I changed my mind about this set of plastic toy soldiers. Airfix WW2 Russian Infantry. 

Loved this set. Many hours of play 50 years ago!😊

My Nan lived up in Liverpool and when we went to visit her she always treated my brothers and I. She bought me the Russian set ( target box) and I remember playing with them on her front room carpet. Very happy memories. 😊😊😊

I can not tell you how much I enjoy your enthusiasm for these figures, toys & playsets. You are truly a kindred spirit! Thank you!

I wish they had brought out the 1/32 sculpts in HO/OO.

One of my first sets. Bought from Woolworths in 1970 !! Used to put them together with German 's because they were gray to even up numbers 😅 Really enjoy travelling back to playing with them in my youth 😊 Started buying them all again at toy fairs and markets. Keep filming 🎥

I remember there was Japanese army set too, one soldier was standing on one foot, charging pose thrusting his rifle and bayonet.

My first set ever, giftet by my grand dad, who fought at the eastern front as a german infantrist.

This is a classic "Shooter Guys" set. These guys are putting lead down range, not doing disco steps as they throw a small grenade! The Australians are similar in this way, lots of weapons pointing in the direction of the enemy. A great set, I have many of them in two colors.

Oh the armies we used to put together.

Can you imagine having the job of designing these things 😊

Perhaps because in the early 70s I was reading through the Sven Hassel books the German and Russian sets were my favourites.

Great stuff. You've really rekindled my love of these airfix sets and also the matchbox ones in never had but now own a boxed afrika corps set of 😊

Hello because of you and your channel I’ve taken the plunge . I went to the model shop near my house the other day and saw the ones that were made only last year Rubbish I’m bidding on four boxes on eBay. German infantry. British Gurkhas , a box of Japanese 🇯🇵 infantry , one box of British paratroopers , I had them as a child. My favourite was the German infantry which were grey. I’m quietly confident I’m going to win the bid so thank you to you. I’ve started a new hobby the ones that I made today Rubbish the ones from the 1970s are the best. They’re not as expensive as I thought. Regards DSM UK 🇬🇧

always a joy to watch your videos. One of my favorite youtube channels.

Back in the 70s I had 1/32 scale airfix german, afrika korps, Russian, American,British commando& I think Japanese soldier sets. Wow!! I love your channel, how you talk about the contents, brilliant please keep making more!!

The only thing i found unrealistic about these russian figures as a kid back in the 70s and 80s was their equipment being a little minimal.aside from one ammo pouch they had nothing hanging from their belts. And they are all wearing summer uniforms so its hard to play in a winter setting. 🥶

I always thought the Russian set had so much detail such as the guy laying down feeding the round drum on the machine gun. But then looking back now and based on war time films the Russian troops carried more kit, like a blanket roll over the shoulder, maybe one or two should have a forage cap. Still as a child they put up a fight against the Germans on my bedroom floor, great video.

Nice. Gotta paint some of these guys

The Machine gun is a DP-28

Beautifully sculpted figures, the only thing I would fault them for is the weapons look a trifle small to me. I've seen a PPSh first hand and it wasn't exactly small. The prone guy throwing the grenade was my fave as a kid, I thought that was really interesting.

Very informative, thanks for sharing you enthusiasm and knowledge for these Airfix figures 👍

My cousin had them. I found a bunch of replica moulds in four positions, scattered through a plastic bag of green army men that my son was chucking into a skip. Surprisingly good quality. Will prime and paint as soon as I've sorted them from the timee/ generic plastic soldiers

I recall having the russians in a dark reddish brown colour in the late 80s, but that might have been one of those unlicensed Hong Kong copy sets. Many of the Airfix figures showed up in those (German infantry, 8th Army, US infantry, UK paras, russians) which were sold in plastic bags in supermarkets, usually with some flags and vehicles thrown in.

Shame Airfix never ported this set to 1/72 as they are a lot better than the actual 1/72 set.

The Rusjies was one of my favourite sets!

Really like this set as a kid too.

Love these videos! They bring back great memories. Thank you!

My grandsons visiting and found my boxes of soldiers and commando comics they took most of my soldiers and a few comics i think they left them scattered in their bedroom and my daughter binned them

Watching these videos im surprised by how many of these airfix/matchbox sets i had. (A local shop sold them randomly really cheap) i also inherited alot of Esci 1/72 sets from my dad and for some reason had a ton of Warsaw pact men to outnumber my assorted NATO units. 😊

It’s a great set but they look pretty bare. Obviously summer dress. The PPSH and Tokarev SVT-40 rifles look great.

