I built my first model kit in _________, and it was a ____________.

[meechum68]

First kit was a 1:48 scale P-61 Black Widow, which is why I have a soft spot and several in my stash, I was 8-9 years old then. 

It started my love for models.

[1959scudetto]

Must have been in 1969 (in Nov. 1968 we moved from a village in the Tyrolean Alps to a small town south of Vienna, which had two toy/hobby shops!) - my new schoolmates brought me to styrene models, mainly Airfix plastic bag kits: 1/72 WW2 planes, sailing ships and 1/32 car kits which I can remember some - glued together with tube glue, partially painted with Humbrol enamels, and bought another one when pocket money allowed it (NO stash back then!).

I found some pics on the internet:

This is where it started....

 

Edited June 7 by 1959scudetto

[tim boyd]

I built my first model kit in the summer of 1962 at age 8 and it was a Revell 1/25th scale Dodge Lancer GT.  TB ______.

[Wickersham Humble]

Tim: Lancers and Valiants with Exner's 'European' styling: but beware Moostangers; he had the modern long-hood/short deck look nailed before Ford's guys co-opted it.  '62 Ply/Dodge also.  Didn't last long when Engel replaced him.  In 1960, I used my meagre earnings from pumping gas at the local airport on weekends to buy car mags as well as 3-in-1 kits, and fell in love with his Plymouth XNR sports car; wish I could have found a kit of that to 'kustomize' back then.  Very meagre areo, compromised for 'The Forward Look', but rakish and very dramatic in red!  If I found a g-b for sale that was salvageable, I'd buy it -- except for all the dozen 65-year-old kits from my misspent teen years I'm still trying to finish up!  Wick, at 80...