i was just daydreamin at work today about this hobby when it hit me who was the first one to introduce this hobby to me......After hours of wasting my time at work dreaming......

i found out it was my dad, he bought me a hasegawa AH-64 and italeri F-16......funny though he's also the one discouraging me right now from continuing it.....says i got better things to do than that and i could continue this hobby when i'm older ...i reckon his thinking when i reach the age of 60 hahahaa #:-)

how bout you guys?? #:-)

I got into the hobby by mistake. Back in 83 I asked my mom to pick up a motorized toy ship which I could "sail" into a pool or something. When she returned, she brought with her a 1/700 Matchbox HMS Exeter. Needless to say, with the Elmers Glue I used on the kit it fell apart a few minutes after trying to make it float. LOL.

I still have the kit, though. I restored it completely sometime in 1997.

My father and my uncles influenced me when they would buy me model kits whenever they would come home from abroad. My dad then was on a business trip to Australia back in 1976 and he bought my this AVRO Vulcan. 2 years later, my uncle bought me my first Revell ship kits which my grandfather brought when he came home from the US.

I saw an F-16 model in National Bookstore (Not sure with the brand...I was a wide-eyed little boy then..) and thinking that it was a toy, I had it bought...

Then when I took it home, I was blowing my head off trying to put it togther. Then I finally gave up and had it placed somewhere..It was never finished..Ewan ko na kung nasaan...

Anyway, that was my first time with a model...Really got into it some years later....

Way back I figured they would make accurate-looking toys...I think I started out with the Matchbox kits.



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My dad was a modeler. Most of his kits were unpainted. He was a fan of Revell and I believe he got most of his kits from Talie (if JMN already existed 25++ years ago ) or National bookstore. When I started tearing apart some of his models he bought me a few. Nothing survived the Great Wars between me and my brother hehe. I will never forget the heady scent of Revell tube glue. Tamiya does not come close.

In atonement for my (our) sins I sent him some of my models. My Academy 1/72 Corsair and Tomcat are on display back home. I'm still looking for an affordable (ba't naman kasi Hasegawa sobrang mahal dito) B-25 solid nose because it's one of his favorite planes.

OMG, this'll be a veeerrryy long story. Consider myself a transition from collection to a serious hobby.

Bata pa lang ako mahilig na ako sa mga inaasemble na items. Noon pa lang adik ako sa mga Transformers. Kalas dito, kabit doon, ala! Eroplano na sya! After some time my dad bought me Lego toys. Naging fav ko rin to and my dad never stopped me in buying one (basta mga 500 below ha!) at sabi nya to enhance my creativity. Then naintroduce sa akin yung Zoids. Syempre bata, asa muna kay dad na paputol sa sprues and snap fit. They look good! One time noong birthday ko (mga 7-8 ata ako noon) may nagregalo sa akin ng 1/72 Italeri F-117. Syempre, nasanay sa Zoids na snap on, I cut the parts and began connecting it. Ayun nabadtrip ako at nilagay sa isang tabi. Hinahanap ko pa nga rin yon hanggang ngayon eh. By the time 9 years old na ko, naintroduce naman sa akin yung Gundam kits. Same as above, snap on without painting etc. Natutunan ko na yung real essence ng modeling nung nakilala ko yung owner ng STC Filinvest. He introduce me to Gundam markers for the panel lines. Ayun, all of my new kits were given a black panel line. Nainfluence ko rin si Lone na sumabak sa Gundam modeling and he was the one who started to use paints. Syempre, sinubukan ko rin. About last 2 years lang ako naging serious sa hobby ko. Yung first kit ko na di naman gaano kaganda is my 1/48 Airfix Sea Harrier (yep, you can see in my site the new version). Since then, I am what I am now and still growing to improve my skills, both mentally and physically.

this will be a nice thread, lalo na pag yung mga veterans na ang nag share.

Anyway, when i was a kid and still lives in proj. 3, everytime we went to cubao particularly ali-mall, i used to see those kits in STC (i didnt care for the name of that store though). I'm basically amaze for how they've done it. Before I'm really interested in military weapons/hardware. It started when my pinsan bought the whole volume of "Combat and Survival" and i used to read or browse.

Sometime in '97 i bought my first kit, a 1/35 Merkava mk1 by tamiya. Before, i dont care about paints and the stuff. All i want is to finish it quickly and see the finish un-painted kits. I think i bought around 6 kits before i lost my enthusiasm.

Then last year. It seem i fell in love again. But this time i want to take this seriously. Thanks to El-Jefe for all the help he'd given me. honestly speaking, i have yet to finish a kit. Basta, i hope you guys will help me right?

cheers to all

that's how i started din cguro i bought around 10 + kits and just assembled them but my goal ryt now is to make it all over again so it means some stashed kits + Old kits = need to buy more paints!!! #:-)

Same here....Kaya ko binili yung kit kse mas maganda yung box nya kaysa mga ordinaryong laruan....I always wondered why I don't see that much details in ordinary toys....

