Quite the mixed bag, brought back so many memories of my early years. I couldn’t wait to get as new matchbox catalog to pick through. My airfix and matchbox kits were for play, before I moved to 1/35 kits to build and display. Action2000, oh that was a flash back to the cool new sci fi toys.
I did the same with most my 1/72 back then. Yeah the sci fi stuff was so cool and everything we have today with internet, smart phones and AI seemed like a far distant future.
Very true, you can't beat old, classic, catalogues! Constantly go back and flick through my old Airfix, Matchbox, Esci, Italeri, Tamiya, Heller and a few model railroad ones.... Greetings from a Swede in Glasgow, Scotland! 🇸🇪🏴
Collected many Airfix catalogues, my earliest one from 1968. Would spend hours reading them hoping I could afford purchasing the kits or waiting for Christmas or my Birthday.
Great video and I am a subscriber to your channel now. The Atlantic Flakvierling was the very first Atlantic item I ever purchased, over thirty years ago. I still have it!
Wow that´s some attention to details. After I opened all the boxes and set up all the stuff I got I looked through the box with the Paras and there was one kneeling soldier as well. So there´s 15 figures when I get them out of the box but 16 when I get all the stuff together at the end. Also looked at the Ebay auction before throwing the box away to make sure of the number of figures.
My own focus was always WW2 1/32 scale (Airfix that is): the series from the 1970s with the black crescent shape (later in more colours) on the right side on the front. However I also still posess a couple of 1/72 and 1/76 sets, most of them Airfix, with boxes the size and the style like the British 8th Army shown at 0:45 . Also two of the bigger and later style boxes as shown in 0:40 . For some reason I bought two Matchbox sets (like those in 6:35 , on the left side). For maybe two decades I had the Matchbox 1979-1980 catalogue until it fell apart. I don't know how many hours I've spent going through those pages. During maybe 5 or 10 years almost every single one of my plastic model kits was from Matchbox. Most of them weren't painted - and they didn't really need to be painted, because the unpainted kits were in these nice bright colours. Finally in the 1980s I started building kits also from other brands, which had to be painted of course. I don't think I had many soft plastic vehicles. I stil have an Airfix landing boat, delivering troops to the shore. What an incredible sight, those early type Airfix 1/32 scale British Paratroopers! I have never seen them before.
Those catalogs were like magic back then. Hours and hours of dreaming of owning all the sets in them. That´s why I think catalogs are a great thing to collect. Great nostalgia and also give you a great overview of what was avaliable and what you might want to collect.
Collected most of the Airfx figures in the 1970's, plastic colour far better along with box artwork. 8th army and Africa Korps were perfect colour for their theatre of war and required little painting. Always better when ETO figures were green for allied and grey for German figures.
Never heard of Atlantic but immediately liked it! :D Will you do any painting videos? Been thinking to do some on my other hobby channel, just need some overlay stand to film it... :)
I want to do some paiting videos but I have almost no time to paint. There´s already sooo many great painting instruction videos on RUclips so I don´t want to do those kinda videos.
Another great box opening...like Christmas...the crazier it greats the better it gets...is that from Winston Churchill...lol! looking forward to your next batch of videos...cleaning figures...box openings and reviews...greetings from Berlin!
Looks like you have changed focus from 1/32 to 1/72. Personally I liked the airfix 8th army set a lot when I was a kid, and still does. Do you paint your figures too, and "play" with them? As for matchbox-figures I liked the modern british infantry most, they looked like the troops from the falklands. Have you done a review of them?
I collect both scales but have mostly focused on 1/32. So now I have to catch up with the 1/72. And to be honest that´s what I had most of as a kid back in the 70s.
If you're curious-hospitaler, member of a religious military society (Knights of Malta) organized during the Middle Ages to care for the sick and needy. Nice additions to the collection (s) as well, I collect miniature cars, soldiers in both 1/72 and 1/32 scale, and the occasional hand painted figures in 54mm.
@@toysoldiernostalgia I was curious as well as I hadn't heard of Chintoys, checked one of the soldier depots and as the company was Russian they have ceased operating.
