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Post by skulldude on Apr 23, 2011 10:04:25 GMT -6
Heres a thread for all of us to "brag". When did you start modeling?
I started when I was 8. Granted they werent works of art but, they were builds. Now Im 47 and still building away!
Im still learning and try to make each build a little better than the last.
So tell us....When did you start???
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Post by BronxRumble5 on Apr 23, 2011 12:40:01 GMT -6
12 or 13, I think (a little over 20 years ago). I had done a couple snap-tites here and there before that, but that's when I made my first glue kit. I had a lot to learn about patience, and letting the glue / paint dry before messing around with things...
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Post by Joe Stoy on Apr 23, 2011 13:12:18 GMT -6
I think i was about 8, withmy dad in the miltary, it was mostely airplanes.
the first hotrod was in the early 70's, i think it was the Red Baron.
Joe
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Post by db1995 on Apr 23, 2011 14:22:59 GMT -6
me was 8 6 years ago the badman ll
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Post by badroadahead on Apr 23, 2011 14:49:16 GMT -6
My first model was the Apollo Lunar Lander in 1969, I was 12. I got it from an offer in a National Geographic magazine. Then my parents bought my brother a gorilla model and me an elephant model.......then I discovered Tom Daniel......and that was it!
Dave
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Post by mykturk on Apr 23, 2011 14:52:10 GMT -6
I was 4 or maybe 5 when I got to glue a simple model airplane together. After I'd proved I could do it to my mom and dad, I was alowed to build a more "complex' model car. My older (8 years) brother liked the 'Gangbusters' kits when they first came out and I had been watching him build those when I said I wanted to also. My dad was the one who declared I had to start with planes, I'm not sure why, I didn't love planes and nether did he... Anyway, that was the start of a lifelong love of styrene!
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Post by chromecop on Apr 23, 2011 15:20:57 GMT -6
Started at the age of 7 , 1970 that was.....
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Post by plastimatic on Apr 23, 2011 16:04:00 GMT -6
Must have been 9 or 10 (yeah, around 1968). I think the first one was one of those Navy ships with the electric motor in it. I remember it cruising around our 3 foot deep pool before it listed and sank. There was a local market/store nearby that had kits that always seemed to be missing pieces.
My first self-launched purchases were some Palmers (a Mustang?) from a neighborhood drugstore (never could get those body side panels to line up and stay!)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2011 16:34:31 GMT -6
I was 5. I was into model trains (still am) but the move to So Cal and everyone else was building model cars.....
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Post by francis on Apr 23, 2011 17:09:17 GMT -6
l started when my dad got me the monogram 30 tourer
l think it was in 75
l have always wanted to rebuild but thought it would be better just to leave it alone
and just build another 30 instead
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Post by Dennis M on Apr 23, 2011 17:28:05 GMT -6
I started modeling when I was five' my first model was a corvette with a clear top if I remember right. that was back in 1963 1964. I built the visible engine & chassis' then a couple of years later blew it apart with a b.b. gun. I can still kick myself in the butt for that one. Have a Happy Easter. Dennis
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Post by Koolkat on Apr 23, 2011 21:11:50 GMT -6
I was about 6 or 7. Started with airplanes, plastic and wood ones then ships and tanks and Hudson Miniatures, Ace, and Revell Highway Pioneers. The first decent car kits I built were the Club de Mer and Futura.
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Post by rustybill1960 on Apr 23, 2011 22:10:33 GMT -6
 WOW !! First started . . . . . around six or seven, used to spend my summer with my Grandma My Auntie would take us to Galion to the Rexell Drug Store and get me 1/32 scale kits to build. around eight or nine my Dad and Mom would take us kids to the Zayers in Mansfield for model kits, I believe the first "adult" kit was Tom Daniels "Bad Medicine." then at ten, We moved to Pa. and I got into the MPC and Revell kits that lasted a year or two then it was 1/72 Military and HO trains.  about five years ago, I got back into building, of the five hundred plus, I have about one hundred (+ or -) finished.
