What was your FIRST model kit?

My first model kit was a stingray concept car, It was purple, I don't know what the heck happened to it, BUT my brother has HIS first model car, it's right here on his shelf, the body hand-painted and all, the thing is so heavy, all crazy glue and testors brush paint...

My first ever kit was a Bulldog or something fighter plane from WW2, i was like 8, my dad helped me build it, was unpainted...

My first car kit was a Burago snapkit 1938 Citroen 15cv TA when I was about 10...

Built aircraft until very recently when I completed a Revell BMW NAZCA M12 (I never heard of it either til I built it)...Came together okay, some ill fitting parts, still consider myself a bit of a beginner with cars so I didn't work on making the parts fit right...painted it without primer :P....after that I built my Skyline...now I'm working on an Evo6...

So yeah...many planes...few cars...although that will change :)

Originally posted by Toksin
My first ever kit was a Bulldog or something fighter plane from WW2, i was like 8, my dad helped me build it, was unpainted...

My first car kit was a Burago snapkit 1938 Citroen 15cv TA when I was about 10...

Built aircraft until very recently when I completed a Revell BMW NAZCA M12 (I never heard of it either til I built it)...Came together okay, some ill fitting parts, still consider myself a bit of a beginner with cars so I didn't work on making the parts fit right...painted it without primer :P....after that I built my Skyline...now I'm working on an Evo6...

So yeah...many planes...few cars...although that will change :)


Where in Lower Hutt are you????? I'm origionally from Eastbourne :D


As for my first kit- my NSX- which is somewhere on AF......And I have just finished my second kit a TS-8 Milano Red Honda Jazz which is done exactly the same as my step-sisters new Jazz.- It's a beauty :D

And I did do an R32 GTR in between the NSX and Jazz- but I used Revell glue that really fucked it up ending in me breaking the engine in frustration- and now I have to find a new kit :D



Next project is a 1969 Mini Cooper 1275 S from Tamiya

This is the first i ever built around 25 years ago.(Not mine...just found the pic on the net)
The one i built was smashed by low-lifes that broke into our house and smashed or stole my collection


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Originally posted by primera man
This is the first i ever built around 25 years ago.(Not mine...just found the pic on the net)
The one i built was smashed by low-lifes that broke into our house and smashed or stole my collection


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fucking low-life scum :mad: Being a recent victim of vandalism I know how it feels....:(


how long ago was that PMan (The break in)

Originally posted by Moss1O6GTi



Where in Lower Hutt are you????? I'm origionally from Eastbourne :D


I'm living in Woburn at the moment, got a lot of friends from Eastbourne though :)

A Revell Viper GTS, I smashed it up eventually i was going to rebuild it but i lost half the parts moving to a new house so I just salvaged the motor and wheels. Had the motor in a Impala for a bit then chopped the impala to get ideas for a lowrider project.

This was my first kit. I still have it in my cupboard but it's not very well finished. Badly rippled black gloss paint, bright gloss orange seats :confused: etc.

Mine was some sort of Saturn 5 rocket..It was pretty good, actaually.

My first car, however, was a Tamiya BMW Z3 Roadster. I handpainted the body (I really like that color..Wish I had an airbrush.), didn't know about the wonders of spray paint then. I tried not to paint all the parts I could, so most of my suspension and interior is a satin black, the color it was molded in.

My first ever scale model was a Douglas DC-3 from the USAF.
I’ve built it when I was 8 years old, I guess.
That means …… hummmmmm …… 23 years ago … :rolleyes:

Mine was a revell snaptite Viper GTS my first Level 2 was a Pontiac GTO Judge. And my first japanese model was by Aoshima, and it was the Wings West Accord Wagon.

I swear the first kit I ever got was like a chevy s-10 model..or was it a viper... I would usually get them for christmas, and I remember trying to build the viper with regular school glue, then I broke a part in half and decided to throw away the kit because I thought it wouldn't work. ARGH!

My first was a Tamiya 300ZX. I originally sprayed it yellow but really screwed the body up trying to do the black rubber moldings (by hand with a large brush :bloated: )

So I stripped it..and repainted it clear blue over chrome.

http://www.automotiveforums.com/scalemodeling/daggerlee/300zx2.jpg

I feel like we're talking about girlfriends, or first-time sex experiences. :hehe:

My first model kit was when i was aroung 5 yrs. old.

It was some kind of really small robot.

It costs about 50cents:D

My first car model was when i was in 3rd grade.

