My dad bought me the first few, and then built them for me......My first effort was a Jaguar (Circa 1972??)...Glue on fingers and canopy, and also the melted nose due too much glue (sorry...cement!)..First saw a 'Real' Jaguar some decades later...
Within a year, by age 12, had the collection of mis-scaled and mis-era 'dog-fight' from ceiling with fishing wire....Lancaster and Saturn 5 looked cool form my bed though! ...