My son just turned 16 and finially built his "first model". By the time I was his age I had built dozens of aircraft. But then again, there was no computers, internet, video games, cell phones etc.... when I was 16 (that was back in 1976!!)

For his first kit I got him the Taymia T-62. I know how incorrect and out of scale it is but I wanted an inexpensive kit that would go together with minimal effort. The only thing I really helped with was getting the rubber band track on and close supervision with the airbrush.

Nice story and good work!
As I remember correctly, I´ve built my first kits in 1988 at the age of 11.
Most of them where left unpainted, but applied with the decals.
Some of them were painted using the provided (in the kit were glue and paint)
colors, but this was an "ugly" job.
Today I would compare the type of colors with enamel-colors.

greetings...
Soeren

Your son deserves credit for a very well applied paint finish, and what looks to be a cleanly built model. Well done.

wow, good job. alot better than my first model. I have my 7 year old brother in law working on his second model. He loved the 1st one, a star wars space ship. Keep up the good work guys

Looks pretty good to me. Tell your son he did a fine job. What is it, a Syrian?

Great job! That kit was one of my first kits after I really got serious with my modeling--fond memories there! Your son did an excellent job with an excellent kit, and I have to give him credit for the camouflage scheme. I made mine just a flat Soviet green, as I hadn't invested in an airbrush when I built my T-62. Keep up the great work!

That looks Syrian.
Fantastic paint job.

john

Wonderful to see youth introduced to a worthwhile pursuit. Keep up the good work!

Great work keep it up I wish my first one look that good
Dave

This is awesome! I'm wondering if we should have a sub-section on here for young modelers, maybe something like "Keepers of the Flame" or something?

He did very well. It shows he paid quite a bit of attention to the details.

He done good

G

He did a very good job, it looks really nice. Welcome him to the hobby for us will you?

cheers;

Bob

great job, nothing I did when I was that age look like that.

That really looks good,great camo job.Hope he keeps up with it

Really good first job: Nice clean & tidy build, paint job neatly applied. He should stick with it.

Tracks need painting more of a "track colour" though.

- Steve

Wow, an amazing job! I wish my first model looked like that! Keep up the good work and welcome to the hobby

Sean

Greetings,

Robert Jr. read all of the positive comments and is impressed!!!! Not only were your comment so kind, but helped as a confidence builder for him. I think we all know what is was like at that age; it's is the time to define who/what we will be as adults.

Regards,
Rob

Hi Bob and Son

Having just introduced my two girls to modelling over these lasttwo weeks of summer holidays I know the fun this brings. Hope your son keeps the interest in between looking for future college, job hunting, dating and other life factors at his age.

He has done great work there and hope he sees the future of constructing more models from his or your stash.

Thanks for sharing

Nige

his first model looks great!
hope he stays in the hobby!
i remember my first kit when i was 15 mother got it me for my birthday
it was the airfix harrier gr mk 7 and now im 21 with quite alot of tanks

tell him great job hes done there!

tony