Noon may tendency akong i-compare yung toy sa box art/pic nya.....Then to my disappointment, I see "toy may vary from illustration on box"...

So I decided to paint it...Kso poster paint lng gamit ko noon...Isang hawak lng, tanggal na yung pintura....

Buti na lng sabi nung kaklase ko na nagmi-mini 4wd na there is such a thing as "TAMIYA ENAMEL PAINT".

Back when I was in Grade 4 this classmate of mine always told me about his kits and stuff, and he was talking about an F-14. I just watched Top Gun then, so the envious me got myself a 1:72 Hasegawa F-14 A "Atlantic Fleet Squadrons" kit. I finished it unpainted and full of thumbprints with Tamiya's liquid cement.

I still have the remnants of that kit. The original decal sheet, most of the fuselage, and the instruction booklet are still with me.

A year later my uncle bought me 4 kits: Revell's 1:500? USS MIssouri (seriously damaged and collecting dust), a Monogram 1:48 F-16 (I still have it, also collecting dust and with a broken tail), and a Monogram 1:24 Ferrari Testarosa (so thickly painted it sucks). I all finished them brush painted. I hated them finished. #:-)

If anybody could help me find another Hasegawa 1:72 F-14A Atlantic Fleet Squadrons kit, I would really really really really really appreciate it.

Here's my story:
It all started with me being naturally interested in anything miniature. Everytime we went to the mall, I always stared at architectural models & those models displayed at Lil's Megamall. My first model was given to me by my Dad. It was a mining vessel from the series, "Seaquest". Forgot about it. It's like..........lost to oblivion. Then my dad bought me a Monogram A-10 & an Academy MiG-29 a few years later, both were 1:48 & were blown to bits.
A few years later I got interested in cars so I asked for a model car. I got an Academy 1:72 BF-109 instead. I got hooked from there.
3 years ago I was then inspired by my cousin who builds tanks (the airbrush I'm using today is his). So I bought a Tamiya Leopard 1A4 w/c I didn't paint. I had about 4 kits after that w/c I didn't paint. I then lost interest because I had a newfound interest on Guns. I made a deal with my Dad about him giving me my first airsoft rifle (Crosman 1077) wherein I lost so he gave me a consolation prize of two Dragon figure kits & a couple of bottles of paint.
About a year ago I googled the search name "Scale models" & found Armorama. I started doing my "real" paint jobs afterwards until today.

Well, that's my story.

Being in the engineering/architecture field. There is a regular contact with miniature/models even when I was a student. I started with navy kits. That was a Graf Spee by Revell. I didn't paint it or anything. Then I came to Saudi Arabia. Occasionaly, I built models of buildings for our company. On the way home from work I always pass by the one of the only two existing hobby shops in Saudi Arabia. For the first 5 years I didn't even bother going inside. But in 2000 I bought a USS Missouri by Revell. 7 navy kits later I started building and painting figures. Then I started doing armor. The first one was a Tamiya Chi-ha Japanese tank painted manually with Tamiya acrylics following all the instructions on the box. Horrible result. I actually have quite a collection of armor and 1/35 figures. I still have a meter high stack of boxes of armor I bought from my visit to Germany last year. I don't know when I'm going to be able to finish those. I still suck at armor. I found that I liked doing figures a lot. The problem is they are 3-4 times more expensive than normal plastic kits.

My story.......

When I was six, my father introduced me to the hobby when he bought a1/72 scale F-105 Thunderchief. I remember that we bought it Alemars (along Quezon Ave.)and he helped me build it with the supplied glue. It was fun building and especially playing around with it. Coupled with my interest in anything military, I was hooked.

Dad steadily bought me kits till I was thirteen years old. This stopped when the family moved to the US. The built and unbuilt kits were given away to cousins and none of them survived. They were mostly 1/35th Tamiya armour kits, 1/76 and 1/32 Matchbox aircraft and ship kits. During my highschool days, I had a plastic modelling hiatus and got more interested in skateboarding, surfing, partying, and girls. Still, I continued to buy my odd issue of FSM and Military Modeler.

The hiatus continued till college but bought the odd armour and sci-fi kit. I really started building again when I came back to the Philippines in 1995. I started building 1/35th WW2 German armour. This stopped in 1997 because of the Asian financial crisis. Got really serious in trying to earn a living and start a career. In 2002, I re-started building in 1/72 because it was cheaper and a faster build.

Just like most of you guys I got started when I was a kid. Always fascinated about mechanical things, I used to buy a lot of those small snap-together toys. Then I really got started with aircraft kits from Matchbox building them OOB. Back then it was difficult to find any kind of kits in the province maybe because few or nobody buys them & there were no hobby shops too. Then my modeling was put on hold for maybe around 6 years. Then I stumbled upon a hobby store that sells RC stuff & they carry plastic kits too. I immediately got an A-10 & an M1A1 kit & that's when things started to kick in again. It would be too long if I get into the details but just to make this story short thats how I got into this hobby. The Matchbox models have long disappeared but the more recent ones still survive in my display cabinet at home there in Iloilo City. Well......story of my life.