Your first paid for model - Page 5

**cdavenport** · #41 12-30-2009, 02:51 PM

I still have mine, unbuilt, in the bag, purchased at a Squadron Shop in College Park, MD waaaay back in the late 70's, Wilhelmshaven's Scharnhorst. I have too many unbuilt, but I guess that's part of the hobby, too.

But, I, too, built the card models on the back of cereal boxes. We were a simpler lot back then. Amusement now, for children, has become a force to be reckoned with!

**Ashrunner** · #42 12-30-2009, 03:17 PM

My first paid for model was the Barn Owl. After I finished it, I sprayed it with a waterproof material and put it outside in a tree near where I fed the deer hoping it would keep the Magpies away from the deer feed.

Unfortunately, I didn't know how much Magpies disliked owls and they tore it to pieces in attacks. I can only imagine what went through their minds when the hit it the first time and ripped it open...hehehe.

**cdavenport** · #43 12-30-2009, 03:26 PM

Ashrunner, you always have the funniest doggone stories! LOL

**WVA** · #44 12-30-2009, 08:57 PM

My first bought paper model was an IPM Piper Cub that was in the sale bin at our local hobby shop...for $1.00, probalby 10 years ago. Was about three years before I got it out and built it. That led to my second - a Halenski Grumman Hellcat. Now that was a giant step in paper models! But, in spite of some setbacks, I got it built, and got hooked. Have about 30 built so far, planes, cars, buildings...but like planes best. One of these days I'm going to finish one of the several I have attempted to design myself.

**SJPONeill** · #45 12-30-2009, 09:25 PM

Hobby Model Tu-160 in 1/33, October 2008...followed by a number of much more conservatively sized models...

**papermodelfan** · #46 12-31-2009, 12:23 AM

With my own money! That would be the WHV Focke Wulf 190, that I bought from John Hathaway. I remember it vividly, as it arrived just before I went to summer camp, and I took it with me and built it there on a rainy day. I was in the 6th grade, so that would have been 1964. It survived camp, and came home intact; the first of many WHV models that I filled the ceiling of my room with as I switched from plastic to paper. Getting the little Hatheway catalogue was like a trip to the hobby store, only the prices were affordable. .

**KCStephens** · #47 12-31-2009, 10:11 AM

GPM Panzer 4-H -still not built

**gomidefilho** · #48 01-01-2010, 03:32 PM

My first buy's is in a De Wayne Shop many Marek's in 1/50 and Prudenziatti models in 1/72 in 2005... My first printed model is a Breguet XIX from old Maly Modelarz magazine I'm buy in used book shop in São Paulo in 1998. I have many many magazines, My wife fights with me every time I get a new envelope of the United States of America or Eastern Europe ...