These are my number 1 childhood memory. I played with these for hours on holiday in our caravan. Most of the time screaming at my family not to walk in the caravan as they would fall over 😂. Got them all now, mostly sealed.
One of the things I liked about Matchbox Soldiers was the inclusion of heavy weapons in each box i.e. a mortar and heavy machine gun unlike Airfix, that really made them a contender for wargaming with.
As a kid I played with the Airfix figures. They were HO/OO scale. I had gobs of them. Sadly, my nephews got to play with them, and I lost track of where they ended up.
I remember my wee ring twitching with anticipation awaiting the release of those figures,Hasegawa had some cracking figures too......Really enjoyed that chap ta! ✌️
Hi Peter. I never had any of these figures. I had the bigger one's in plain green and the Airfix one's. We used to divide them up as equal as possible and the side with fewer numbers also got the barricade and M60 tank ( don,t ask ). We used to put the on the living room floor and with a bit of Hotwheels track each we used to roll marbles in turn to 'destroy' them. In the summer we used to put them out in the garden en masse and take turns with some darts as artilery to blow them up. Much fun was had with my brothers, and of course arguments on whose had got blown up. I now wish that manufacturers did better 1/72 scale figures in many poses. Are any of them out there listening ? Good video.
Very interesting to notice that some of the German figures are in armour kits such as the Puma and Panzer II. Also some of the poses would be particularly unusual for a modern manufacturer/marketers to produce. Thanks Peter.
Great memories there, i was an RAF brat living in holland. Our local shop sold the whole range, a lot of guilders spent building up my collection. Prefered matchbox over Airfix as they painted up better.
Another excellent show Peter. Would love to see you do one on the Airfix 1/76 figures as well. A question without notice: to your knowledge did any of the manufacturers, including Tamiya for their posed 1/32 (?) figurine kits, ever do the Waffen SS? Just interested to know if this was done in the past because I doubt if anybody would touch that particular subject today, even though the Waffen SS was an elite fighting force. After all, Japanese troops were portrayed, and they were just as vicious as the SS both in combat and after it. Selective morality perhaps?
I still have the matchbox 8th army/ afrika korps/ British army/and Japanese I played with when I was a lad. Obviously not mint and they are painted, but they were so good
Had bucket loads of Airfix sets as a kid (used to play with them in the dirt round my mate Keith's house) but don't remember these and never see them at shows. Did Revell ever re-release them? Interesting that Matchbox used the same sculpts in their styrene tank dioramas - I asked Airfix last year if the could produce their little soldiers in hard plastic (easier to clean the mold lines and nicer to paint) but they said the molds weren't suitable 😢😢😢
Наверное проще было бы каждую фигурку надевать на палочку с пластилином...и крутить...И пальцы бы не были видны...и красивее демонстрация фигур получилась.😉
The officer with the Sterling-ish submachine gun could be accurate for 1944 onwards. The the Patchett Machine Carbine Mk 1, forerunner of the Sterling, was on trial during D-Day, and was issued in small numbers to airborne & special forces troops. It could take the Sten or the New curved magazine. There you go.
@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab Right? I said I had soldiers that were larger. They came in plastic bags and didn't list a scale. I had Matchbox cars in the 60's and they were top notch toys
Funniest were the only modern soldiers they had... The "NATO paratroops" that just happened to wear British uniforms walking around on some rocky island without trees that somehow looks familiar...