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Post by Bert on Apr 23, 2011 22:18:29 GMT -6
I was six and recovering from a tonsillectomy. I got a Ton Daniel 1/32 Pinto Funny Car. I think it was the Pinto, it may have been the Mustang II F/C ;D I quit building in 9th grade when I bought my 1:1 67 Mustang coupe. I cranked back up around 1999-2000.
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Post by kettlekettle on Apr 23, 2011 23:39:09 GMT -6
My uncle started buying me models every christmas since i was about 8 .
I started using my allowance after that the buy models as i could get the money to buy them.
I guess ive been building off and on over 30 yrs.... Im still learning and still enjoy building ... Guess its a good thing to strart young and being creative.
So now when i see kids and parents in hobby stores... it bring back the memories of my days buying and building my first model.
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Post by Psychotic Hillbilly on Apr 24, 2011 3:42:49 GMT -6
I started when I was 10 years old. My Dad had always built models. When I turned 10 he would take us to Toys "R" Us and we would pick out a model every week. I think my first builds were the Lil Coffin and Boot Hill. That was 28 years ago. 1983......  Ken... |
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Post by davea on Apr 24, 2011 13:59:15 GMT -6
Man, that was a while ago! My brother was 4 and 1/2 years older than me, I was just doing what he was doing! I was about 5, 1962; and really dug into it starting '64-'65.
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Post by 4speed on Apr 24, 2011 15:13:40 GMT -6
I started around 8 yrs old in 1965… Oh..man along time ago!!…back when you could buy kits just about anywhere… drug stores, department stores,..anywhere that had a toy department… first models were the figure kits Aurora monster stuff Frankenstein ,Wolfman ,Mummy,Drac, then Ratfink - Roth stuff..anything with a monster based theme I had to have em!! I just loved looking at the box art … wished I still had them first ones!! Hot Rods, Dragsters and Showcars came later on!!..This site started me building again in 2009. Seeing everybodys builds and ideas is very inspiring… I’m going on 54yrs old now.. its woke up this old hobby out of hibernation!!..it’s makes me feel like a kid again!! Thanks to Everyone!!!
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Post by Starry Eyes on Apr 24, 2011 15:45:02 GMT -6
As far as I can remember I was about 8-9 .. my cousin was a model builder and I can STILL smell that lacquer paint in the little bottles... AAAAHHHHHHHHHH... man between that and "good" model glue .. huh? oh .. yeah .. like I said I was 8 or 9 and all I knew was it looked like a lot of fun to paint and glue those little cars together .. here I am 48 years later still doing the same thing...
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Post by bugaboo on Apr 24, 2011 16:15:01 GMT -6
I started when I was 7, and that was in 1970. At first I built planes and battleships, but at some point I got the ´55 Chevy street machine from Monogram (the black flamed high rider), and I was hooked to the american cars. Then I discovered Tom Daniels.... Been into showrods eversince, and still is....
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Post by redbaron on Apr 24, 2011 16:51:21 GMT -6
I built my first kit when I was 4. But I didn't really get into building model kits until I was around 13. like so many others I started with show rods. but branched out to other kits as I got more into the hobby.
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Post by donculley on Apr 24, 2011 17:10:14 GMT -6
I started building aaround 1969 -1970 ,when I was about 8 or 9 years old. I remember building ( and only in the sense of the word) a Rommels Rod and then a Moon Mixer . Some other early ones were a 1971 Monte Carlo and a 70 Hornet funny car. Later on my mom signed me up for the model of the month club and I got all sorts of kits, which was cool because I couldn't afford t get then at the store , but you never knew what you would get from month to month. Usually it was some old leftover Aurora kits, but I did get a Deals Wheels Van once. Some of the kits I built are still covered in dust in my parents basement !