It's hilarious that you used the Russians with the Germans! I did the SAME THING. There were more Allied sets than Axis sets, so I always had the Russians fighting with the German and Japanese sets against the Allies. These videos are killin' me! I still have several of the brown box sets and vehicles from my childhood, but you're making me want to complete my collection. I do not need to collect anything new! Just ask my wife! Seriously, thanks for another walk down Memory Lane with my favorite childhood toy line.

GOOD REVIEW AND VIDEO SIR,THIS SET WENT WELL WITH MY MARX AND TIMMEE RUSSIANS SOLDIERS. TAKE CARE

great video as usual, i was born in 65 so the earliest airfix toy soldiers i had were the wonderful brown box sets, i remember the red army ones very fondly, later when i was older(still a kid though) i acquired most of the target boxes which i still have to this day, i don't know what happened to all the brown box stuff,perhaps they were lost in a house move or something like that as some of my die casts were, i notice the arthur ward book in the background which i have previously referred to

I also had the 1973 target box. The Airfix soldiers were generally good figures, I had the Aussies and Japanese too for a good rumble in the jungle, but no Germans as a counterpart for the Red army. But I loved those russians with their hard mugs, intimidating pose with the machine-guns and that dull grey tone. Oddly enough, I saw them as enforcers of a futuristic totalitarian regime in the vein of Orwell's 1984. Can't remember where did I get that notion, as I was just 6-8 years old. Some comics I read, probably. Nothing to do with the Soviet Union, which I didn't know back then, it was just a weird idea.

The Atlantic set is the best.

Empty boxes must be Italian deserters.

The LMG is a DP28.

I like your set sir i don't even have those set don't know where to find them.

Back in the day you could buy these sets in many places. Oh how difficult it was to decide which set to buy…

What a great memories about those Airfix soldiers here in Finland. I had many sets of those, also Russian Infantry soldiers, but no one liked them. As a Swede you know why😂. However I saved them years, until they came so brittle, that they distroyed in the box. The gun you asked is light machinegun DP 28 Degtaryav or Degtaryev. It also got nickname Emma here in Finland. Finnish Army got thousands of them as a spoils of war.

Nice collection well done, I have all the AIRFIX 1\32 WWII military series, the SMG the Russian infantry have is the PPD the model before the ppsh . You can find easyly out from the internet, is got a small foreforend in frond of the drum magazine, highly detailed.

For whatever reason, the Russian plastics always had a gunner holding a super tiny machine gun at his waist and firing- the MG always looked so disproportionately small compared to the figure- me and all my friends would always talk about that when we set up our battle scenes.......the artwork ALWAYS influenced which sets I purchased! :)

Great! Love these vids. Would be nice if you do the small HOO (1/76) scale figures too.

I remember having over one hundred of these Russian soldiers stored in a huge KFC bucket back in the late seventies. Brings back a lot of memories.

Another great video👏. I loved the PPSH.

I love that set a lot I waited like 8 years to get my hands on some clones from this company called Sunjade which also include Marx clones in their sets, thankfully I managed to pick some original airfix Russians a couple of years ago and they look pretty cool

The British Commando set always had way to many hand grenade throwing soldiers ! Russians were a good set !

The artwork on the 'OO' scale Russians is far more evocative of the harsh eastern front. I don't know if they changed it, but the guys on the box didn't have much time left - they can't see it, but a Stuka is closing in behind them.

Absolutely amazing

Great set...one of my earliest purchased sets from Woolworth's in Hyannisport, MA...simple design, great poses, fantastic historical accuracy...first set I ever painted. Thanks for featuring this set!

I had this set but didn't play with it much. Not sure why, I suppose I preferred the Brits to be slapping jerry.

Great video! I never liked, either as kid or adult, that the riflemen got the semi-auto. Yes they look cool but all pictures of soviet riflemen in books have Mosins, so I always wanted the figures to have them instead.

I liked it, it was one of may first sets, as was the 1/72 (which was good as well with totaly different poses. similar to some other sets). i played them a lot, they were usuable for a lot of east block armies and episodes. Box art was good. I woukld have prefered 15 different Poses. The lying Machine gunner does't neeed an ammo loader this time. The lying grenade throwing soldier is good in this case, similar to the german Fallschirmjäger Para. They are almost all in action and or shooting, this is what I liked. Some better appaeling sets to me like the british paras lose on too many marching guarding patroling poses. Soviets are not Russians, Russsians are not Soviets. I had ressentiments, too. The Germans were the good guys, by the way. They must be, there are four german sets alone, 🙂 The officer is good but, in contrast to all other figures here, not in motion. I would have, as with all other kits, preferred an officer like the german or the us army ranger marine set. Leading the front troops. There is a famous fotography, you know?? They don't quite fit to the early war germans set, which is not their fault.

For some forgotten reason I had a grand total of one Russian soldier. Possibly bought it for a penny or two at a jumble sale.

