What was your first kit?

[MICHAELs TopForce17 586]

Don’t have it anymore but it was a king blackfoot.

[TwistedxSlayer 1290]

My TB01 from 2000, its had plenty of spares and upgrades along the way and this is how it currently stands.

 

[Cynan 520]

As a kid money was tight and second hand was the only way I could get my hands on a Tamiya, and I count myself fortune it was a HS2. It came with a Futaba Magnum Junior, a spare crystal and a tub of spares.

The gentleman who sold it me also gave me a copy of a guide book with the Avante on the front. I still have that now though sadly not the car.

Many a night I drooled over that guide book reading it cover to cover, desperately wishing that someday I’d be able to get a Technigold and another Futaba transmitter with more dials - because more meant better right 😂 

Something I’d either forgotten or only just noticed but on the back of the guide book it it’s written “Hobbin, Model, Portland St”.

Anyhow when I got back into the hobby the choice was clear to me - an Avenue re-release. My first kit build from new.

[moffman 5752]

My first ever rc car was a Porsche looking thing called a R101 can't remember the manufacturer and it was rubbish even back in the 70s but looking back it was probably the absolute rubbish batteries that you could only get back then? 

But my first "real" rc car was the tamiya Ford ranger when it first appeared in late 70s or definitely early 80s from Beattie's of Newcastle they also had another shop in eldon square called modelworld they did this thing called a Beattie's deal I don't think it was any cheaper than buying all the stuff you needed individually but you got a haul bag (blue and white in my case) as the sweetener with the deal my parents (God rest their soul) we weren't rich by any means quite the opposite actually but they did all the overtime and saved every penny to get me that rc truck and I loved and raced that truck to an inch of its life! Finally retiring it to be replaced by the boomerang which by then I had numerous before and after school jobs to save up and buy said boomerang!

[Busdriver 6209]

On 2/25/2023 at 3:33 PM, moffman said:

My first ever rc car was a Porsche looking thing called a R101 can't remember the manufacturer and it was rubbish even back in the 70s but looking back it was probably the absolute rubbish batteries that you could only get back then? 

But my first "real" rc car was the tamiya Ford ranger when it first appeared in late 70s or definitely early 80s from Beattie's of Newcastle they also had another shop in eldon square called modelworld they did this thing called a Beattie's deal I don't think it was any cheaper than buying all the stuff you needed individually but you got a haul bag (blue and white in my case) as the sweetener with the deal my parents (God rest their soul) we weren't rich by any means quite the opposite actually but they did all the overtime and saved every penny to get me that rc truck and I loved and raced that truck to an inch of its life! Finally retiring it to be replaced by the boomerang which by then I had numerous before and after school jobs to save up and buy said boomerang!

Seems like many of us lost our virginity in a Beatties store!!!

 

edit: I do mean rc virginity 😊

[moffman 5752]

19 hours ago, Busdriver said:

Seems like many of us lost our virginity in a Beatties store!!!

I think it was the instore video and the yellow fronted shop window especially in the winter when everything was gloomy and this shop was so bright and inviting then when you came in the tamiya rc video was in the centre of the shop.......brilliant times that the generation now and the future will never get to experience

[Andreas W 1555]

I never had a Tamiya as a youngster. The first RC I got was a Nikko Malibu. Later I got a Nikko Dictator and then it really began. I still have them both and they are working as near as that all four wheel adapters on the Dictator are cracked. I ran it last year, but now it needs the TL-01 axle mod. 

 

The first kit I got was this Burns DX 4WD. I was fed up with the constant running to charge the 1200 mah NiCad. Even with an automotive charger it was much running for little driving. After I tried the Yankee Europa Racing of I classmate it was done. It had to be an 1:8 glowbuggy. It was so facinating to have so much revs and power and I remember it was exhausting to run it, even randomly around a schoolyard or a football pitch. I still have it as well, but I have not run it for at least 15 years. It was working fine then,  but I took out the radiogear to mount it in the Grasshornet when I got that in 2020. If I am going to run it again it would definately not be with the vintage (but working) Sanwa 27 MHz gear from 1992.

It's not hard to unterstand why I like the Turbo Optima so much. 

[alvinlwh 5895]

On 2/22/2023 at 10:00 AM, Gebbly said:

What was your first kit

Here is a different type of answer.

My very first kit was not an RC but Tamiya WL.D034. (go look it up 😁) Dad got it for me when I was 4 or 5 and it was my first ever serious model kit. Before that was those snap together kits with sweets.

Did not get my first RC kit until I was 29.

[Rinskie 510]

My first real RC was a Kyosho Icarus and I simply loved it to pieces, My first Tamiya was a TA03 followed by a F chassis. That was of course, a couple decades ago but my triumphant return to RC will be the M08 that the mailman is bringing me shortly. Yea, I am bit excited. 

[Kpowell911 1899]

Tamia M-01 Mini Cooper

[Aerobert 2145]

Tamiya Subaru Impreza WRC Monte-Carlo 05 Drift Spec (58349)

[Alexei 547]

my first kit was a TT-01, bought around 2003/2004. still have it today

[simalarion 2196]

As a boy that Tamiya Catalog actually replaced my Porn mags/Samantha Fox pics under the pillow, it totaly paralyzed me and i remember i even taped it back togheter when it was so worn it started to fall apart :).
 

On second floor in the local Toy store in town they had a big shelf with only Tsmiya kits, i would stand there for hours dreaming about owning and driving them, it took me forever to pick One when it came to that:). What i remember most was how close i was to choose Subaru Brat, i had so many toughts and going fourth and back (think i felt the Subaru would be the «adult» choice to do and my father also had a Subaru, not a pickup though), i ended up with Black Foot, i was stil going forth and back when i was there to buy a kit . Right after i bought it i saw The Grasshopper as one off my friend got that, i remember he told me that was cheaper and had a smaler motor, but that did not matter, it was love at first sight :), i badly wanted one.

I never got TGH and as my parents where divorced i had no one to fix B-F for me at home or maintain it for that matter so soon after Girls, Drinking etc etc took over and i did not look back for quite a while..

My first Kit Now taking the hobby up again was The Grasshopper, i love looking at the final product i made all by myself  this time, more than driving it, its terrible to drive hehe. My Top-Force with the exelent Top-up dsmpers is on another planet when it comes to handeling.

What i always wanted as a kid but could never get was the Bruiser, So interesting that my mind really told me to pick Bruiser or Subaru Brat and when i could not get Bruiser for the price reason i ended up with Black Foot as i wrote, then now many many years after i can afford Bruiser and then i go to Buy Agrios incl a lot off Hop-Ups, but love my Harry (as we say about “bling bling” in Norway) Agrios though .

If i should buy 1 more kit for Nostalgy reason it should be Black Foot, but so mamy other kits from that catalog back then pop up again also, yes i stil remember them as it was yesterday hehe 

 

 

 

 

[wolfdogstinkus 1893]

On 2/22/2023 at 11:22 AM, MadInventor said:

Built by my Dad as I was too young to be able to do it myself 

 

I read the Beano every week, not because I want to, I want to, but I had to check the content was suitable for my children before I gave them access to it.

That's my excuse anyway.