"All you converters, kitbashers, & other violators of kit ..." Topic

… did you start out – way back when – building Lego kits by following the instructions, then recombining the pieces?

This thread made me wonder it that influenced me…

I'm sorry to say I started kitbashing before I ever heard of Lego. It became a habit when I needed sci-fi armored vehicles.

My Mother forbade legos when I was young. Something about not wanting to step on them. I don't recall just when I started kitbashing and converting. But I do remember why I started. Couldn't get what I wanted otherwise. A bit like LaserGrenadier, except I'm a historical gamer…

It was Meccano for me.

I just started kitbashing c. 8 years old, possibily even before I build any kit following the instructions!

My older bothers had long built plastic model kits. As I was learning to trim, glue, and paint, I got to work with any left-over bits from their kits.

Started out with Lego, began kit bashing at a very early age (I won a cub scout modelling competitoon with a diorama of a first aid station featuring Airfix jeeps and Universal Carriers converted into front line ambulances after seeing some similar models in an Airfix Magazine annual. A pity I won as the first prize was a 1/32 vintage Rolls Royce model and I really wanted the second (1/600 model of HMS Leander)!

I started kit bashing while in High School (1961), I made an armored car out out a plastic model Ontos. My brother, who was 4 at the time broke it up:( Long before Lego plastic bricks, but once I found them in the 1970's I did lots of building and continue to this day. Built up all of the pirate ships and made crews for games

in my day there were no instructions… we kit-bashed using erector set parts, popsicle sticks, Lincoln logs and a heavy dose of imagination.

my first kit bashed "armored vehicles" consisted of 7 dominoes (8 if heavily armored in front). 4 were the square, 2 flat on top leaving a space in the mid-section and one laid flat as the gun. Rubber bands were the ammo of choice.

My approach to model conversions was entirely unrelated to Lego and almost entirely related to Airfix magazine and Military Modelling. Back in 1960s Lego was just Lego, no kits.