Nigel.D

What was the first model you ever made ?????
mine was an Airfix f3 lightning glued very badly with Bostick believe it or not it was a complete shambles lmao

tigertc

Airfix Lancaster (dambuster). Same as Nige, glued with bostic. didnt bother painting it. If i remember correctly i must have been about 8 or nine yrs old. It ended up being blown to bits on bonfire night.

rjwood_uk

to be honest i cant actually remembe, i must have been about 5!

annoying thing is i can remember the ones my brother used to make!!!

first one i remember making was a Messchersmitt M - 262

Phoenix

first one u made was a airfix spitfire or hawker hurricane i think it was a hurricane though

glued with humbrol poly in the yellow tube


painted it then my of a sister lobbed a pile of magazines ontop of it and crushed it

for a first it wasnt bad only bad bit was on the wings when they mount to the fuz there was a small gap one side and it wasnt proper ly seated making it protrude a little on the underside

jankers

Can't really remember.
It was either a Hawker Hunter fitted with a Jet-Ex unit which didn't fly 'cos is was far too heavy (too much "dope"), or a Lysander type with rubber band drive which must have crashed 'cos I only barely remember it. Must have been about 8 at the time.

Had much better results making "soap box carts" which we called 'bogies'.
We had just the road/hill for this and, in those days, there was only One car in the whole street.

J.

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Bunkerbarge

Mine was definately an Airfix HMS Ajax.

Received as a Christmas present when I was around 6-7 and I made it on my own before my Dad got home.

I remember being particularly chuffed as the turrets turned. I don't think I painted it though. It scares the hell out of me to think that was over fourty years ago!!!

tigertc

Yo Bunk! Old git!

Bunkerbarge

Tiger, I believe the expression you are looking for is 'Mature'.

tigertc

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wonwinglo

Lots of small balsa chuck gliders made from balsa bundles.
Then a Keil Kraft Playboy rubber model which dad helped me trim out.
First plastic was a Kleeware Bell 47G helicopter which I still have,used to re-enact all of the 'Whirlybirds' TV series with it,everything from chasing cars to catching crooks ! great fun model,joined by a big Revell Sikorsky H-19 Rescue helicopter with pontoons which expanded my heli operations,that one fell apart.
First Airfix kit was the original thin winged Spitfire copied from Aurora moulds,plastic was pale blue because Airfix brought a load cheap to do the early kits.
As Bunkers says where did all of those years go to ? you youngsters will realise that too one day.

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