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The first one was the Matchbox Tempest which I built as a Mk.V with the help of my father. There were no decals, or we lost them, in any case I brushed the markings on... with gouache paint - lots and lots of it as it would not stick.

The second one was an Airfix F-5 with instructions that had you attaching the air intakes upside down.Thirty years later, I saw a review of the same kit on SAMI - with the air intakes upside down. Nostalgia...

My 'serious' start was some ten years later with an Airfix F-15, painted with oils as the shop didn't stock enamels.

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1980, 4-years-old, 1/48 Monogram Hawker Typhoon and 1/72 Revell F-4E that I built with my grandfather. I still have them both, unpainted though decalled. These were gifts of appreciation given to me by a friend of my dad's for taking him to the air show in Everett, WA. The friend is a Vietnam veteran who was a conscientious objector that signed on as a corpsman. While out in the field, the guy in front of him stepped on a mine, killing that soldier and the shrapnel shredding the friend's legs, thus requiring the near-constant use of a wheelchair ever since.

Edit: I've actually found boxings of both kits I intend to build at a later date for skill comparison. I know my grandfather, with his machinist tendencies, always wanted to rig the Typhoon with a motor to spin the propeller and a means to illuminate the lights. With today's technology in micro-motors and LEDs, I intend to do just that.

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I couldn't say with certainty, but it would have been probably 1973-74 making me about 6. In the runnung for first is the Hawk Spirit of St Louis, T-6 Texan or the AMT Star Trek Enterprise. One of my first on my own was an A-26 in silver plastic (maybe Airfix?), and I remember a chrome plated P-47 razor back.

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Mine was a Monogram snap tight Space Shuttle that my moms co-worker gave to me as a present for my 4th birthday. I remember staring at the box and looking at what seemed like a million pieces for hours waiting to build it with my dad. Then, sitting at the kitchen table with my dad while he was cussing up a storm because he couldn't get it go together.

Good times.

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Mine was a Monogram snap tight Space Shuttle that my moms co-worker gave to me as a present for my 4th birthday. I remember staring at the box and looking at what seemed like a million pieces for hours waiting to build it with my dad. Then, sitting at the kitchen table with my dad while he was cussing up a storm because he couldn't get it to go together.

Good times.

oops double post.

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1/48 Monogram F-20 Tigershark. My father came home from work one day with a kit for myself and one for my brother. I never knew if he stopped at the hobby shop on his way home or if the kits were from a coworker, but we spent the next several evenings at the dining room table gluing pieces together over newspaper. No paint or decals.

Aaron

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During eve of New Year in 1980 (i'm was 7) parents presented to me GDR-made VEB-Plastikart 1/20 Vostok-1 Gagarin spaceship model, it was included glue and allumium enamel, i'm not went to bed untill non-finishing model, i'm work up to sunrise of 1'st January.

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My first kit was a Japan Airlines 777 jet which I received as a birthday gift when I was just 7. But I was still alien to this hobby then so my dad did the whole assembly for me. ;)

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The first one was some (most probably) 1/72 jet aircraft, possibly from Matchbox. I don't know why I think it was a Matchbox kit since I really can't remember any other details. I just have a hunch.

Slapped it together, didn't bother painting it (I didn't even have any paints) but I remember mentioning to my little brother about the decals and why the heck they have to be water slide decals and not just ordinary stickers. No wonder I hated the decaling process for years. Now I actually like it.

The first ones I built with certain degree of devotion were 1/144 Revell jets that I had bought from a local grocery store. After that, I was hooked.

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Slapped it together, didn't bother painting it (I didn't even have any paints) but I remember mentioning to my little brother about the decals and why the heck they have to be water slide decals and not just ordinary stickers. No wonder I hated the decaling process for years. Now I actually like it.

Ha, for me it was opposite.

I remember being fascinated about "water-stickers" as i called them. And i really like to decal a model. :jaw-dropping:

My first model was a Mir space station from Heller. Bought it myself when it was on discount at Toys'R'Us. It is still alive, although in bad shape and needs a repair.

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Can't remember the company, the old mand bought it for me. But it was a royal navy 1/48 Harrier. I built it with white glue in a few hours, and painted it up that same night, with a brush and humbrol navy blue. It's long since been in the trash. In fact, I only have one of my old models left, that being my TORCAN 1989 winning F-4D.

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I would say an Aurora airliner (I'm thinking the PSA 737 or Hughes Airwest DC-9) or glow-in-the-dark Godzilla, and first military I recall is the Monogram A-7 Corsair II. Weren't those days fun? I used to go to Toys R Us and they'd have stacks of those Aurora kits; wish I'd kept those monster kits, that's for sure!

I got the A-7 for Christmas and started building right away; back then it was how fast can I build it and how many bombs can I hang on it? Funnily, I've found myself picking-up those Aurora airliners when I find 'em; 35 years later!

Bob

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Mine was a big Stuka and from what i know now it must have been a 21st century 1/24 got it in venezuela while i was traveling on the family sail boat. I left it green and made jap logos with red pinkish nail polish!! i was about 10 back then!

After that when i turned 20 i build a revell p-51D in tuskegee paint scheme and ive been building various models ever since

Man this hobby is adictive

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I know my first kit was Revell's 1/100 snaptite F-15C Eagle. My dad bought one each for me and my brother at the PX at Aberdeen proving ground way back in the day.

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