What was your first model kit? Largest model?

Can't remember for sure but, I believe it was a Spad XIII. Eddie Rickenbacker you know.
1/72 for sure

 

Lol! I never thought about that angle.
Looking at all your posts, I decided to check all my old stuff and I found that I still have three kits, a P-38 Lightning 1/72 scale Revell, a snap-on kit SR-71 Blackbird from Monogram, and a Tamiya Missouri kit still unassembled! I still have to double check if all the parts are still intact after all these years.

 

My first-A German Gun Battery from a D-Day set
Largest-1/32 scale Mk III Crusader (I like to stick to small)

 

First model? I have no idea. I probably built my first model in the early 60's. Largest? Probably wasn't a kit but one of the scratch built ships I have done. Those are typically 1/200 to 1/350 in scale (occasionally larger) and could be up to about four feet long.
The last one was about three feet long and was the USS Rendova. Made that one for a retiring judge that had served many years ago on her.

 

Well i know this ain't wwii related but i am doing a Warhammer 40,000 chapter and i am theming it on the LSSAH so far i have completed one squad and halfway into the next squad, i think it will take me about three to four years to complete this task.

 

This was "my" first model...and at two and a half years old I really tore the shit out of it after my dad spent many long months detailing and constructing it.

 

I can not find any of my "real" first(s). I remember fictional space ship kits. One was a sectional model with a command section attached to a main unit that had a box shaped treaded crawler underneath and a fighter piggyback. It was all white with red highlights. Anyone ever see anything remote? I also liked some kits that had city backdrops with people and cars running from a giant bug (ant, spider, etc.) that you put together. These kits were from the 70's I'm sure. Also were really weired looking 50's space stations/ships.

 

I can't remember which was my first but, both were by Revell. One was a 3-ft long model of the German Battleship: "Tirpitz. It took all Summer long for me to build it. Shit, it took forever to mount all the fragging machineguns on it.

The other - which could have been my first, was a 1 3/5th scale of Richthoffens Tri-Plane.

The Tirpitz met it's demise from: Death by Pellet Gun.

The Red Baron's Fokker Tri-Plane, met it's end after I had tied two strands of kite string to the wing supports, went across the street to the front yard of the Lutheran Church. Once there, I proceded to ""Fly"" that Fokker, by letting out the strands of sting to about 50 feet and whirling about in a circle till I was dizzy and unknowingly made my way near the Brick and Cement - Spire - where the Fokker smashed into said Spire, and splattered into about 50 pieces.

Like Miguel, I too used to use fire crackers on some other models I used to have.

 

1 3/5th scale. Not only does he not do fractions and can't spell, he also destroys his toys. Typical Republican ! :jointroll:

 

He is from Texas, & I hear they build their models BIG there .

I don't quite trust anyone who didn't at some point subject their kits to airguns and bangers, fair few went up that way as recently as last new years eve .

 

Blowing up models of tanks and airplanes is a sign of normalcy in any American kid. It's when those kids are blowing apart frogs, turtles, and even cats and dogs with fireworks that things are going too far.

 

Did the same thing, with army men too. Rocks, BB's, pellets, 22's Bottle rockets, fire crackers, M-80/Cherry Bombs (back when the biggest obstacle to getting them was being able to come up with the money), Spray cans of volatile substances (hair spray/paint, WD ) made good flame throwers as well.
Ones that floated could be sunk by pressing clay around the M-80/cherry bomb and sticking BB's to it, then it would sink underneath it (in shallow water/6 " deep), blow up and dramatically sink (Tirpitz style) the vessel. Which could then be re-floated/repaired for rounds 2-3-4.
Bottle rockets make good torpedo's (if you wait till the main engine lites first), set in water on course to target, and they streak straight to the boat and blow up against it. They do no damage, but it looks cool. I think I discovered how Hollywood made...In Harms Way. Everyone I knew did this.

 

Speaking of plastic Army men-I found a box full in my Garage, then I just went and made a big plastic bonfire! It's quite funny to set the end of the gun alight and watch it burn down to the head, the body, than it will collapse and turn into a puddle of molten plastic.

 

My first was a set from Dragon. 7,5cm PAK40. Only been modelling for a year so im still long way from a expert. But all the hint and tricks post is helping me a little on the way So thanks to they that post them...

Stian

 

My first model kit was the battleship Bismarck ; it was great experience which teachs me a lot of tricks. My largest model kit was instead the aircraft carrier Foch. I think that large model are more detailed than the small ones but it's not possible to stuff my home with these giant models.

 

A Japanese Zero.

 

An old Aurora kit - either the irridescent green "MiG whatever" or the small (1/144 ?) B-17. I was about 4 or 5 at the time, but that was all it took. Largest was probably Renwal's "Visible Head" - now that was a scary kit, life-size face staring at me all night.

 

my first kits were junk kits that my stepfather screwed up on and gave to me, usually 1/76 NITTO diorama armor, i never had a new unopened kit, but i did the best i could with them. i think i was eight in '72. thanks to ebay i am filling all those gaps with kits i could never get new that were'nt messed up by the stepfather

 

Argh! Reading your reply made me remember that I did the same thing too. As a kid, I used a very small firecracker (about an inch long) on a Revell B-24 Liberator bomber in an attempt to make it look like it survived ack-ack. Unfortunately, I blew it up instead! I could only recover the wings, part of the fuselage, and bits of the cockpit. After that, I settled on just using BB's on my metal tank replicas.