It's Hyundai Pony, it's gone when i was 5th grade:(

Here she is!

http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/991802F310B.jpg

Revell Ferrari (what else!!!!) F310b.

Spraypainting??? Polishing??? Decal solution??? Reference photos??? Masking tape??? What are all of those for? :confused:


:p

my first kit was a ford f150 lightning i later tore it apart to use the side skirts on an acura integra
this is the latest kit ive ever built

My first model was a Revell Porsche.I think it was an 87 Porsche.

my very first model was a mercury cougar build with my dad help

first self build kit was a mustang gt
she as later turn into a vert

My very first one was a 1/32 scale pepsi challenger funny car that my mom bought for me while we were in the grocery store. :D I was only about 6, and that one doesnt count because it was just a snap kit and I`m not sure I ever completed it.
It all started for me with a 1982 Trans Am Monogram kit. I bought it for less than $5, and it was a brand new kit at the time. I was in second grade. Haven`t stopped since.

My first scale model was a Westland Lynx helicopter in 1/72 scale from Matchbox, that's 25 years ago.

After a modeling break of a couple of years I restarted but then in cars.
My first car scale model was the Tamiya Rothmans Porsche 956. that's around 17 years ago.

My first car was a hasewaga toyota celica monte carlo...
It was a very hard kit for a beginer, but it was a joy to make.

About 35 years ago:eek: , my first model was a Bubble Top Corvette, if memory serves me right:rolleyes:

My first kit was this,
http://www.modelexpress.net/images/AMT_8232.jpg
A 69' Olds 4-4-2 W-30, built by my dad with little assistance from me when I was about 4-5 yrs old!

My first actual kit, by me and my bro was this,
http://www.modelexpress.net/images/AMT_6111.jpg
A 69' GTX, I remember putting it together with Elmers glue and scotch taped the windows in with no paint, at all, built when I was in 4th grade!

i'm not too sure what my first kit was. it was either a pontiac banshee or a ford ranger. both have similar deaths......new years eve and fourth of july.

The first kit i built as a kid was a corvette z06 in a small scale... maybe 1/32 or something. It was really bad.. body not even painted. Shoddy decals. My first real kit was a tamiya D2 CLK GTR with working lights. Turned out pretty well for an ambitious first project.

Can't remember, must be getting old. The first kit I can remember is older than most of you. It was a 71 MPC Plymouth Duster. The thing I remember is it had a "Sharktooth" grille.

I was a BIG Mopar fan back when I was young, Chevys when I could drive, now I am Toyota all the way. Go Figure???

Deep down there is still a place in my heart for a 440 Challenger that Duster with a Sharktooth grille.

Somewhere back in the haze I remember both a snap-tite space shuttle kit and a Hardeez-sponsored NASCAR. Never finished the NASCAR, and the shuttle was poop, IIRC...

I remember having planes hanging in my room as a kid (and my uncle shooting concord with an air rifle!).

My first car was a '57 Chevy Nomad that I hand painted in metallic green. But, the roof was so badly painted that it ended up as a roadster/pickup thing.

I got to build the USS New Jersy battle ship and the USS Forestal 1/ 750th scale when I was 6. Then My dad and I did a pirate ship. It rocks. We have it still to this day.... weathered the hell out of it and did muslin sails with starch. it looks awesome... I wonder where it is hidden at....... perhaps fer Xmas Ill make an acrylic display case... 20 years after the fact of preventing dust.... :freak1:

FIRST CAR... Testors Porsche 959
I had wanted the Porsche whale tail targa turbo 911 slope nose, but it was sold out. I never got one. :sob:
not that its relevent, but this is what I do now.... I Just finished this piece. 1/8th scale resin. Vampira.

My first model car i beleve was Dale earnhardt #3 monte carlo... I still have it's fairly old.

First EVER kit was a free tiny scale model of an oil platform that fell out of a cereal box when I was about 6! Then I went on to the usual Airfix 1/72 Spitfire. The first car was a Matchbox 1/32 Porsche 917/10, the first 1/24 was the Tamiya VW Golf Grp2 Kamei racer in the late 70s I think.

Ah, happy memories - the first one was about 30 years ago...

Wow, I believe my first kit was an MPC '82 Corvette street machine. I remember it was a larger scale, maybe 1/20 and came with optional widebody fender flares, side pipes, and your standard big engine sticking out of the hood. That one is long since gone :frown:

And another one. :mad:

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