Not sure about the very first but i loved models. i recall a snap tite trans am that i painted metallic green. it was a big deal when i transitioned from snap tite to glue models. that was BIG time!

Remember paying under $5 for a basic car model.

Now they are $30. :eek:

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AMT kits were $2 when I started building.

Tamiya 911. I started a year ago, lost my workspace, I will finish it this summer.

I think model building was a right of passage. Sometimes the first was a joint project with Dad or the solo affair. Testors 3501 -The orange and white tube of glue is burned in my mind. Then moved on to model trains. Life was good.



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not sure if it was the absolute first, but first i can remember was a Sepecat Jaguar

My first was a wooden airplane kit in about 1950 or so when I was 5. I went on to build cars, trains and flying models including a control line model called the Nobler from a set of plans in Model Airplane News designed by George Aldridge. I won the Delaware state stunt championship with it, painted with black lacquer and covered with silk in 1963 and went to 4th place at the AMA nationals in Willow Grove PA. Make muzzle loaders now.
John

I remember getting a $5 bill from my grandmother on my birthday and wanting to go to the store and spend it on a $2.00 model.

My older cool cousin got me my first model it was a 1928 Mercedes SSK.I thought it was so cool I was about 8 at the time and remember taking my time so I could do it just so.

Can't remember the first one I built. It was probably an AMT kit though. My brother and I would build them in our room on the desk Dad built for us to do our home work on. It would get so thick with the smell of glue that Mom would make us open the windows whenever we were using it. This was bothersome during the winter. I remember building a Corvette on the livingroom hide a bed sofa when I had to have my appendics taken out in 1963 and I was restricted to the bed for 2 weeks.
There was an older kid who lived nearby that was really into them. He'd paint them and use that special plastic bondo to shape them too. He made some really nice models.
My brother and I put together the 'Visible V-8'. Now that was a pretty cool model. This was all in the early '60's.

$30? What cheap junk are you buying?

That was the first thing that I did when I got money from relatives.

Me too. My Mom would say that money burned a hole in my pocket.

I used to burn my models for effet. Once in the winter I burned one in the utility sink in the basement. My mom had clothes on a line to dry. Boy, that styrene plastic was a ***** to get off. The smoke was almost solid.

I remember biting off more than I could chew when I bought a model of the USS Forrestal. That sucker was big and had a ton of little aircraft that would hurt lke heck when you stepped on them.

Good memories.

That smell is burned into my nose

My first glue-together model was a Revell Corsair. Hung handsomely from my ceiling until it was gently removed by an Indestructo football.

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I used to burn mine in the driveway. Pissed off my dad, since the puddle of melted model usually had a good amount of gravel embedded in it.

Revell X-15. Then I went on to the entire NASA line. I wish I still had them. Especially the LEM I did an epic job on that.

Can't remember my 1st model, but like many on here I started with Lego/Fischer Price cars, then progressed onto 1:24 Monogram and Revell plastic car models and 1:12 Tamiya F1 model kits

Once I got my driving license it was onto a full size kit car which was a whole new world of fun and expense :cool:

Still collect model cars but now only of cars I've helped create, started with 1:18 but it all got out of hand so I scaled down to 1:43, have over a 100 cars waiting for me to build a display case for.

I can’t remember the first one, but I do remember building several Jeep CJ-7s, corvettes and trans ams... I apparently didn’t get real good taste in cars until HS when I bought my 914!

I was still building models through HS and a few years after, but graduated to exotic cars and Porsches.

Liked Monogram in my younger years and then Testors later on and been stocking up on old Testors for my retirement in a few years or if I get my other home projects done, which ever comes first.

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