Memory Lane: What was your very first model kit?

[Wurger]

The most interesting thing is that all of these VEB Plasticart kits weren't of the 1/72 scale usually. Most of them was of 1/76 scale.

 

[fubar57]

Can't remember the scale or make but it was a Yak 9 in yellow plastic sometime in the early 60s.

Geo

 

[imalko]

Actually, I still have my first ever model. It's a 1/144 MiG-21. I can't recall the manufacturer nor the exact year when it was bought. I know I was somewhere around 10 year old, so it had to be sometime in the late eighties. Like many of you said, in our country too kits could be bought almost everywhere back then; newspaper booths, book shops, toy departments at grocery stores, etc.
I have built it together with my dad. We put too much glue, clear parts fogged up, no colors or varnish, just decals on bare plastic and we had tons of fun doing it together...

 

[Capt. Vick]

I have no idea what was the first kit I built was, but I did "build" a kit of the battleship Bismarck in the back of a moving van on a makeshift table my dad set up for me! I really wanted to work on it, but my dad wanted us all to go for a ride "to blow the stink off" as it were. This must have been the compromise! I must have been around 10?

 

[JKim]

I think my first model was a ship. Revell kit of the USS Arizona after my dad took me to see the movie Tora Tora Tora. This was in Virginia in the early 70's.

In those days, Revell packed their kits with brochures for a modeling club, which I joined. You got a little collection of cheezy plastic tools and a semi-regular newsletter called "Get It Together"

None of these photos are mine (found them on the net) but I specifically remember those issues of the newsletter and having this iron-on transfer.

 

[Wayne Little]

I have found a picture of me back around 1971-72 with my baby brother on the front lawn of our house, i'm holding what looks like a 1/72 B-29

 

[Airframes]

Post the pic !

 

[Wayne Little]

Post the pic !

It's in a big framed picture collage...will see....