Gents,
do you remember the first tank you built?? Mine was a 1/35 Tamiya King Tiger, with motor, that I asked my dad to buy when I was 14 or so and saw it in a toyshop window. I do remeber the kit was very bad, with few parts and ugly rubber tracks. And I painted it with glossy paints in a crazy camo pattern. But I was transfixed by its beauty and got the virus forever…
Merry Xmas from Spain.
Alvaro.
early sixties, 1/48 scale Panther, Sherman and T34
Oh yes. Monogram’s Panzer IV in 1/32 scale. Built it in one night. I did a lousy job of cleaning pieces and did not paint it. I still thought it was very good at the time.
Tamiya m551 sheridan.Way back in the early 70’s.
C.
Bandai 1/48 Tiger II.
Still got the li’l sucker, too!
If i can rember that far back! it must have been Airfix something in 1/72 in the early 70’s. it took a few years before i found tamiya 1/35!
It may have been a Churchill
…early 60’s …a panther…from aurora…i painted it with a purple magic marker…purle over grey…could be a trend…jeffl
Like Dave, mine must have been an Airfix kit… I built most of their catalogue at one time or another… As to the exact model, I do not remember, but I know I had at a time several Shermans in my ‘collection’…
First tank I owned was Monogram’s 1/35 scale M48A2 Patton tank. Dad built it for me. First tank I built by myself was the 1/48 scale Aurora MBT-70 with working suspension and vacuformed base. I still have that kit.
1/76th Matchbox Comet. That was a nice tank. I remember using hardware paint on that kit. It ended up all glossy and green.
Can’t really remember what the first tank was … 1/72 or 1/76 something or other.
But I do remember what my first 1/35 armour kit was … Tamiya’s Sd.Kfz.232.
Still have it one the shelf today … it’s been redone a couple of times since but always deserves a place on the shelf.
It was the start of the armour bug for me … nothing but since that day.
An Aurora T-34 way back about 20 minutes after the passing of the dinosaurs.
Academy M1A1about ten years ago. Hand painted the camo & repainted it dark yellow a year ago & also got a base for it.
Hasegawa 1/72 M3 Grant. very bad job on it, it now graces the spares box.
Monogram pzkw IV in about 1971. Painted in tan plastic, gloss brown and gloss metallic green, all from my dads body shop. I thought it was the best thing i had ever done and it did look better that a friends Revell sherman.
A Lee 1/35 M2 Bradley about 5 months ago. First thing I ever tried weathering. Then I bought a Tamiya kit and really got hooked.
Italeri’s panzer 1 straight from the box. Not a bad little kit!
My first tank that I remember, I think it was a Tiger. All I really remember was it molded in tan, came with a diorama molded base, had little springs on the suspension, and was big for me at the time ( I was 9 and I think it was 1/35 ). I didn’t actually build it. The working suspension was just to much for me.
The first tank that I did build was a couple years later. A 1/72 panzer IV painted it my own custom color real close to OD. I was very proud of that tank.
5 years and about 5 months ago, I built a tamiya Sherman, worked very well, but I didnot put one drop of paint on, and had some terrible glue stains, but I got the bug after that and abandoned my ships in favor of armor, besides that they are much easier to store.
1/35 Dragon M4A4 with indy tracks and a bad transmission cover fit.
How can I forget?