My Grandsons first finished Model

[Leopard2]

Well actually he is my son's 9 year old stepson Tommie. Anyway, after seeing my stash last year he he wanted to build a model real bad. He had is sight already on a Italeri 1/48 Tornado F3. I took me a while to convince that it would e a little out of his league. So he said that he wanted to build a large model of the Titanic. Again a lot of convincing had to take place to make him rethink.So I got him the Revell 1/72 Snap-Tite F-18 Blue Angels. What a waste of money and time. Next I gave him for X-Mas a 1/72 Airfix Harrier starter kits that come with paint and a brush. Was a little out of his league and he lost interest very quickly. THen recently when he was over he wanted to build something and I remembered that I had a Hobyboss 1/72 Yak-3 Easy Kit in the stash so I gave that to him. Well here is the result. And btw, Santa found out about this and put 2 more easy kits on lay-away for Tommie.

Joe

PS: He also already got acquainted with the carpet monster

 

[Iron Mike]

Durn carpet monster! Rock on, Tommie!

 

[MrT]

great job!!!

 

[moon puppy]

Way to go Tommie, looking forward to your next build

 

[Tankbuilder]

Hopefullt this will be the beginning of a long interest.

When I first tarted building kits, over 50 years ago, I really like it when Tamiya models became available because the gace a good overview of the history of the item I was building the model. That interest in turn lead to a lifelong history in general.

Cheers

 

[jknaus]

Cool stuff
James

 

[Paulw]

 

[Leopard2]

Thanks all, he was pretty excited when he got it finished.

 

[nerdling]

I remember those days of spending an afternoon gluing a kit together and then painting it. Here's hoping to a future lifelong model builder.

 

[Tojo72]

Way cool,congrats on your first,save it.

 

[Dusan]

Very very cool!!! :drinks


BTW: My first model was not painted at all! and was assembled with the wrong glue. :laugh:

All the best!
Dusan.

 

[Sherman 18]

Way to go Tommie!

 

[Arturius]

Very good Tommie!
Keep charging!

 

[Duke Maddog]

Right on Tommie! He did better than I did at that age! Keep building man!

 

[Sharkmouth]

Nice to see new modelers!

Regards,

 

[SA Dave]

My son just saw this and asked me when we are going to build his plane

Its great to see the young starting to build