what was your 1st monster model kit you built..........aurora ???

[Getter_1]

Glow Phantom was my first Aurora.  I think I was six.  Aaah the good old days.

[Kenneth]

It was the longbox Aurora Dracula. I remember building and painting it as best a 6yr old could do, and then proudly showing it to my cousin (several years older). He said it looked great but needed more blood.....and proceeded to dip a paint brush in the Testor's Gloss Red Enamel and 'blotch' it all over my Dracula!  Ahhhh...fond memories!!!! I eventually bought all of the monster kits (except Forgotten Prisoner because he was not a 'real' monster).

I believe the first model I built was the Bachmann Birds of the World Owl kit. I loved those Bachmann animal kits...especially the bird series.

[mjbare]

For many years, I thought it was the Aurora long box Frankenstein. My mom had bought me the kit and showed me how to put it together. I went on to buy and build most of the rest of the Aurora kits.

In 1999, my mom had by then developed one of the dementia diseases. I had taken her out of the nursing home for lunch and a movie and we were walking through Toys R Us and saw the reissued Aurora long box kits. My mom remembered how she showed me how to build the kit and all the kits I had built since then and it was then that I returned to kit building. Before she passed away, I'd take pictures of the kits I was building and it would take her and I back to better times.

When I had purchased one of the Aurora books, I saw the Aurora Sailor and knew I had won that years ago on a local childrens TV show, Skipper Ryle in Cincinnati, Ohio. My mom and I were in town visiting relatives and she had gotten me a ticket to be on the show. I don't remember why I won it but I did and can't remember if I won it after I had built Franky or not.

Michael

[muko]

My first kit was Frankenstein and I to was hooked.I coudn't get enough of monsters.Waiting for the next copy of Famous Monsters of Filmland to come out,watching Chiller Theater on WPIX chan.11 NYC Sat nights.Also buying monster flip cards,anything monster.I'm so glad that there is a army of fellow monster lovers out there.I now know that I am not the only 55 year old still buying and building models.This is my first post and as soon as I get the hang of it I'll share some of my photos.

[Mitchellmania]

Back in 1967 when I was 5 years old I built Frankenstein (non glow) on my own. I put his hands upside down (I couldn't read instructions- I'm still not good at reading them-lol) and I painted his flesh copper and his shirt metallic green! I still have an arm left!

[Hepcat]

Well, this is going to date me.

All were long box Aurora kits.
Frankenstein was the first, followed by Dracula, then King Kong, and then the Wolfman.

I was in the fifth grade and I recall paying less than a dollar for each.  Testors pla enamel was 10 to 15 cents per bottle and adding a couple of dime brushes and a tube of model cement,  I was investing almost all of my lawnmowing/dog walking/babysitting money.

In Later I added a guillotine, the Phantom of the Opera, Creature from the Back Lagoon, and Dr Jekyll, not to forget the Forgotten Prisoner of Castle Mare.

I was also in fifth grade in 1961-1962 which were the years when Aurora issued the Frankenstein kit and then in 1962 the Dracula and Wolf Man kits.

[Wolfman]

Aurora Frankenstein.

JP

[Mike Scott]

Same here. Aurora Frankenstein.

[Rex fury]

Aurora Frankenstein for me too- Roughly 1965 or so.
RF

[fearliath]

Aurora itself was a bit before my time. Monogram Luminator Frankenstein was my first.

[BigShadow]

I first built a kit around 1996 or 97 and it was the Hunchback.  I remember gluing the legs on backwards, lol, then trying to fix it the next day.

[Gojirafan]

Definitely an Aurora glow. I remember carrying around a paper bag of parts as a very little kid trying to scare away spiders on the ceiling.. I know I had Godzilla, Dracula, Monster of the movies Ghidorah & Rodan for sure. So it was around 1975. Fond memories of Duco cement glue.

[Mike Scott]

I remember carrying around a paper bag of parts as a very little kid trying to scare away spiders on the ceiling.

How, exactly, was that suppose to work? 

[Gojirafan]

How, exactly, was that suppose to work? 

Must have been the affects of duco cement inhalation.

[Mike Scott]

Must have been the affects of duco cement inhalation.

I thought maybe you rattled the bag of parts?