First model

[my66s55]

The first model I built was a wood & balsa destroyer. That was in 1951. The first car model I built was a Gowland & Gowland when they first came out and showed up in the local hobby shop. I think that was 1951 or 52.

[Tony T]

I can't recall the manufacturer, but I think it may have been a Palmer kit around 1967/68 (I was 5 or 6). Could have been a Mustang, or maybe a Corvette. I just recall the 4 posts between the chassis and the upper half of the body that fit into holes in teh chassis, and the two lower body sides that got a good gluing to keep them in place! Built it at my Grandmother's kitchen table, with lots of newpaper down!! I think it was 1/32 scale. Not sure what happened to it, but I may have a wheel or side pipe in my parts box still.

First one I built with my Dad's help (the only one, actually!) was an AMT '53 Ford pick up, maybe around 1968/69. I still have that one in a box packed away, that I rebuilt at least once, maybe twice over the years...with Testor's bottle paints and brushes. I did buy a reissue of that kit that I haven't built yet.

[runsw/scissors]

My Grandmother bought me my first model when I was staying with her for 2 weeks, just to give me something to do to keep me out of her hair. This would have been the early 70's. If memory serves me right it was the double dragster kit, and my uncle built most of it for me, "cause it was way over my head. But it got me hooked.

[mr moto]

First car model that I remember was an IMC GT40.

That's what I call "jumpin' in at the deep end." If anybody has tried to build one of those highly detailed beasts, you know what I mean.

My first model was a Revell Bomarc guided missile in 1958. I got an AMT 3 in 1 '59 Ford Galaxie for Christmas 1959 and it's been all cars ever since.

[TurboKitty]

I remember mine was a Dodge Viper R/T 10 kit that I failed miserably at, so I burned it. I don't count it as my first since it never even got the chance to look like a car, instead it had the body sitting on the chassis with wheels what were horribly crooked, and I just couldn't stand the glue fumes lol.

The one I do count as my first came about a year or so later, when I was 9 or 10. It was the AMT 1965 Ford Galaxie 500, with the burgundy car on the box. I remember that I asked my dad for that specific car since he had won a 1965 Chevy Malibu SS from a radio station here in Michigan way back in the early 90s, and a '65 Chevelle kit wasn't reissued yet (that came a few years later), the Galaxie looked similar & was the same color basically. My dad's Malibu SS was Madeira Maroon, God I miss that car. Long story short, after he passed away in '96 my mom ended up having to sell it to pay bills, and it got hauled off to some guy in either California or New York to add to his collection

[59 Impala]

My first kit was some kind of airplane in the mid 50's, boy do I wish that I could remember which one. Then my next few kits were more planes. I didn't start cars until the early 60's, maybe 60 or 61. Whenever the 40 Fords came out. I don't really remember what the first car I built was. I do however have some of the first ones that I did build packed away in boxes. And, old dumb me thru away or shot up some really good and rare cars to boot. 60 Pontiac convertable, 62 Bonneville convertable, 49 Merc, Ala Cart, 25 T, 65 Mustang coupe and fast back, and a few others. Boy, I sure wish that I had them now. Dan

Edited August 17, 2010 by 59 Chevy Impala

[whale392]

1981 or 1982 (I was 6 or 7 anyway), I got curious and dug into the boxes in the basement. Dads old models were in one of the boxes. I was overwhelmed and just HAD to try to be like my dad (seeing his semi trucks/trailers on display in the sunk/mirrored bookcase in the living room), so I tried to start building one. Yeah, I murdered a perfectly good AMT/SMP Trophy kit 1962 Chrysler Imperial Convertible. And to this day I have an almost perfect record of not finishing one!!

[B_rad88]

my very first model was when i was 6 years old, it was a lamborghini countach, it was black with blue/purple stickers, and the big spoiler, it was a sanp-together kit, i don't remember who made it, but yeah, that was my first kit i ever built.

i have been looking for the info on this kit for years now, it was my first kit i built and i want to find out what it is, but i still never found this kit....... i have looked for ever now, and no luck. would anyone have a clue?

[The Modeling Hermit]

my first model cam in August of 1960. My family was on vacation in Tulsa Oklahoma, and the son of the people we were visiting had a wall filled with models. At least it looked filled to an eight year old kid. I was hooked immediately. The family visited a Sears store and in the process a 1960 Oldsmobile hardtop model was purchased for me. It didn't come out looking like what I build now, but it was a great start. It's hard to believe that was 50 years ago this month. I have never regretted it.

[Dave Ambrose]

I was in the first grade when I built my first model, an HH-43B Huskie helicopter.

My second model was an F7U Cutlass. My first car was a 1962 Thunderbird hardtop. (not so) Oddly enough, I just got another '62 T-bird model; this time, a convertible.

Edited August 25, 2010 by Dave Ambrose

[Goll]

My first was a revell kit of a ferrari F50, did a pretty rough job of it but learnt alot, now progressing nicely

[kitbash1]

Frog 1/72 Tribal Class Destroyer. I was 7 years old.

[coopdad]

I am not sure if I am the only one but I want to be sure my son can visit a thread like this... I grabbed his first and packed it away. Hopefully he will become as sentimental as his old man and remember the wonderful times back when he was a kid.

Not my first model but I remember building a B-52 kit that Santa brought one Christmas morning, finished it before my parents got out of bed.

John

[Jantrix]

Mine was a Mustang funny car snap kit molded in some aweful green. It may have been 1/32 scale.

[Mr. Moparman]

My first?

I was in the second grade when I got the AMT General Lee w/incorrect body on my B-day. My dad built and I painted.

Edited August 25, 2010 by '69 Charger Daytona

[Hawk312]

Here was my first build:

I got this back when it was an annual kit, when it just came out. It was an `83 Trans Am, but I seem to remember getting it in `82. I put it together, probably in about 2-3 hours without painting anything, and then tried to paint things with a q-tip after it was built. I was in second grade at the time, and I haven`t stopped building since. I probably built this and the other Monogram Firebirds of the time (the `82 and the GTA) about 20 times altogether. I have an `82 kit sitting around that I want to build some day here soon.

Edited August 25, 2010 by Hawk312