discussion What was the first model you ever made

[Guest]

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

 

[Guest]

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

 

[Guest]

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

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Guest]

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?

 

[wonwinglo]

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.

 

[Guest]

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?

 

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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.

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Guest]

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: