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[Steve Jones]

Tamiya's stock Panzer

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I liked it so much I immediately built it again. My first camo attempt. It hasn't improved much since:smiling5:

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[MattSki213]

My first one, well two at same time ware when I was about 12, unfortunately no pictures or models
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Los medium bomber and Lublin both in 1/72.
loads of glue windows on Los ware MATT when i finish and paint done with normal water paint (pilled off day after dry)
but was fun.
Maybe week after I finished my Dad got me those:
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Those ware paper models and took me ages, had to ask my Dad to make me some tools to cut small circles, that was fun

[Guest]

Oh boy!! If I still had the builds I first made and showed them, people would run away.:tears-of-joy: I was seven, fifty years ago and whatever was made became my imaginary army in the sandbox dio I had out in the garden. All bare and unpainted, Dad helped with the decals so I could identify friend from foe but I already knew that. I knew from a very young age that plastics were not biodegradable left out in the sunshine and rain. I did get the occassional warped guns and wings. Sad to say too young to take photos let alone handle my Dads camera.

Cheers,
Richard

Same story same age Richard but my purchases were based on gaining a tactical advantage over the neighbour kid. Every cent I earned went into models, all armour, no paint until I was about 10 or 11. Plastic axles do not hold up well in the dirt I found.

[Guest]

I cannot provide a photo of my first model 'build'. But my father built the Airfix DH-88 Comet racer. This was back in 1958 or so. It was on the windowsill and in pride of place. I decided i would play aeroplanes with it and off came a wing and the cockpit canopy. So after a swift left behind the ear I was given a whole tube of cement (for bicycle innertube repair) and told to stick it back together. This I did with great bravado, no glue left, wing stuck on and cockpit canopy full of glue.
There is also a black and white photo of a proud me, standing in front of my parents on the parade in Blackpool complete with school cap, raincoat, shorts and one sock around the ankle, but in my hands was a card sheet and on this sheet were models of F-86, F-80 etc, I think the modelling standard has improved slightly - but the mentality is a debateable subject.
Cheers, Mike.

[Guest]

Mine was a B29 by Revell, then an attack ship w/many little landing craft, and many others, all Christmas gifts in successive years. We had an O gauge train layout in the basement that grew every year during winter since I was six, so it took up most of my hobby time till I was a teen when other pursuits, cars & women, took over. I may have a photo of the layout, but the models did not survive. PaulE

Paul, the downfall of us all - cars and women.....
Mike.

[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 [ATTACH]324631[/ATTACH][ATTACH]324632[/ATTACH][ATTACH]324633[/ATTACH]

[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.