My tip is pretty bad because it´s costs a bit. I use a ultra sonic cleaner. Not like a high end one. I already had it to clean brass casings for reloading ammo. It works great and is the least amount of manual work.
Love all the Airfix range soldiers it's just to bad they didn't include more poses that the 1/72 scale sets have. That goes for all range.The Australian infantry I used to have both sizes. The 1/32 scale are fantastic. The detail is super fantastic as are the tiny 1/72 as well. But that depends having extremely super eye sight. Mine is very bad. Pardon this comment for the Australian figures. From George.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️
GREAT HAUL SIR,EXCEPT FOR THE METAL MATCHBOX ,I HAVE MOST OF THE FIGURES . MY BROTHERS AND I WERE INTO WARGAMING.ON WARGAMING WITH THE AIRFIX,LOOK UP DONALD FEATHERSTONE ON YT.HE THE FATHER OF WARGAMING IN ENGLAND. TAKE CARE
Featherstone book was my bible for war gaming ,I still have it , remember finding a £1 note blowing down a street and went straight out and spent it on the book ,happy days
Magnifique !!! Atlantic et surtout Matchbox restent mes préférés, même 40 ans après !!!
Matchbox ANZACs!! Always been a Matchbox fan. They must make Arifix Japanese look like school boys.
Great stuff and glad you replaced the broken figures.
Quite the mixed bag, brought back so many memories of my early years. I couldn’t wait to get as new matchbox catalog to pick through. My airfix and matchbox kits were for play, before I moved to 1/35 kits to build and display. Action2000, oh that was a flash back to the cool new sci fi toys.
I did the same with most my 1/72 back then. Yeah the sci fi stuff was so cool and everything we have today with internet, smart phones and AI seemed like a far distant future.
Very true, you can't beat old, classic, catalogues! Constantly go back and flick through my old Airfix, Matchbox, Esci, Italeri, Tamiya, Heller and a few model railroad ones....
Greetings from a Swede in Glasgow, Scotland! 🇸🇪🏴
I remember first time flicking through a Tamiya catalouge. It was amazing because everything was on a whole different level.
Absolutely.@@toysoldiernostalgia the dioramas that they had in there were stunning. 😮
Красота!!!! С пополнением коллекции вас!!!
Collected many Airfix catalogues, my earliest one from 1968. Would spend hours reading them hoping I could afford purchasing the kits or waiting for Christmas or my Birthday.
The cataloges were magic as a kid.
Great video and I am a subscriber to your channel now. The Atlantic Flakvierling was the very first Atlantic item I ever purchased, over thirty years ago. I still have it!
Do you remember why you chose that set?
I'm looking forward to seeing the Matchbox 2000 diorama
Me too :)
happy to see you got that hiding 16th figure out of the box. I was certain you would look through the box, but still glad nonetheless you found him
Wow that´s some attention to details. After I opened all the boxes and set up all the stuff I got I looked through the box with the Paras and there was one kneeling soldier as well.
So there´s 15 figures when I get them out of the box but 16 when I get all the stuff together at the end.
Also looked at the Ebay auction before throwing the box away to make sure of the number of figures.
Maybe he was a soldier from the Kings Own Deserters. Regimental motto. "F**k This for a Game of Soldiers".
Wow - what a spend up!!!
I have a couple of boxes of Australians and the British army 1/72 scale they are awesome my friend
Great unboxings ! A lot of nostalgic memories for me!
For me to :)
My own focus was always WW2 1/32 scale (Airfix that is): the series from the 1970s with the black crescent shape (later in more colours) on the right side on the front. However I also still posess a couple of 1/72 and 1/76 sets, most of them Airfix, with boxes the size and the style like the British 8th Army shown at 0:45 . Also two of the bigger and later style boxes as shown in 0:40 . For some reason I bought two Matchbox sets (like those in 6:35 , on the left side).
For maybe two decades I had the Matchbox 1979-1980 catalogue until it fell apart. I don't know how many hours I've spent going through those pages. During maybe 5 or 10 years almost every single one of my plastic model kits was from Matchbox. Most of them weren't painted - and they didn't really need to be painted, because the unpainted kits were in these nice bright colours. Finally in the 1980s I started building kits also from other brands, which had to be painted of course. I don't think I had many soft plastic vehicles. I stil have an Airfix landing boat, delivering troops to the shore.
