Hello mr. Timewaste!ohhh ilove those vintage boxarts.they take me back when i was a child modelling.ohhh those happy childhood days.with best regards your modellmate.christian
Try this if it's available where you live for masking large areas, try Silly Putty play toy. It gives excellent declamation lines, and it's easy clean up too! Plus, it can be used multiple times before you need to replace it, cheap, easy to use, and reusable, all wins in my book!
Is the video too long or too short? Do you want to see more detail? What do you think I have missed out? If you give me more detail or what I’ve missed in the video I will try to include in the next 👍
Used to look through these on the shelves of my local hobby stores to see if there were any new ones. The box art alone made these very exciting kits as a kid.
That's very well done. I would recommend the Hasegawa Buffalo kit (reboxed by Hobby 2000) as it's still a fairly simple kit but has much nicer details to start with. You can also get Eduard canopy mask for the Hasegawa kit, which I find a lot easier to use than liquid mask. BTW a 1/35 HMS Vanguard would be very impressive but I think you mean 1/350 :)
I remember building that Kit, I also had the Sherman Firefly, LRDG truck n jeep, Krupe Protze with anti tank gun and a couple others, Matchbox models with scenery was the ducks nuts and affordable 😁😁
Aorund the early 80s I built model kits in Germany. Due to the ban all swastikas on the decals were either cut out or crossed out with black marker before the kits were going to retailers. In latter case you could use spirit to remove the marker and still use that decals.
If you're looking for inspiration for the Mk.IX, perhaps try a Malta based aircraft - lot's of interesting scheme variations and weathering opportunities.
As a brutally inexperienced modeler who eschews anything resembling realism and authenticity to cover up my boundless laziness and lousy painting skills, I actually have a tip for better tarps (which I use a lot, a wonderful way to hide gross flaws and poor work on my models). Tea bags. Use them, dry them, empty the tea, unfold them and you have a thin, stronger than normal paper, easy to mold with water and PVA glue, easy to paint. I've found it behaves more like tarp than any other paper Ive tried, and I don't tear it apart with a wet brush. I'm also a cheap ass who doesn't like to throw things away. So theres that.
@@creativetimewasting Well I was, as the cheap ass that I am, looking at the tea. I could dry this up and use it in a terrain thinking, so I dried it and then I (cheap ass as Iam) looked at the bag itself and holy crap, this is thin and can take a lot of spoon abuse I wonder... and yes that bag is solid as fcuk. But the tea itself is useless. As far as I know. And that is ok because I dont drink much of it anyway. Dirt from the garden do a better job and is as free as used tea.
I remember and build both in theire original boxings as a kid. I did like Mathbox as a brand the best, before Tamiya came around. Thanks for sharing, both are quite pleasing models in the end <3
First kit I ever built in the 70’s, bought it with 50p I was given, no money for paint, glue everywhere, why did Matchbox do them is such strange colours
Hi. I have made both of the Marders and there good little kits. Some details are a bit soft but these can be replaced with plasticard or rod. Good models at a good price. Nice job.
I agree that’s why I thought a little video might raise their profile a little. The kits are worth a look and if you visit my instagram account if the same name you will see a lot more of them 👍
I remember building this one when i was about 8 years old, matchbox were brilliant kits for their time. I always think the current airfix range would do alot better if they included matchbox style diarama stands with their kits 🤔
UM makes russian tanks that no one else makes, esp in 1/72. like the T-26, Bt2,5,7 and others. I made a Su-76M. Definitely moderate to advanced level, all the parts are tiny, and as you say reference material is needed to see where some parts go. Yours came out very nice.
I buy from PMS Plastic Model Store in Ukraine. It should be mentioned, the country is being bombed. Airfix and Tamiya are not :) The kits are good models, and the store has better prices, better shipping and can get them to me faster than Airfix can get me theirs. Tamiya doesn't make 72nd scale vehicle kits. Old Airfix kits CAN be abominable. New tooling kits are great though.
Remember when Matchbox came on the scene with their kits and kicked Airfix in the butt with their indentation panel lines and precise fit. Nice work. (Had the Bristol Beaufighter myself which was ace.)
These were purchased directly from Ukraine by a third party for me to build, I can check from him where he ordered them from and I will get back to you 👍
One of the Matchbox car catalogues fro the 70s had a cross-promotion picture of the 1/76 AFVs, a Honey on the transporter, with the LRDG 'meeting' them on a road in the desert. I remember it well and it was about then I switched from die cast to making models. I built both these in the day, and the M19 more recently for a Britmodeller group build. I am surprised nobody makes aftermarket tracks for 1/72 models: there are thousands of older kits out there with tracks missing or useless. Yet there are 20 companies making Panther tracks in 1/35, even though most kit tracks are fine.
@@lllordllloyd I think I have a vague memory of the image you describe as for the matchbox tracks I think a link and length solution for the outset might have saved many kits from cracked/ broken tracks.
MPC also had a version of that kit. The first kit I built that I felt looked good. It came in MPC's usual white styrene. Hand painted it aluminum with yellow wings. My take on pre-war US Navy color scheme. Nice work.
I remember doing that. No paint needed. I lived very close to thenSeletar Air Base where they were stationed. .And played on a wreck as a boy. By the way the Buffalo had a 2 to 1 kill rate until overwhelmed. Squadrons on Burma preferred it to their Hurricanes. It holds a 42 to 1 kill rate. The highest of s prop aircraft. Not bad for a bad plane.
Airfix released a buffalo in RAF markings but the kit is actually the navy version. It can be converted with work. The matchbox is a far more rare kit.
It's probably because when Airfix first started to issue their armour models in the 1960s, they were in 1/76. Matchbox started around ten or so years later and, I assume, thought it would make their kits compatible in scale with Airfix. Now, armour kits tend to be moving towards 1/72, so the older kits don't necessarily sit well with them.
