Do you remember the first plastic model you assembled?

[Steve Carlton]

It must have been when I was in 4th or 5th grade I bought a U.S.S. Enterprise model, and it was a fairly large box.



I picked it up at the local hobby store and took it home on my 10-speed. I didn't have the brake levers I could apply when my hands were on the top of the bars and while riding home with one hand on the bars and the other holding the box to my side I had to go to the dirt sidewalk in an intersection as lots of cars were coming through. There was a fence with posts and a couple of cross bars to my left with rose bushes sticking through and not being able to stop, I ran into the mailbox post near the driveway to the house. I fell into the street to my right with my left arm going under a 60's VW bus and it ran over my arm, breaking one of the bones and roughing up the skin, stripping it completely off at my wrist, exposing white bone. I didn't feel hurt, but was a little in shock. The lady driving the bus put me in the back with my bike, and there was a baby standing in a crib back there, too. She gave me a ride home, and of course my mom kind of freaked out. I had a paper bag with some glue in it tucked under my shirt and she thought it was a bandage of some sort. The model was undamaged and I assembled it with my half cast on. Hard cast on the underside and a bandage wrapped around it to service the abrasions. The doctor said it was mostly like a 2nd degree burn. I still have the scars where my bone came through. Good times!

[Por_sha911]

I loved drag racing back in the 60's. My first model (as best as I can remember) was the Cuda Hemi Under Glass. In that same time I also built the "Beer Wagon". I believe they were both my Monogram.
Later, besides cars I did the SR71 Blackbird and a rotating V8 engine that had clear cylinders and lights that flashed to shot spark plugs firing.

[HobieMarty]

I built all of these Snap-Tite kits from Monogram. Stampede was the first. There were a few more that aren't in the picture. I know there was one called "The Fiend" and there was also a Gremlin-bodied one.

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[Brown747]

Originally Posted by Brown747

Here I am in about ‘68 gluing together the Hawk F9F Panther. A hobby that has stayed with me for a lifetime.

[Bill Douglas]

Spitfire.

My mom was a cool mom and hung them from the ceiling above my bed.

[KFC911]

I can't remember .... I used a LOT of Testor's glue back then ... the good "stuff"

It probably met it's fate with a firecracker too!

[A930Rocket]

We built some kind of battleship, that we sent floating down the pond in front of our house, on fire and with a firecracker. Maybe a few cars too. I couldn’t help but get glue all over the car.. I sucked at it!

[Por_sha911]

Back when I started with model cars, you could just go in and buy the glue (the good stuff that stunk to high heaven) without any hassle. That changed when huffing became a thing.

[Rapewta]

A German V-1 The unmanned rocket model that had the cool clear red plastic flame coming out the back. Around 1960.
When I discovered girls around 15 years old, I took my plastic models outside and blew them up with firecrackers. Uncool for a girl to go to your room and see a bunch of plastic hot rods

[HobieMarty]

I used to blow my model cars up and rebuild them. Lol.

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[Baz]

I used to put together WW1 fighter aircraft

[monoflo]

USS Enterprise ---aircraft carrier

[jmaxwell]

AMT Double whammy, 53 Studebaker with twin GMC blowers

[Scott Douglas]

It was probably some AMT model, but I can't remember which.
Testors glue was the go-to stuff for me and my brother.
Got so bad that Mom made us open the windows in our room, even in the middle of winter.

[astrochex]

Originally Posted by Scott Douglas

It was probably some AMT model, but I can't remember which.
Testors glue was the go-to stuff for me and my brother.
Got so bad that Mom made us open the windows in our room, even in the middle of winter.

Probably something like this for me too, or a Revel. Likely a hot rod like the Red Baron.

[DWBOX2000]

One of those ww2 amphibious vehicles.

[Tobra]

F 104 6th grade

I remember thinking the wings were too short for it to fly.

Coolest model I ever saw in my life was one dad got when he was an attorney for them. Metal SR 71 on a little stand you would sit on your desk. Nicest model I have ever seen of anyting.