Classic Matchbox EA-6B Prowler 1/72 PK410 review.
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- Gary Hider has kindly loaned this original 1979 PK410 Matchbox Grumman EA-6B Prowler in 1/72 scale for review...shall we call it 'MATCHBOX JUNE'? :-)
Thanks Gary!
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Cheers from the other side of the pond. California USA.
Always an outstanding video and presentation.
Delivered a lot of newspapers to afford the Prowler. Since then it's my most favourite aircraft. Love the lines.
I for one can't not be more excited for this long awaited review of a 43 year old model kit. I've been on the fence since 1979 but now I know
Zip lock bags storage of the decals helps tremendously.
I also add small dessicant gel bags. 👍🏻
@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab thanks so did not think of that.
We did lots of these models with my cousins when we were kids in El Salvador,thank you for sharing. BTW the characters in the back are Japanese.
I won this kit as prize from a contest waaaay back in the 80‘s… therefor I loved it… although wouldn’t have bought it myself
Thanks for this 👍✈️🇳🇿
Four "place" refers to the crew, always fancied that kit, but probably came out towards the end of my modelling days
What good memories, I was a child and my parents had a toy shop in Italy. I opened and closed the box of this model I don't know how many times, I don't know why but I liked the instruction sheet with the curale imagined building the plane.
I was helping clean up my parents house as they are looking at moving soon, and they had a box of old aircraft kits that I had forgot I had even had. One of them was this set, PK410! Immediately, I thought of your channel!
It was pretty much sealed but the plastic window on the box has deteriorated and the canopy has come off the sprue, but looked so crisp. And the tape that was used to seal the box had pretty much deteriorated too. Had a price of $8 AU on it. No idea when I took ownership of it.
Now I'm not sure what to do with it! Should I build it?
There is no Chinese on this kit(should be made in around late70's) Those non-alphabet strange texts are all Japanese.
Hasegawa Prowler is much more precise one but I love this kit,too.
Matchbox kits keeps my mind safe and calm.
Yes, thanks, - someone did point this error out already. Hope I didn't offend and Japanese viewers with my ignorance there! 🤭
Great review of an important a/c of the US Navy. For the time the model was kitted, Matchbox did an excellent job. Ya know...there could have been an HMS NImitz if a certain king hadn't taxed the tea of his up until then loyal subjects.
Lol! 😆
What about "Jo-Han June"? Can't think of another model company starting with "J"...
In my experience matchbox = no filler required
Also in 1979 Hasegawa released their 1/72 EA-6B, and in the Minicraft boxing, had the same markings, decals by Scale Master.
It was much better than the Matchbox.
@UCLrTWuPWy-QosDO0WPcP3dg Maybe if Matchbox had stayed with doing the models they did the best, they might have lasted longer in the business.
The F18 super hornet replaced all those F14 ,EA prowlers,Inturders Corsairs,F4,etc..
"Inturders", c'mon, surely they weren't THAT bad an aircraft. 😃
The F/A - 18 did NOT replace the F-14..the F/A-18 entered service in 1978 and the F-14 wasn't retired until 2005..it was replaced by the F/A - 18E /F SUPER hornet which is a completely different aircraft to the "Legacy" F/A-18.(A through D variants)
Constellation and Ranger are both pre Nimitz. Neither were nuclear powered either.
Regarding the actual kit, the consensus at the time was that it wasn't too bad but that the Hasegawa Prowler was better. A friend of mine made the Matchbox kit at the time and I seem to remember that the canopy looked a bit too shallow. If you posed the canopies open, the shape error wasn't so noticeable.
Regarding the box art, I don't remember it being different. I wouldn't blame the accountants either (guess what I do for a living😊 ). I expect it was the marketing department who decided to crop the artwork. Perhaps they thought the picture looked more dynamic if it appeared to overlap the box edges?
Overall, I think 9.5 out of 10 is a bit generous, even considering the age of the kit. As I said, Hasegawa did a better one around the same time and I am pretty sure if you saw one built up with the canopy closed you would see what I mean about its poor shape. I'd give it a 7.5.
Matchbox also messed up the canopy on their Phantom too - again it was too shallow.
My wife went to the local corner shop one day many years ago and unexpectedly came back with this model for me (the shop sold an amazing amount of things) I was recovering from surgery at the time and she bought it as a treat for me because the shopkeeper had incorrectly priced it at, I think, £3.00 and she insisted that he had to sell it at that price. What a bargain, and it certainly helped with my convalescence. Edit: Constellation and Ranger are clearly non-nuclear being "CV's" while Nimitz is coded CVN ,the N showing it is nuclear powered. Therefore they are not Nimitz class carriers and I believe they both served in the Vietnam war and perhaps were around for the Korean "police action" Edit 2: Where the instructions said "4 place" that meant 4 seats/crew , also you could change the wing positions because you just left the inserts unglued so you could swap them in and out. Sorry if I seem to be picking fault I just wanted to clear up a few things.
So I presume 'CV' stands for 'Carrier Vessel'? As for the wings position, I did point out that you could change them if unglued near the end of the vid, but don't worry about correcting me, I love factual accuracy and welcome them if I slipped up or missed something. 👍🏻
No, CV is not an acronym. It's what the U.S. Navy calls a "hull classification code" The C is used for all cruiser class vessels (although the C doesn't directly stand for "Cruiser".) The V denotes fixed wing aviation.
Building one of these at the monent...any parts that should be white and are moulded white are staying unpainted as i hate white paint...on the upside whoever owned it before me made a start on it and painted the grey and white on the fuselage and tail so thankfully thats something i dont have to do.
@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Labwhile i understand you can swap the wings from folded to deployed and back again (dont know if that was intentional on matchbox part) i find it odd they didnt give it a working fold mechanism like they did with the A7.
Got this in the stash ,one of the easiest mb kits to find over here
Have 1 of these in the stash.
Keeping in mind people back then didn't actively store kits so that people now could have them, I often wonder if it is easy, also where to find, kits from the 1970s.
There are a couple of kits I never got as a kid that I always dreamed of getting, but never did, as well as one I just found in the back of a cupboard partially completed, but wish I could rebuild from scratch.
Any ideas on this and where to start possibly looking?
Thanks.
Most of mine from Ebay...Also take a look at Kingkit.co.uk 👍🏻
@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab Thanks for that Peter, much appreciated.
I'm still at that nervous stage of starting after... many years... and freaking out about skills! Once I buy a spray gun though, I will _have_ to start building the kits sitting on the shelf lol.
Oh, it might be an obligatory thanks for the videos, but really, thanks, it means a lot.
@@andrewstamford1988 Thank you Andrew! ☺️ Have a look at this vid to help you too: ruclips.net/video/kPgyuXbr8CY/видео.html
Cheers Peter 👍🏻
@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab Thanks again.
Yeah, that's crap cropping.
You don't have enough lamps!!!!!
Are you any relation to Michael?
Japanese Not Chinese!🙉