The first kit I ever saw was a Airfix bagged Kittyhawk in the one true scale of 72nd scale It was a Sunday School Xmas party gift. I made arrangements with all...
Was a comet model of the Skyknight. At that time Woolworths in the UK stocked both Airfix and Comet models. The Airfix at 2/- (2 shillings) took all my pocket...
Mine was a Monogram B-66 about 50 years ago when I was around 7 years old! I guess that was close to the time it was first released. My father bought it for...
Airfix was my staple diet back then. I recall that the Kittyhawk and a tube of Britfix glue (or was it Humbrol?) came to less than 15 South African cents....
The very small Aurora B-52, built in about 1958 at age 7. My big brother and modeling mentor explained that I should start with the simpler Auroras and then...
While I can't swear that this was my first kit, the first I can remember is the Aurora Spitfire-in it's electric blue styrene. My neighbor and I both bought...
First kit? I don’t have any idea! But, I had them all! Or, almost all! My playroom was littered with models, and about 95% of them were aircraft. Ships made...
I remember those Aurora kits in hideous colors--the yellow Zero, black FW-190, sky-blue P-38. I will be glad to stand corrected by one more knowledgeable than...
My first built kit was a Strombecker wood P-40, about 1947, age 10. Painted it in a bizarre camo scheme of olive green and insignia orange. Then I recall a...
My first kit was a 7th birthday present from my older brother in 1950.A Strombecker DC-3....one of the old wooden kits with a packet of filler that you mixed...
Hawk F-84G. I thought who would buy these things as wood is so easy to work with. In addition, the only glue I had was elmers white glue which just doest work...
The first airplane kit I remember was probably an FW 190 in brown plastic, possibly a Lindberg, in second grade or so - 1963-64. The first ship kit I remember...
Hi fella's. Name here is Jerry Robinson ("THUDNUTZ"). I'm 61 years of age..been modeling off & on (mostly "off"), since 1954..live in the Duluth, MN area. I...
Hi, My first kit (I was 8-years old, a 2nd Grader, Spring of '51), was a 1/48th OLIN (later Lindberg),Forney "Aero-Coupe", in red plastic, if I remember...
Good luck on the new list! This is a memory jogger for sure. I just wish I had a few of the models that ended up as BB gun targets. The "Air Power" kit on the...
I don't even recall the manufacturer, scale, or make of kit. It was some kind of Ford hot rod that I talked my Mom into getting me around age 7 or 8 I think....
Hi all, I can't remember what my first kit was,but do recall the first one I built and painted entirely on my own. It was the Lindberg D.H. Comet kit. This was...
Hi, My first kit was an Airfix DeHavilland Chipmunk, Eventually ended up as more glue than kit i think but the modelling bug had bitten, I`m a lifelong Airfix...
My first kit came from the corner drug store,when I was about 8.I had just spent my allowance on a bagged vintage car kit(Airfix, I think), and knew NOTHING...
My first two were a Mercedes convertible, probably 1/48 or 1/43 scale and a tiny DC-8 in Delta Airlines livery. I think I got the car first, but whichever...
A Tiny DC-8? Could it have been the Lindberg? The Aurora DC-8 is a large kit. The insect would be the Renwal Insect Science, like I had mentioned. I'll try and...
... large kit. Yes, it was the Lindbergh kit. Thanks. ... That's the one. I built about half a dozen different kits for the science teacher. Other than the...
Here's a better shot of the Lindberg kit. It's a real dog, BTW. It's claim to fame would have to be the Delta decals. Delta frowns on model decals now. The...
... There was and is a Visible Horse, and there are also large scale eye and heart kits, and I think just a torso at a larger scale than the Visible Man &...
... claim to fame would have to be the Delta decals. Delta frowns on model decals now. The early Delta jets got a lot of exposure, though, and they kept these...
I had a shrinkwrapped(?) set of approximately 4 Lindberg 1/72 scale WWII fighters with the cutouts. I remember a Mustang and a Thunderbolt in it but I don't...
... I remember seeing those, but I didn't build them for the science teacher. It's possible they weren't all renwal kits. I also built a few of the Rube...
I'll be 61 in April and have been modeling on and off since1950 with a
hiatus of about 20 years while I was in the Navy. I remember the cherry red
109 you...
Hi all, One of the models I remember buying several times over was the Aurora B-17. That poor kit suffered many a bad paint scheme at my hands. The worst one...
