First Model

For Fathers' day this year, my three year old son and I built his very first model kit together. It was a model plane that came with a Target gift card, which looked like this:

Always nice to get a "free" model

The "kit" consisted of two sprues of pre-painted hard styrene plastic, which snapped together, fairly tightly.  The instructions were almost easy enough for a three year old to follow, and the parts were pretty easy to cut from the sprue with clippers (I did not use a knife for obvious reasons).  The seems to be loosely based on a Stearman biplane, and if you were so inclined, you could probably modify it to work with 28mm figures pretty easily. (remove the dog head, cut out a cockpit, and cut down the wing struts to the correct height)  Alternatively, you could get a couple of them, and use them for dogfighting...

The best part?  My son had a good time.  Now I just need to get him started on painting so I can sub-out my army production...