I review the WW2 1/32 German Infantry toy soldiers from Italy´s Atlantic. 1970´s vintage army men.
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- Starting going through all the soldier sets from the Atlantis collection I bought a while back. Started with the germans as they are the backbone of any young boys forces.
You have quite a collection, I too have a soldier hoard. This channel rocks😅
Thanks man.
@@toysoldiernostalgia hey, no worries my friend. I'm just glad I'm not the only one that like army men. I'm looking forward aluminium soldiers too!
@@toysoldiernostalgia I'm also very nostalgic, I used to have a PC from 1993. My dad threw it away in 2001 when I was 12, major bad day!!!!
Damn, I wish I had some atlantic soldiers, good video as always
Thanks man. Yes they are well worth collecting.
Excellent. I thoroughly enjoy watching you enthuse about your favourite childhood toys. Good for you. Atlantic HO/OO crossed my path one time. And one time only. I think it was Custer's Last Stand? An Auntie thought it would be appreciated. How kind of her. Our Air Rifles appreciated their new targets greatly. A friend of mine got a huge set of Atlantic, identical to yours for Crimbo. It almost ruined his day. He spent Boxing Day down in the dumps. The best we could do was for each of us give him one of our Airfix Boxes of 1/32 Soldiers. As I mentioned before, his Atlantic Army died bravely during a sustained bombardment of fireworks and repeated volleys of of sustained shot.
For just a few pennies per box. one could enjoy a weekend of marksmanship practice. Fantastic memories.
Throw in candles, Cotton wool soaked in Methylated Spirit, windproof matches and some or those rubber capsules filled with Lighter fluid and... Thank goodness, a Trip to Casualty was paid for by the NHS.
The trials and tribulations of sub par toy soldier.
We took a few 1/32 chinese copies to the range the other day and shot them with the AR15 at 35-40 meters. Not that easy to hit but lots of fun.
My favorite panzer grenadiers in 1975 😍
Love the Atlantic range
2:42 Heh, I thought that the guy with the MP40 was getting shot, I agree with you, the mp40 is kinda big and kinda heavy for a smg I say this for experience since I already used that firearm
Cool you shot a MP40? I only held a STG44 but never got to shoot it.
@@toysoldiernostalgia yeah, I already used that one and a luger pretty cool firearms
Nice.@@IMCproductions
Sacrée collection !!!!
I had grey Germans and green Americans, I bet every house I grew up in still has 1 or 2 buried.
Funny we’ve been in our property for years and my husband still finds soldiers buried in the old sand pit.
After a rain storm it’s amazing what ‘treasures’ appear..
Sadly though time and weathering takes its tole on plastic. Missing limbs etc..
He still regrets, as a child seventy years ago, burying a box full of soldiers in the garden of the house where he spent his child hood.
That’s a country away now…but there for someone else, ( mebbe they have already),to discover..
Dreams..
Thanks for the program.
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The Atlantic officer looks more authentically German then Airfix,even though hes Blue!
This is AWESOME ❤️
They look goofball but I would love to have them. They would look cool when painted
Cool stuff 😎
Excellent 👍
I might start collecting these too... what do you think is a reasonable price per box these days?
That´s realy hard to say. The germans are a bit more expensive than some of the others and the sailors are pretty inexpensive. I guess between 25 and 70 euros depending on set and condition.
Oh OK, thanks! You inspired me to start re-collecting the 1/32 Airfix soldiers a couple of months ago and I nearly have all of them already... still need the Cowboys and Indians. @@toysoldiernostalgia
Those Cowboys and Indian sets are suuuuper expensive. I was talking about the regular soldier sets as far as prices. The Wild West sets usualy go for 150 to 300 euros and sometimes more. I want to get those as well one of these days but for now I need the money for other toys.@@DocReasonable
Hope I can get lucky on those! I did recently get the US Cavalry for $70 Australian in box, in fact that's on the way to me now. @@toysoldiernostalgia
Very interesting poses! Comparing them to the Airfix figures comes naturally, I still have lots of Airfix boxes, but no Atlantic boxes. I see Atlantic has decent MP40 armed figures - not that mysterious monstrosity included in the Airfix set.
Yes they did a good job with that. Not always the case with Atlantic.
The German Infantry of Atlantic is excellent.
I agree :)
Atlantic beauties...i never understand the scared running german 😂
Other than that one of my preferite sets.
The different coloration is due to the stiffeners added and that affects the molding properties during production. The lighter blue ones have more Titanium or Calcium, the darker ones have more Aluminum, Chromium and Bromine. In the 1970's manufacturers could add Arsenic to the plastic if they wanted to, then concern over exposure to kids made them all slowly remove certain inorganics to the plastics and transition to organic colorants. This transition period meant some batches of soldiers get brittle easier, whereas others do not
Well I´m pretty sure the white and green set of mountaintroops are only a difference in pigment not stiffeners. Or the red or blue Sailors or the green and blue flak guns.
Airfix and Matchbox never had this variantion so I tend to think it´s deliberate as many sets vary totaly in color.
Ah, thanks, I always wondered how they coloured plastic. What is the name of the chemicals that either harden or soften plastic. I saw a TV programme about it, but I forgot the names of the 2 ingredients and I couldn't find out via Google.
@@ronaldmcdonald8303 Phthalates.
@@HO-bndk Thanks
I have the atlantic figures but from another brand....
Bavarelli?
@@toysoldiernostalgia No... is it possible to talk through email?
I don´t have an email for this channel yet@@bentobarreirinhas5702
Is there anywhere you can get these?
Ebay is your best bet.
@@toysoldiernostalgia that’s what I was thinking, thanks for the info and good vid
Thanks man@@SeditioPlays
l saw a few boxes at a church rummage sale ...bthe woman wanted $50 a box ... l did think about it for a minute
Not a great nor bad price.
Nella serie 1:72 non esistono i 2 soldati con la mitragliatrice, una delle tante stranezze atlantic
Ok didn´t know that. Thanks.
They look like crude remakes of the vastly superior Airfix set (excepting the interloper with the machine pistol in the Airfix set).
Leider wird immer noch derselbe Fehler gemacht. Feldspaten und Bajonett wurden grundsätzlich einheitlich links getragen. Brotbeutel, Feldflasche und Gasmaskendose immer rechts hinten!
Everything is "cool".
Yup if you love old toys like me it ends up all being cool. Awesome, cool ,great you take your pick 😄
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Those figures I had in 1/72 scale once upon a time. They do go well with the Airfix mix and match. They're not too bad at all. Some strange poses but pretty good. I wish I had those.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️
Italians ATLANTIC, economics but terribles
But they would look cool if they get painted
I have seen some painted on the internet and they look pretty good.
@@toysoldiernostalgia not good by the contemporary standard, but they still have lots of details. I just checked the price and they are terribly expensive now.