First placcy model
 

I guess it is safe to say that pretty much most of you here have at one time or another made a plastic model kit as a child.

What was it? And have you ever been lucky enough to fly it in real life?

Mine was a 1/72 Airfix FAA Seahawk. I was aged 4 apparantley, and didnt do a bad job after all of the excess glue and paint was scraped of of the lounge carpet.

Well, have you? :rolleyes:

No, it was a ship
Second was a Mosquito followed by a Westland Whirlwind (the WW2 fighter not the helo).
No to those two as well.

1/72nd scale Frog Venom FB4 in 1957.

Although my father had whetted my appetite earlier with a Douglas F-3D Skynight - I think it was from the 'Frog Comet' series?

Never flew either.

Mosquito and Spitfire. My dad was stationed at RAF El Adem in Libya. Used to put firecrackers in them, build them, light touch paper and launch them off the balcony of our flat in Tobruk. Local kids loved it. Got so enthusiastic that one day I threw the entire contents of my toytbox into the street. Could not sit down for a week. :{

My first (and last) one was a Wessex. Built most of it, then it got time to painting, and I decided it would look better in urban grey (read plastic) and so left it at that :)

Airfix Spitfire aged 6, using a whole tube of glue and lovingly painted a gopping gloss emerald green and with the decals cut out with scissors and glued on.

I did "fly" it, but it crashed and my brother ran over it on his tricycle.

My first one was a stealth fighter. It looked very authentic when I finished it, but then I put it down and could never find it again.

Mine was a battle of Britain kit in the 80's, consisting of a Lanc, a Spit and a Hurricane. Built the Lanc first, trying to use an entire tube of Humbrol's finest polystyrene cement in the process, bigger the blob better the job and all that. Seem to remember that the Lanc had aerodynamic charateristics similar to that of a house brick after it's Maiden (and only) flight from a second storey window. I think the hurricane suffered the same fate, once i'd restocked on glue that is! However I still have the Spit today.

Airfix Beaufighter, I think TF X. Not old enough even to have seen one let alone flown in one!!

I do remember it wa a complete dogs bo*****s, tailplane upside down etc and covered with gluey fingermarks, cement opaqued canopies and all. Ahh, the nostalgia of it all.

Built a TriStar many years later and spent many a happy hour in the sharp end of one of these beautiful beasts in later life, although as an Ops manager not a pilot.

Doc C

Plastic kits only came on the scene after I had made wooden 1/72 scale models of the Spitfire and Hurricane. The kit provided slightly preformed lumps of balsa wood which you had to shape with sandpaper and then glue togother. The Spitfire came out OK, but the Hurricane looked more like a Percival Prentice!

Aye - we 'ad it tough! Used to chisel at lumps o'granite wi' an old ploughshare until they looked like 't Baron's finest ornithopter.

Balsa? Looxury!!

Tell that to the kids of today......

First placcy model
 

It was so long ago I can't remember how old I was, but it was a green bakelite model which was assembled for me by a Sunderland pilot (Sgt who was billeted across the road from our house) and it was - surprise surprise, a Sunderland! I must have had some sort of indoctrination that came with it as I ended up spending my entire aviation career in the MPA world. Later, when I built my own, my favourite was a Comet (balsa and tissue paper this time) which turned out Beeeaaauutifully. I fitted the Jetex motor and did several test launches from a small hilltop and it glided perfectly. Summoned Mum and Dad to see the powered launch. Away it went,climbing slightly nose up and as it went the motor ignited the tail area which burnt fast and furiously for about 5 secs and then nosed over into a vertical dive and total destruction. My Mum regarded this as a disaster as it had cost them some ill-afforded pennies, and so she suggested that I find a less expensive hobby.
Eeeee things were hard then.
The Ancient Mariner

Mine was a Harrier GR1 circa 1972 and I've SH all me life - so it didn't work for me. I can hover for longer and higher though.

I've never made a plastic model of a child, but I did once buy a plastic model of a young lady...............:ok:

Jaguar GR something in 1972 (age 10). Never wanted to fly one though.

Saw my first 'real' one in 1991....Red Flag or something.

Airfix JU87 Stuka - No, it was on the wrong side. I also went to El Adem and saw all the bits they didn't bomb!......

Hawker Hurricane - Sadly it didn't survive my 'Pyro' phase, came a very poor second to a large French Banger i seem to recall.

Airfix kits
 

I've had a few over the years but looking back, I realised with some irony that my first model, a hand me down from my brother when I was about 4 years old, was a Jaguar. I didn't really know what it was at the time I just remember the name.
In answer to your question. Yes I have flown it. Almost daily in fact! Not today though. No jets for me!:(
BV

My first was also a Seahawk! Second was a Westland Whirlwind (not the heli) and the Mosquito came later. Also built the "Scharnhorst" which was later sunk with an air rifle.