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Have you walked through the trench experience?

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Such a nice array of historic armor! Bovington is on my Bucket List for sure! 😎👍

*the best part about the Matchbox kits, especially those that included a part of a diorama was that you could build it and have a finished result without needing to paint it....*

Great job , think I made that 40 years ago!!!!

Sweet memories !!!! TY !

Can't wait to see you build this.

Fantastic.

Another great build. If only mine looked as good when I was 11

Excellent build, well done 👏

These were great (not-so-little) kits and some are still available under the Revell brand. Great stuff!

one of the all time classic kits, thanks for sharing

Very good vid. I always thought the Airfix Sd.Kfz.7 and the Matchbox Sd.Kfz.11 were the most useful German kits, as they could tow / be posed with a wide variety of guns, from the Nitto 1/76 light flak to the 10.5cm, which requires a slight cheat by using a 1/72 Zvezda or ACE gun, but the larger scale not noticeable as there are no 1/76 10.5s, unless you count the Matchbox polythene horse-drawn version. I also thought the Matchbox had the edge as it had opening doors to the ammo compartment. But the big difference between your build and my 1970s builds is the spray paint. I used to brush paint all the wheels, tyres, etc, front and back on the sprues, avoiding any surfaces that needed gluing, which took ages. That is why my Afrika Korps still remains mostly unbuilt 50 - 60 years later in a cupboard! I do have one of these on the go at the moment, to be paired with a Zvezda le.FH 10.5 cm, which will require a thin bit of plasticard in the cubby to show 10.5cm ammo instead of 7.5cm, and I have yet to find a pic of a real one with open doors to show how many ammo cells are needed. I have also not seen a pic of how the 2cm or 3.7cm ammo was stored, but I assume it was in stacked boxes. Thanks again for the vid.

Nice one. Subb'd!

Outstanding takes me back to my childhood 👍

The sanitising of kit box artwork was just a historical blip. Have a look at Airfix's current range of kits. Plenty of action on the box art there.

Wonderful nostalgic build and a fine result. I loved the palm tree diorama for this one, even though the Wespe was never used in North Africa. That never worried us in the 1970s, though!

Great video

Tamiya extra thin works perfectly when applied thinly on decals (doesn't matter how old they are). It not only creates the strongest bond, but also melts away the films and gives the decals a matt painted look. Don't be greedy though, or it can melt away the decals. 👍

Absolutely love those classic old kits, but they are hard to find now.

These matchbox kitsare going up in price on ebay.

Awesome mate! 🇦🇺👍🇦🇺

They had a DAK kit back in the late 60's early 70's that had the track carrier and an 88' instead of the PAK 40.

The only bad thing of these Matchbox-kits was the wrong scale 1:76 instead of 1:72.

The memories ♥ I have the one on the right, bought 40 years ago. Still can't get over the fact it's a tail-sitter 😂

Great looking model. I built some of those in the 70s as a kid and had great fun. The Bovington tiger has the disruption pattern but in a very similar colour to the base yellow, not grey.

Best kit i ever had 😾 Also there's literally hundreds of photos of DAK vehicles in panzer grey with magnolia paint over them

Stop using Tamiya extra thin. Use Tamiya airbrush cleaner, it is exactly the same product at a fraction of the price.

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Looked really cool 👍

I never made this one. It's an awesome amount of diorama that comes with it.

Please consider doing a Matchbox Brewster Buffalo in Dutch Airforce markings🙏🏻😀

superb!!

Mine never looked that great. Pretty sure the camo is fantasy though. Are you sure any of these were ever produced with the zwastika? I never saw one outside of the old catalogues, and those look painted on. I think the mould was destroyed before production began. Early case of political correctness destroying a hobby!

Superb😊👍🏻👏🏼

I have 2 of these in my stash, I've been thinking about building one so I'm watching your video and looking forward to your build. . I subscribed after watching many of your construction videos :-)

Great vid and presentation, 👍🏻 though the vid title sounds dangerously close to a copy of my own work? (Wellingtons, Victors, Harriers, etc) I take it that was just a coincedence? 😡 I would hate to send a 'Cease & Desist order'! 😂 Look forward to seeing more from you...☺️

Thanks for the video! I just got this kit from my wife as an anniversary gift. I'm hoping to get the same awesome result.

Fabulous job I have this kit and a few more I picked up at a toy fair . Just hope I get mine to look half as good as yours

l love these old Matchbox kits . ln those days getting figures with the models was an added bonus we no longer see but Matchbox excelled by including dioramas with their military vehicles .Have this one to build mine being the Revell reissue which is nice to see these classic old kits once more available at a reasonable price . Good video .

I loved this kit as a kid when it came out :)

Matchbox!!!! Yaaaaaas!!!😊😊😊😊

Not “eleven” 🙄 II = 2 not eleven

Nice job. Matchbox were really on point with these kits with everything a kid could want in a box - vehicles, scenery and figures! Its a shame that Revell tend to reissue the tanks rather than these multi vehicle sets (like the Monty's Caravan) - perhaps an email campaign....!

I remember building this back in the 1980s, mine had the symbol. Gerat content thanks.

Excellent build son 👍 Brings back a lot of memories I built that back in the day. Today I still build models and collect Matchbox models.

What a great job you've made of that lovely diorama. My memory of Matchbox kits were that they went together well, bit like 1/76 Tamiya. I remember the first kits being released about 1973, the 1930s Boeing biplane with green and yellow sprues, and a Fury biplane with light blue and light brown sprues, I would have been coming up to 10 years old in December '73, but we moved a lot, so my memory is connected to different places we lived in Hampshire, Portsmouth, Aldershot, Fareham, and before that New Milton, New Forest area, so my dates are not clear. Anyway, pleasure watching you revive this lovely old kit that doesn't look particularly dated to me. Subbed, and look forward to your other builds.

Yes ! One of my favourite Matchbox kits. Looking forward to seeing these completed as you've planned. I have one in my stash that I want to build as option 1, ( Kommando Novotny ), but in a RLM 74, 75, 76 camouflage scheme which I think is the correct colours for that time. Built & painted one in that option in my early teens, ( I was a kid of the seventies which ages me ), & I was really chuffed with how it looked when finished. I also have an M/box BF109E that I want to finish in the Romanian Air Force scheme as I've always liked that more colourful option.

Fantastic build mate, I've got one of these in my stash, purely because I enjoyed it so much first time around as a young lad. You're absolutely right on the dioramas, they lift little scales like these incredibly. Makes it a real display piece rather than an out of place afv model on a shelf! Wish more manufacturers would take this onboard. Thanks again. James