discussion Show your first kit(s)

[Lee Drennen]

Here’s my first after a 10yr absence. I started building planes when I was around 8yrs off and on then in 1988-89 I got heavy in building planes and stopped. I built this one in 1998 and never built another plane till a couple years ago View attachment 324631View attachment 324632View attachment 324633

 

[SimonT]

Way back in the mid to late 1970's and long gone - couldn't have afforded film for the instamatic camera to take pictures, or the subsequent developing.

Pretty sure it was an Albatross WW1 biplane in 1/48 - possibly by Monogram??

It definitely got painted in a streaky silver with a pale yellow gloss nose as they were pretty much the only paints I had

 

[Bigfoot57]

My 1st kit was a Airfix 1/72 F4 phantom from the U.S.S Foresteral I was so new to modelling that I cut out the transfers and glued them onto the model didn’t read about dipping them in water think I was 7 or 8 at the time thats over 50 years ago oh my

 

[boatman]

Hi all this one of my first models when in my early teens wont down load sorry guys chris

 

[Guest]

My first one was a 1/72 Revell Corsair when they still had them in the bags. My local department store stocked them. I don't have any pics of it but it wasn't painted as it came in blue anyway! I do have a photo of my xmas builds one year all 1/72 bagged Revell kits. Not a great pic as I am the focus of it but you can see them sitting there sadly on the bench, no landing gear in sight or paint! Glue fogging up the canopies.