lets see your first model you ever built and how old were you?

My first model car 1972 Dodge Charger

The first model I built by myself was the AMT 1976 Pacer in 1976. I have no picture.

My first was a 69 Super Bee. Built about two years ago.

Wasn't that good at engine detail back then. (I still not that good) But I like it.

King

Here are the first 3 cars I built at age 9-10 years old. The red 59 mercury hdt. has many many coats of brushed paint as does the green 60 el camino. The 59 mercury conv. is not painted as I think I ran out of paint.I hope you enjoy looking at almost 50 year builds.I display these next to some of my show winners.The grandkids get a big kick out of seeing these oldies.Some day I might restore these, but for now they are memorys of my child hood modeling days. At almost 60 ,I still build almost every day after work. Thanks for looking.
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 I must apologize but my first model was done some 30+ years ago,

and I am sure met a bad fate. But I will admit I am enjoying seeing

everybody elses!!!!!! 

 The first car I remember building is the Revell 53 chevy panel wagon. It ran into a firecracker. It lost. That would have been about 1973 .Sorry no pics, I have picked up a couple from ebay to build though.

Russell 

My First Model Was A Monogram 1971 Plymouth Barracuda I Was 12. Sorry No Pics Of It It Met Its Demise A Month After I Built It.

My first model was a 1963 Chev Impala 1/32 scale by Palmer cost $1.49 a fortune for a 10 yr old I beleive it was brush painted blue & white

heres mine a '32 High Boy, I messed up the decals so I hand painted the flames on the sides

My first model car was a Revell VW beetle convertible, 20 years ago...

It is in model car heaven now....

My first model was the pickup truck from The Fall Guy.  It was terrible.  There was glue all over the windows, and since my parents didn't trust me with a hobby knife when I was 8, the rims were pushed as far into the tires as I could get them with the little rubber X's blocking the way.  Alas, it met some fireworks one Fourth of July along with much of the rest of that collection.

 I do have to say that most of the examples here are hundreds of times better than that glue bomb.  None of my models from my childhood and adolescence survived, unfortunately.

Though it is now long since history, my first model was the Revell "Chris Craft Flying Bridge Cruiser".  It was in 1959 or 1960 when I was in the third grade.  I built it myself (but did not paint it) while Dad told me what to do.  I entered it in the third grade talent contest, but was beat-out by a kid who built the same kit but "slapped" (and I DO mean slapped) the worst ever paint job on his.  I can still see that paint, brush strokes, runs and all.  I can laugh about it now, but at the time I was very disappointed.  It wasn't quite so bad when I won second place for an abstract drawing of a teddy bear.  But, I STILL remember!!!  Kasy

I'm not sure what my first model was, it could have been one of the Matchbox military kits in 1/76 or aircraft kits in 1/72 molded in two or three colors...or one of the Airfix military and aircraft kits in the same scales, they were cheap and I built lots of them back in the early 70's before I discovered car models, I don't still have them since they all have succumed to some hard playing and fallen to bits and thrown away.
The first car model I built was an AMT stock mid 70's Chevrolet Nova, it was about 1975-76 and I was about 11-12 years old.
My second car model was the AMT Ford "Hyper Hut" Van and the third was the Monogram Bad Man 55 Chevy...I don't have pics of any of them.
After that I can't really recall as I have built quite a few models since then.

Here is my first completed glue together kit.

Although the pictures are recent as the model was found in with boxes of parts I built this in 78 at the age of 7. I entered this in the WSRA (Western Street Rod Association) Western Nationals and won a 1st place and was hooked on model building. I've thought about restoring it, but decided just to clean it up and put it with my recent builds.