What an incredible sight, those early type Airfix 1/32 scale British Paratroopers! I have never seen them before.
Those catalogs were like magic back then. Hours and hours of dreaming of owning all the sets in them.
That´s why I think catalogs are a great thing to collect. Great nostalgia and also give you a great overview of what was avaliable and what you might want to collect.
Collected most of the Airfx figures in the 1970's, plastic colour far better along with box artwork. 8th army and Africa Korps were perfect colour for their theatre of war and required little painting. Always better when ETO figures were green for allied and grey for German figures.
Never heard of Atlantic but immediately liked it! :D Will you do any painting videos? Been thinking to do some on my other hobby channel, just need some overlay stand to film it... :)
I want to do some paiting videos but I have almost no time to paint. There´s already sooo many great painting instruction videos on RUclips so I don´t want to do those kinda videos.
You lucky... all the best.. :)
Cheers! 😀
Another great box opening...like Christmas...the crazier it greats the better it gets...is that from Winston Churchill...lol! looking forward to your next batch of videos...cleaning figures...box openings and reviews...greetings from Berlin!
Thanks man.
would love to see an in-depth review of the Airfix catalog page by page
I think there`s a few already on RUclips. Or maybe it`s just a page by page flip through.
Looks like you have changed focus from 1/32 to 1/72. Personally I liked the airfix 8th army set a lot when I was a kid, and still does. Do you paint your figures too, and "play" with them?
As for matchbox-figures I liked the modern british infantry most, they looked like the troops from the falklands. Have you done a review of them?
I collect both scales but have mostly focused on 1/32. So now I have to catch up with the 1/72. And to be honest that´s what I had most of as a kid back in the 70s.
If you're curious-hospitaler, member of a religious military society (Knights of Malta) organized during the Middle Ages to care for the sick and needy. Nice additions to the collection (s) as well, I collect
miniature cars, soldiers in both 1/72 and 1/32 scale, and the occasional hand painted figures in 54mm.
Cool so you´re a bit like me then. Collect a bunch of different stuff.
I have to read up on the history of the different Chin Toys sets I got.
@@toysoldiernostalgia I was curious as well as I hadn't heard of Chintoys, checked
one of the soldier depots and as the company was Russian they have ceased operating.
❤❤❤😮😮😮wonderful
you uploaded top video- man,
Thanks man.
In the video you mentioned doing something about removing paint. I would be grateful for a tip!
My tip is pretty bad because it´s costs a bit. I use a ultra sonic cleaner. Not like a high end one. I already had it to clean brass casings for reloading ammo. It works great and is the least amount of manual work.
@@toysoldiernostalgia What kind of liquid are you using?
Love all the Airfix range soldiers it's just to bad they didn't include more poses that the 1/72 scale sets have. That goes for all range.The Australian infantry I used to have both sizes. The 1/32 scale are fantastic. The detail is super fantastic as are the tiny 1/72 as well. But that depends having extremely super eye sight. Mine is very bad. Pardon this comment for the Australian figures. From George.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️
О...солдатики в 1/ 72 масштабе...очень их любли...😮🎉
Please don't open the 1/72 British Commando's. It's type two and quite rare sealed.
But if I don´t open it I will never know if it truly is the type 2 😀
If it's the 1980 release, it contains type 2. Or is your box from 1981? In that case, it's type 1. Year is on the back of the box at the bottom.
GREAT HAUL SIR,EXCEPT FOR THE METAL MATCHBOX ,I HAVE MOST OF THE FIGURES . MY BROTHERS AND I WERE INTO WARGAMING.ON WARGAMING WITH THE AIRFIX,LOOK UP DONALD FEATHERSTONE ON YT.HE THE FATHER OF WARGAMING IN ENGLAND. TAKE CARE
Featherstone book was my bible for war gaming ,I still have it , remember finding a £1 note blowing down a street and went straight out and spent it on the book ,happy days
AMEN,TAKE CARE@@johnmudd6453