One of the first's
1964 Pontiac GTO, 1/25 scale, 3 in 1, AMC, bought from the local Mom and Pop store for $1.98....

I built this combo in about 1979 or so. I spent hours building 1/25 scale cars and trucks. I entered a few contests and won a few trophies.

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P-80 Shooting Star circa 1962

I don't remember the first one but I do remember the local Pic-N-Save had a nice selection of Italeri models which were much better quality than Revell and Monogram. Lots of WWII tanks to choose from so I built plenty of those for little money.

Mine was a cheapo model I got when I was about 6-7 years old. I wasn't smart enough to follow the directions and I remember I installed the gearshift on the hood as a hood ornament. I have gotten my 11 year-old into building models and we've built 3-4 over the last couple of months. This is the one I built:

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1915 Model T molded in light blue, including the wheels and tires. There was a motor to wind but I couldn't get it to work.
The ships and planes were gone many years ago but I still have many of the cars
Best
Les

I can't remember .... Testors was some good stuff! Whatever model it was .... probably destroyed by a firecracker .... M80s would have been excessive :D

I remember 2: 1957 Ford station wagon. My uncle helped me build it. A BMW motorcycle - it was green.

Late 60's Corvette, maybe a Revell kit. I remember the little chrome F.I. unit that mounted on the engine. Also, not being able to wait for the paint to dry, so my fingerprints were on the sides.

Just one when I was quite young.

A Gee Bee R.

Things I don't enjoy:
Painting small parts for a non functional model.
Glueing small parts for a non functional model.
A wonder it ever got built.
It was more my dad not wanting it to go to waste so he pushed me through doing the process.
I don't have it on display, but I could find it if I searched.
A few years ago I sat down with legos and came up with my own Gee Bee.
I do have that out and in view.

One I enjoyed:


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This kit is on ebay for $99. Sheesh!

As a point of curiosity, did anyone have an outcome as good as what is on the box?
I did get better at paintwork when I was a teenager.
Painted my own RC car shells.
Never revisited plastic modeling.

1958 Revell Regulus II Missilehttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1614780075.jpg

I have memories of two models from my childhood, but I don't remember which was first. One was a P-51C, probably 1/48 or bigger, unpainted, with numerous glue fingerprints. Other was a 1/72 Mig-29 that got spray bombed flat dark green, just like the real deals LOL

It was The Red Baron. Not the Fokker Tri plane but the show car.....

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I need to stop reading this forum. This thread made me find this kit from my childhood.


https://www.tamiyausa.com/shop/-road-buggies/rc-sand-scorcher-2010/2wd-off-road-racer/

Built this one, probably around 1970:

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Followed shortly after by a half dozen of their 1/12 scale kits. Lola T70 (three times) and the Honda V12, Tyrrell and Lotus 49 F1 cars. Thence onto a 1:32 F4 Phantom (probably Revell) and assorted drag racing cars.

I still have a few of my old ship models. The one I really wish I still had is the Cutty Sark. That thing was huge, with a main mast almost 3 foot tall. There was no way my folks would let me ship it back state side when we moved from Guam so it was left behind in the rent house when we moved. A friend wrote me later and said it wound up on a shelf behind the bar at a restaurant, called the Pirates Cove there on Guam. I honed my ship building skills on this one before I tackled the Cutty Sark. A photo of my HMS Bounty.
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Probably something along the lines of this guy. military stuff first --cars came later

I probably started with snap-tite kits but then graduated to glued models shortly after. I lived in Japan when I was 8-10 and again at 13-15, so I built a bunch of tamiya models. I think I also built a bunch of Revell stuff when I was in the US. I think I went through a period of WWII stuff when I was in Japan, also a bunch of cars, and then also later jet age planes.