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Post by bronzegiant on Apr 24, 2011 17:38:43 GMT -6
I started, probably, when I was, I'm gonna say, 7 or 8 which would have been 1966-67. My first kit was an Aurora F4-D Skyray airplane, one of the ones with the decal outlines molded onto the surfaces of the kit. My first car kit was the Monogram Slingshot Dragster. That was a Christmas present. Plus there were all of the long-box Aurora Monsters and the like. Mose were bought at a Haag Drug Store nearby, it's a CVS now, that had a GREAT hobby department even including a slot racing track, I don't remember if it was 1/24th or 1/32nd (probably this scale). This was fantastic in a DRUG store!
I wanna go back!!
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Post by Manic Modeler on Apr 24, 2011 17:49:19 GMT -6
My first memory of a model was of an open wheel racer. It was one that came in the low flat boxes. This was about 1964 when I was 4 or maybe 5 years old. I am sure it was one of my older brother's models. I remember wanting to build it but there was no glue. I ran around the house looking for something I could substitute for glue. I tried mashing up some crayons but it didn't work. Go figure.
My next memory was several years later when I was about 8. My older brother had built the "Pie Wagon". This was when you could buy models and paint from the 7-11 store. Boy, those were the days. The first model I remember buying for myself was the "Dragon Wagon"! This is why that model has been so special to me all these years. I was 8 and this model was absolutely COOL! Are you kidding me, big fat tires, super smooth looking engine, round windshield and a dragon. Tom Daniel knew what he was doing when he created that one...what a classic. I remember building it in my back yard, probably in one day. I wish I could see it now. It had to have been an absolute crap fest. I am sure it suffered the fate of so many other models...lighter fluid and firecrackers.
Of course I finally decided to spend big bucks for a crappy already built one that I restored to my satisfaction. I am most proud of that model. Within 6 months the re-issue came out!! I now own four of them still in boxes. Why? Because I can!
mike
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Post by barten on Apr 25, 2011 9:28:37 GMT -6
It started watching my brother building the monster builds that were just re-released. But hen I got a hold of a TD kit. . .and it was all over. I had a bunch of kits saved as I went off to college. . .. and they were gone when I came home.
Yea.
I got into the AFX race cars too. . . . for a long time.
Gotta love a custom WILD SHOWROD! ! ! ! ! No mater what scale.
God Bless
Dan
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Post by Dennis M on Apr 25, 2011 9:45:31 GMT -6
I remember the afx cars' my buddies & me used to race every day. Good memories. Dennis
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Post by mrtc4w on Apr 27, 2011 5:41:22 GMT -6
I don't remember the year or how old I was. I was into building military models. Then one day my older brother built the AMT '49 Ford and painted it that new color, Kandy Apple Red  That was all it took. Several mock battles and firecrackers later all the miltary stuff was gone! The model cars started an obsession with cars. Someday I may get over it...NOT!!! Marty Marysville, OH |
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Post by mrtc4w on Apr 28, 2011 5:17:50 GMT -6
I got into the AFX race cars too. . . . for a long time. Gotta love a custom WILD SHOWROD! ! ! ! ! No mater what scale. God Bless Dan I'm still into slot cars, all scales. Shortly after I started building model cars, I got an Aurora Thunderjet 500 set. Still playin' with 'em! Marty Marysville, OH |
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Post by showrodjohn on Apr 28, 2011 5:42:37 GMT -6
About 10 I built Badman first then a few more but after that the railroad bug hit they moved and we lived near a rail yard. But I always loved show rods and drew them a lot as a kid.
About 5 years ago got into the hobby again and I love it.
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Post by noodles on Apr 28, 2011 8:15:21 GMT -6
Probably about 8 or 9. I can remember building a 1957 Chev on a Christmas morning. That would be around 1962-3. No paint, glue bomb and no worries! I was hooked. I still remember my Mom taking me to $1.49 day Tuesday at Woodwards department store in New Westminster and i'd sit on the floor in front of the models and take an hour to figure out which one i could buy.
Rick.
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That was all it took. Several mock battles and firecrackers later all the miltary stuff was gone! The model cars started an obsession with cars. Someday I may get over it...NOT!!!
