your first kit.............

what was the first kit ya'll built, The one that got you started in the hobby

here's mine

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built it in 1989 at the tender age of 5, bought it at Wal-Mart after the first one opened in my area. sadly it did'nt last long becouse I was only 5 and beat the crap outa it

Hmm i have to think back a long time. Old Ford snap type kit. Made by revelle. I think it was a wrecker. It didn't last long. Chuck'd it at a wall in my room.

my first was a pontiac banshee which my cuzin actually made, i gotta get sum pics of his models, they are sweet... that one was stolen by a teacher.... long story... the first i made by myself was a revell Camaro..step 2...lots of glue... and it looked like it was fallin apart, i put it on a shelf but when i came home it was broken on the ground ... so sad :'(:banghead:

I laugh because my first kit was a Revell 1970 AAR 'Cuda. Did a decent job with it, even though I brush painted the body. Reason I laugh is because that kit is so horribly inaccurate, and accuracy has become one of my biggest concerns in modeling.

Mine would have to be the Revell Acura NSX. :p

RS

I cant remember if it was an amt or a revell, but my mom bought me a snap together silver sting ray corvette when I was in elementary school, like 3rd grade.

Tamiya Ford Sierra XR4i - built with guidelines and help from an uncle. The very first model kit that led me into car modeling. I kind of reworked it a little such as clearcoat, wipers, wheels, black light housing, etc. Its hood became my very first try on CF effects and adding hood vents.
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Not long after I migrated to Canada, I picked up a GMC jimmy, forgot the brand - the first kit built by myself. I still have some parts of it left!
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well my first real kit is in progress, click my sig for pix

but my first kit is this lol:
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ummmm a nascar model of Kevin Harwick's Monte Carlo, that was like 6 months ago lol

AMT Ford Taurus SHO, I want another one too lol

A Mustang fastback...
Made by Palmer (I think). It had an awful multi piece body but lots of optional chrome parts. That was back when the Mustang fastback first came out! So, just a couple of years ago...lol
I guess the first model I built as an adult would be ok too.
That was a Ferrari 'Magnum P.I.' 308 from Revell. Just needs a bit of dusting, not bad considering I built it 20 years ago... lol
:p

well, way back when before i got serious, i had partially built an AMT 55' Corvette... but my first serious model was Tamiya's 350z Track

Fujimi Lamborghini Diablo 2WD... And second one was the Enthusiast Series Countach!
Lambo Fever!

my first kit was a 55 vette with a nova engine and it was brush painted 2 tone orange and black. lol (dont ask me why i did it) it had no hood and no windows and no drive shaft no lights. lol it was awful lol i still had it up until i moved now i dunno where it is now.

Mine was the skyline from 2 fast 2 furious. It was awful. I accidentaly painted the front window so I took that off. Also the body was hand painted and I was too lazy to paint the interior.

My first serious model was a 63 Chevy Impala that I am still working on. My first diecast model was a 03 Ford Expedition that I am still working on.

The first model car I can remember building, was the General Lee. A Dodge Charger from the Dukes of Hazard TV show. The show was still on TV (and not in re-runs) at the time. :)

That was so long ago (late 1960's), I dont remember. I built hundreds of models when I was a kid, then quit. In 1994 I started building again. A Tamiya RC30 motorcycle and a Lotus 99T were the first two.

A Revell VW van. I still have a version of it to build again!! Thanks ebay!!!

ford formula one,dont paint it and use superglue from a tube.about 10 years ago.

revell 64 impala

Tamiya 1/24 Calsonic Skyline GT-R (R33). I built it in 1999.

http://www.quietrage.com/cars/cal_r33/calr33_final.jpg

Need to take some new (and better) pics of my old models.

i built 3 revell integra type r's, yellow, black and white

I think I built my first model a good 6-7 years ago... It was the revell 1970 2'n 1 Mustang boss kit. I butched it so bad, I think it ended up being painted a flat metallic brown, lol. Oh well, I had fun building it, and several years later I decided to try another model...

the first model i ever built was #28 Havoline NASCAR Thunderbird, or a 1984 Mustang GT. i cant remember which. My first real model was a Ford Thunderbird NASCAR Model. Cant remember what sponsor it was, but it was #5 i think.

Airfix 1:48 Spitfire Vb Tropical way back in about '79 with some help from my Dad.

First car was a Matchbox/AMT Ford Capri that I brush painted Humbrol Bronze with a black roof. That was in '83. I've come a long way since then, but I'd love to build that kit again.

My uncle gave me Hellers Mini Cooper and my first "real" model was Volvo F16 by Revell.

i built 3 revell integra type r's, yellow, black and white

I did them too, but mine were in yellow, orange and dark blue.

Tamiya Jaguar MK ll Saloon........Trashed long ago but wouldnt i just love to get my hands on one today !!!

Later, Mike :smokin:

Here's my very first...done last year (yeah, i'm pretty new at this :D)


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Wow that is pretty good for your first model.

my first HMM wow gotta think. i started models about 8 years ago. i have a revell snap tite police car. it is a smaller car, and my grandpa helped paint the body, it is 2 tone, he did the paint but the rest i did. it wasnt bad, i ahve it in my shop in the garage! surprised it has lasted!!

mine was a revel montecarlo aerocoupe didnt even get painted i messed it up by trying to cut the doors open

i was about 6, revell K.I.T.T. from the tv show "Knight Rider" (pontiac trans am). i didnt know any better back then so i removed all parts from the trees before anything, didnt know what went where, it had like over 100 pieces. it was defintely level 3, but thru the eyes of a 6 yr old, level one billion. tossed evrythig back in the box, and thats the last time i evr saw it...

1st real model came later when i was 12, 64 impala with hydros (although i never got them to actually work too good)

my was a civic type r

The first kit i made was this Tamiya Castrol R32 Skyline, very easy to build so i have stuck with Tamiya kits from there.

http://www.legendshobbies.com/cars/Tam/TAM24111%20CASTROL%20RB%20SKYLINE%20GT-R%20Gr.N.jpg

Lindberg 63 Ford Cougar II i turned into a derby car last year...

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This was my 1st about 4-5 years ago.

Showing my age here but my first kit was an Airfix Northrop Freedom fighter, series 1 in the plastic bag with a header card that had the instructions inside,I still like the aircraft, must have been around 1968/69 cost 2 shillings in old money, ten pence at todays value. Holy crap has it been that long?