What was your first model kit? Largest model?

Thusfar, I've only built four Revell aircraft models that I really like; a F4U Corsair, A6M5 Zero, Fokker F27 and a B-29.

 

I hesitate between the Prinz Eugen, or was it the HMS Aurora?

 

airfix hudson and hms victory.dad used to make tanks out of woodbine ciggarette packets and keeled yacht type frigates from chicken bones a hobby he got on corvet mess decks. they were first ones iwas taught to make.

 

My very first model was one very similar to the one I'll post an attachment to, a Piper Cub my Dad helped me build when I was about 10. He had just traded off the last of three (3) Cubs he had owned, it was the Super Cub, and gotten a used Tri-Pacer in blue and white. He had allowed me to fly the Cub, but it was years before he allowed me the same chance on the Tri-Pacer, and I never was allowed to take off or land that bugger. Had a nasty ground looping tendency.

After the balsa and tissue paper Cub (rubber band power), that I painted in the color of his (more yellow with just a blue and white stripe) in 1959, I built a number of other planes, some powered, some static. I then went into model cars, where I stayed with the exception of one other "aerobatic" gas-engine powered plane I did construct. It was nearly all wing, and I promptly crashed it into the roof of our garage while showing off. Never did repair the thing.

I only built one ship, a Revell version of the USS Missouri after I had visited the real deal at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair over at the Bremerton "moth ball" fleet. The USN had opened up a section of the "Mighty Mo" for the fair times, and I toured the limited area opened for the time.

 

I remember mine. My dad bought it for me right after we moved into our new home back in 1966. This is the model that hooked me into the hobby.

I think I picked this model out because of my fascination with the TV show "The Rat Patrol".

I also remember disposing of this model around 1975 with my then new BB gun, and I would play anti-tank gun and take pot shots at it till it was shattered.

I recently bought this kit (original model) and was considering building it again. But now I will just put the box on a shelf where I can look at it from time to time.

 

thats the fate of my models a 22 pellet wracked dozens apart.

 

Don't remember my first model, could have been Airfix but also possibly a 1/1200 waterline Warspite somewhere around the early sixties. I do remember with horror the Airfix Camel, did anybody ever manage to glue all those struts right (I spoiled at least 3 examples at different times without any success, no mini drills or helping hands at the time !!.
Largest must have been a 1/24 Spitfire but nothing ever came close to my father's 20+ square meters Marklin scale model railway.

Most of the early models ended up in a bang after being stuffed with fireworks.

 

I think my first one was the 38t Panzer that I still have. Can`t really remember after 30+ years..... I know the Me 109`s & FW 190`s had an unfortunate encounter with anti-aircraft fire one day. (Mom was p.o.ed when she saw the bb holes in the ceiling) I think my Zundapp and rider met their demise by firecrackers.

 

Many of my model ships met their fates at our local pond with a fire cracker.

 

back in the 50s! if memory serves me well! a jap zero,as I thought they were cool,a really good design fighter..ray..

 

your not my brother? we used our mums hair spray.. ark royal took about two minutes the bismark three..sneaky these germans..

 

First model was a glouster gladiater circa 1980,bi-planes and helicopters arent exactly beginner friendly.

Biggest i think was a 1/32(or 1/24) b29,only model i ever attatched lights to.

 

My first model was a Tamiya 1/48 Focke Wulf 190

My biggest was of a floatable battleship Yamato complete with a motor. I forgot the scale but it was quite large. Unfortunately I never got around to finishing it. Think I'll buy another one and work on that someday.

 

My first model was a Tamiya 1/35 Tiger- Early Production

Biggest was a floatable H.M.S. Dreadnought. Sorry I forgot the scale

 

First was a Spitfire Mk. IX I got when I was 7 I think it was 1/100 scale of something like that, definitely smaller than 1:72.

My largest model I built was with my grandfather around the same time, a Memphis Belle in about 1:45 scale :O THAT was quite a build, although the finished product looks nothing like the real thing I'll get some pictures up of the latter, I don't know if I still have that old Spit anywhere...

 

My first model is the Monogram Quarter Inch Scale (1/48th) Messerschmitt (BF) Me-109 that Gromit801 displayed above. My largest was a 1/25th scale Fokker DVII by a company I don't remember.

 

most of the model aircraft back then were airfix or revel,and these were the ones I bought usually,the old gluing was a big problem then,messy,not like todays fixatives..

 

As far as I remember, my first kit was an Airfix F-111 in 1/72. Some Matchbox kits followed - the Mirage (we read the French Mick Tanguy Comics at this time) and others, and many little tanks from Airfix and Matchbox in 1/76, and also the Coastal Defense Battery. My first effort with paint must have been the Airfix Do-17. I remember also a Buffalo and a Curtiss Hawk in Dutch East India Markings. Some day I went over to tanks in 1/35. The first ones were a Stuart and a StuG III from Tamiya. My latest projects are the Hotchkiss variants from Trumpeter, the Italeri Tiger I, a StuG IV (my fist try with Zimmerit coating), and I plan to build a Sherman M4A1 (76mm) with British or Polish markings. My greatest models are the Tamiya PBR (which is not correct insofar as the commander wears a beret in the style we use today, but the Brown Water Navy wore Vietnamese berets, French style, with the badge on the right side and not on the left) and the Italeri long-barreled M-107 - in fictitious Vietnam markings, with the inscription "Peace Talk" on the gun barrel.

 

My first model kit was a 25 pounder feild gun and quad but it was a disaster

 

My first model is an A6M2 Zero I downloaded from a website. Currently I'm working on a model of the USS Intrepid in 1:400 scale