This is my 10 year old daughters first model. After seeing me work on my stuff she started to express an interest in trying one. We went to the model store and she liked the good'ole P-47. She did most of the work herself. I cut the parts out for her and trimmed them up but she glued them together and sanded the seams as best she could. She did quite a bit of the painting by brush but she also airbrushed the exterior herself. I gave her a quick five minute crash course in airbrushing and let her try it. I held the plane why she worked the airbrush. I would tell her if she was holding it too close or going too fast or too slow. I did the decals for her because she's gone to Florida to spend time with the Grandparents. Overall she did pretty good for her first model. I'll have to pick one of these up for myself.

WOW! Very nice! She builds aircraft far better than I do, and I'm 40 years older than her!

Dern........I wish mine turned out that good..........I'm gonna go cry in a corner :-)

Now thats what I am talking about, Kids. Girls! Getting into this wonderful hobby. She could be out putting dried flowers in a photo album, or knitting, but instead shes building a model!

Thats what I like to see, and as far as the plane, I would like to see more!!!!
Tell her that Chip250 said she is an excellant builder!

~Chip

Nice one Tin Can! :-) You must feel very proud!

Crikey... airbrushing at 10 years old! There'll be no stopping her :-)

She's gonna have fun reading the posts when she get home...

All the best

Rowan

I sent an email to her down in Florida with a link to this post.

Outstanding work, im still nowhere near that standard with aircraft.
Congratulate her. You should show her these posts aswell, might keep her interested in the hobby, that and free acess to her fathers unbuilt kits and supplies!!

Nice one!! Make room in the crying corner for me, people. She did a fine job, Brian.

dam she did a nice job,,,,
she build better then me lol...
i will post my pics when iam done

Very very nice for a first build.. I think you may have created a monster Tin. Lets hope so and see more of her work..
Congrats to you and your daughter. I sure would display it where evryone could see it!!!!!!!!!!!
Paul

Tres cool - she's pretty far up on the ol' learning curve!!!

I showed her how to do one seam and she did all the rest. I was really surprised at how good she did. She really got into the airbrushing...lol!

so, you gonna give her the 1/32 Academy Hornet for her next kit? Huh? Huh? Huh?

Myself first...if it ever comes down in price.

Great job Miss Tin Can. I look forward to helping my son with his first model kit here in a couple of years.

Awesome work! She is quite an artist. She obviously has quite a teacher!!!

Scott

She did a pretty nice work. Tell her that the guys of armorama enjoyed her plane. lol Congrats, you must feel proud.

Awesome P-47 for a first timer , Your daughter did a fantastic job
on the plane, put my boys to shame, now they are out there coin
tossin to see who gets the first build. LOL . :-) :-)

Well .... Hmmm.......One Word ... It is very difficult to say something , it take away My speech - I look for this P-47 and try to image - how Your daughter will kit models in next few Years !!! She will be a Master !!! - Very, Very nice job , Send her Greetz from Poland .

Regards