My 10 year old daughter built the Tamiya 1/48 scale JGSDF Type 74 MBT. I got this kit for her for my IPMS club's holiday party last Friday. She built it yesterday and I helped her put together the orange wired remote control that comes with the kit. I also wired the cables to the two electric motors. The rest of the kit she assembled on her own.

The detail is pretty good for a motorized toy and she had a lot of fun building it. The decals are just peel and stick and the kit is snap together. It is very vell engineered and fits like a glove. The controller has two levers, one makes the left track go forward and back, the other does the same thing for the right track.

She liked this kit so much I told her I would post photos of it. She did not paint the kit, although I may be able to get her to paint the .50 cal and lights at a later date.

Rob
Must run in the family. Soon she'll be taking over your workshops, 1/35 and 1/1.

Hi Rob,
How old is this "Phenom" anyway? I see the apple hasn't fallen too far from the tree!

Nice work indeed!

Chuck

Great job! Hey pretty soon, she will be giving us tips on what to do.

~Chip :-)

I envy you man, I tried to get my boys interested in models and they found the Playstation to be more interesting. Maybe a grandkid will come along someday that I can entice with building. Way to go! I'll bet you're a really proud Papa!

Congrats to your Daughter on her build! And good for you Dad for getting your Daughter interested in modeling. we need young people to carry on our hobby !

Cheers,
Garry

Do you think that is very early to enlist my 10 month daughter to the hobby? Maybe i have to wait a lil ...Congrats on your lil girls effort, next should be an Academy M113 . (:-)

Nice work on the model .
Tell your Daughter great job (++) (:-)

Your daughter has talent, the apple didn't fall far from the tree!! Can't wait for my son to be old enough for models. Tell your daughter she did an outstanding job. You must be really proud of her!

Awsome Job!!!... Are those still available? If there's a Motor in it.. maybe I can get my son into it!

She's built quite a few kits, just about every snap-tite Revell-Monogram car and plane (Wheels of Fire and Wings of Fire series). She's built the Tamiya M151A2 Jeep, Revell WW2 Willys Jeep, Tamiya Panzer II, and has been working on a Kubelwagen and Pink Panther. She built one of the motorcycles that came in an old Tamiya Zundapp/BMW set. I've got those older Tamiya sets that come with horses that she wants to build as well. She's been building for several years now.

Word to the wise, start the kids off with the smaller, easier kits like the older Tamiya PzKpfw II, M3A1 Stuart, M151A2, etc. I gave her the old Tamiya PzKpfw IV Ausf. D and it had too many parts for her. She got intimidated by the amount of parts and couldn't see the forest through the trees. The smaller kits let her complete a kit in one or two evenings. We concentrate on removing sprue gates, flash and making sure the parts glue together without a lot of gaps. Nothing fancy.

The plus side is that we all have those little Tamiya Military Miniature kits lying around and they are very cheap on Ebay (Mutts go for under $5).

Congrats to your daughter Rob!!! I hope she will keep on building...
Ciao

Congrats to your daughter Sabot...glad to see there are other daughters getting involved. She seems to be pretty good at it too. Tell her to keep it up! My daughter thought it was pretty neat that there are other GIRLS doing models...

Howdy Rob,

Tell your daughter, she did some really good work on the model! Ya know, while perusing the Net for pics of something or other I stumbled across, I think it was the New England modelers society or some such, and while looking through the Chapter's gallery what do I come across? A few models with the name 'Gronovious' attached to them. If I'm not mistaken, your daughter has built more than just the one above, right? And I gotta tell ya guys, she really does good work!
My daughter Emma is 10 years old as well, and we've built a few models together. Nothing military as of yet, but at least she's still building something with me. :-) :-)
Good on ya Rob!!
I do have one suggestion though. Ask your daughter for some pointers, will ya!!

Tread. #:-)

wow she did a nice job better then me lol

Very cool, Maj G ! Your daughter did a real nice job. Good to see young kids interested in modelling. Its the future of our hobby.

Cheers !!

Robert

hey there sabot

think your daughter has doner a great job with the kit! i have 3 of my sons(11, 12, 21) that enjoy modelling and i find it hard to keep up with them!

pass on my congrats (:-)

alpha

Rob - you've got a budding young modeler in your midst. Both of you can be proud. As a parent I must say - I know the feeling when you see your child 'do what you do'.

Very nice.

Rob, she did a great job!

Man, that is so rewarding... My son is 10 and is really getting into it. We have done three or four kits together now...

The kit I am sending you is on our agenda as well..

Happy Holidays,

Scott Gentry

I just won the Tamiya Jagdpanzer Kanone on eBay for my daughter. It is from the same series and has the orange remote too. Only cost me $15+5 s/h. We will post follow up photos for that kit as well.

Jeff, thanks for the inbound Dragon Panther. I think she'll be able to build it with little problem.

outstanding job!my girls just want to play with dolls...larry