I made a desert wargaming table it’s got 3 inches of building sand it looks perfect 👌

These Russian soldiers are awesome I used to have my 132 scale and 172 scale

Besides the WWII boxes you show on the left side I also had the French and British Waterloo Infantry figures. I must have played hours and hours and hours with them way back in the early seventies. Rembember the German Mountain Troops with the skis? I kept the boxes as a child hood memory for decades. Must have been a couple of years ago I decided to put them for sale online. And still enough people interested in them. I also had the 1:72 WWI and WWII soldiers.

Meant to mention the dominance of posh is plausible as some units issued mainly submachine guns at the end of the war.

I had them in the '60 Great

Excellent. Cheers.

Which set had the russian with the blanket roll across his body? Thanks for the memories by the way, I'm not a collector but you are just giving me flashbacks of my childhood.

Whenever l think of WW2 Russian soldiers l usually picture them with forage caps rather than helmets,wearing a great coat and carrying a Moisin with its distinctive bayonet fixed. The Airfix Russians are more from around the latter part of the war maybe with their SVT-40's rather than the Moisin. Just my personal opinion.

Another nice video. I loved the grenade thrower. What do you think of the current reissues in the hard plastic.

My guilty pleasure the Russians not the best in the Airfix range. I secretly love the PPSH

I Russi! Tra i più riusciti a mio avviso. Anche la qualità del materiale plastico era migliore. Un abbraccio dall'Italia! 😊❤

Great set , i dont remeber owning it...but i had the esci and Atlantic in HO. The machine gun its a dp

Russian was one of the best ones after the Australian ,lol

The russians were my first soldiers I played with

A cousin of mine had a set of pre-Airfix 1/32 scale Russian infantry in the early 1960s, I have no idea who made them?

You were talking about the 1960’s release of square logo. I have a Japanese infantry square logo. Was this also a 1960’s release?

Play with these soldier the German and English desert troops the Japanese the English para troops was my least favorite American commandos you had big boxes and small once’s those were the days you played for hours and invite friends with there toy soldiers ☺️

perfect for cannon fodder.

I don't think I've ever had any Russian soldiers i mainly had British American German and Japanese

looks more like the Soviet PPD-40 Submachine gun than a pps (papashah)

Hey question did they ever produce British European Front Soldiers ? I know they have British 8th Army Commandos, Paratroopers & Support but I’m finding it hard to find just normal British Troops 😂

Seems like airfix,target,and esci all had the same Russian figures. The Esci dioramas have the exact same russian figures. Got them back in 1983 again the bootleg version in mint green.made in H.K.

Another great video & another of the sets I had, have you done the Aussie soldiers yet? I use to have them & the Japanese as well

I never had any Russian soldiers. DP-27 is the drum fed large machine gun.

Afrika Corp did it for me could never afford them 😢

I would like to know which idiot in the drawing of the 2000s in the red box of the Soviet infantry on the tank tower drew the sign of the ROA collaborators? Please note!😂

You said your fist boxes were the Target ones, what year were you born? My first boxes were Target and I was born in 1965

Did the German Infantry and British Paratroops also change box art?

cool video,i guess Airfix didnt want to make the russians look to good,as they were released during the cold war period.just a thought

Je préférais les plus petits. La boîte était plus remplie. J'aimais bien : les Australiens la VIII ème armée les paras anglais les allemands. Il existait une autre marque formidable pour l'antiquité (égyptiens, grecs, troyens et romains). Les figurines étaient orange très clair.

for some reason i remember Russian toy soldiers as being reddish brown, must have been a different brand?

The earlier box art has the Political Commissar urging Ivan forward for glorious Motherland. The box art from 1973 has the blocking battalion making sure there are no mistakes.

l. Changed. My. Mind. about. This. Set. Of. Plastic. Toy. Soldier. Airfix. WW 2

Great in-depth look at these figures! Since I prefer only the German soldiers in my own collection to be grey, I actually really like the look of the ‘86 dark orange/brown Russians! The machine gun is a DP-27, though many also refer to it as a DP-28. The “DP” standing for the “dinner plate” shape of the magazine lol.

Nice set the Russians

It would be nice if you show us how to paint them with realistic colours !!😊

Send me one to Argentina 🇦🇷 please 😩😩😩😩😩🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 ,,,,, I can't get it ( Soviet box )

Some of the airfix have some questionable choices of weapon, for example: the us standing rifle man has m1 carbine instead of the more iconic m1 garand, and in this case, the svt 40 instead of the mosin nagant. But anyways, nice figures

You think these Ivans are "bad" wait until you see the Airfix "Modern Russians" 😂

Hur många olika "targetboxes" släpptes i Sverige? Jag har hittat 18 olika arméer när det kommer till 1/32 skalan. Fanns det fler? mvh/Mr.V