
AS far as the third goes - well that was this one, my first 1/48th kit...
Again this was a present from my uncle. At the time I was completely mad on playing Microprose's 'Gunship' on my Commadore C64 and he knowing this got it me for my birthday. Again I tried to build it properly, but struggled with the clear parts etc. and then horror of horrors, having left it in it's box on my bedroom floor, I got home from school to find the cat had used said box as a litter tray!!! (not the cat's fault, someone had locked him in my room). I was absolutely gutted! Sufficed to say it went in the bin.
I'd love to get another and rebuild it, in my favourite Gunship load out of 16 Hellfires!
For me it's three kits I tried to build as a kid. The first was the Airfix 1/72 F-105E, and the Second was their 1/72 F-111E. Both Aircraft I loved and both were Christmas presents from my uncle (ex-Green Jackets, blackbelt in various martial arts and my hero as a kid) and both I messed up completely - I remember trying to make them as proper models rather than 'things to play with' and being rather upset when I found they were beyond my skillset.
I actually built the F-105E again a few years ago - I really should get around to adding the tanks and bombs etc. And get myself an F-111.
AS far as the third goes - well that was this one, my first 1/48th kit...
Again this was a present from my uncle. At the time I was completely mad on playing Microprose's 'Gunship' on my Commadore C64 and he knowing this got it me for my birthday. Again I tried to build it properly, but struggled with the clear parts etc. and then horror of horrors, having left it in it's box on my bedroom floor, I got home from school to find the cat had used said box as a litter tray!!! (not the cat's fault, someone had locked him in my room). I was absolutely gutted! Sufficed to say it went in the bin.
I'd love to get another and rebuild it, in my favourite Gunship load out of 16 Hellfires!