I’m smiling at the thought of the operation of the quad AA/trailer combo. I’m thinking that the trailer/farm cart would have literally fallen apart on firing or at least possibly the recoil would mean that they ended up a half mile from where they started😂 I’m new to your channel (so glad I found it), and the Atlantic brand, it’s strange how the boxing suggests a level of “quality” but the sculpting/accuracy is more akin to the content of the of the little green men play sets that you can buy at the seaside.
Glad you like the channel and maybe I can get you hooked on Atlantic. Even though they are a bit rubbish they grow on you and all of a sudden you end up kinda liking them.
Different colors in this plastic depends largely on the concentrations of the inorganic stiffeners added to the plastic. Early 1960's plastics could contain all sorts of harmful elements like Cadmium, Chromium, Arsenic and so on. By the later 19070's toy manufacturers were beginning to reduce or eliminate the levels of these additives and find new ways to maintain plastic flow into the molds. That meant using more Calcium, Aluminum, Titanium, Zinc and Barium. I can estimate the time of manufacture date of propylene plastics by their trace element concentrations from these additives. Cheers, and yes I am a chemist.
Fascinating video. Thank you. As a child Atlantic were a definite avoid. Somehow, they were just not good enough for the Wargaming Table. So, it is good to see what we were not spending our pennies on.
Another remarkable video. I believe I've said it earlier in one of your other videos or shorts - you should start a museum. I wonder how many other collectors could start one... Overall quality reminds me why I had chosen for Airfix and a few Matchbox figure sets instead of Atlantic. I cannot remember how widespread Atlantic's availability was in the Netherlands in the 1970s, though it seems Atlantic had more additional soft plastic guns than Airfix had. Btw way the English subtitles say ''Deutsche Africa Corps"' which should be Deutsche Afrika Korps of course.
I don´t think I have nearly enough of a wide collection for a museum. And that seem like a lot of work :) The subtitles are auto generated by RUclips. Guess the transaltion AI is not a history buff lol.
As a young adult I only bought a couple of the small scale sets as I found them a bit weird. Had loads of Airfix sets as they were much better. I really want to see what the vehicles look like as I dont remember seeing them for sale.
I don´t know if they were ever sold in the UK. Here in Sweden I don´t think they were. But sometimes smaller importers and distributors only sold in a smaller region. When we used to go to the south of Sweden in the summers there were a lot of toys that my local toy store did not have.
I think I had the sailor set of soldiers in dark blue. They were 'sort of' 1:32 scale - would have been a foot taller than Matchbox and Airfix 1:32 scale soldiers in real life. Never played with them much. Beside being too big I could never convince myself of a believable battle set up between them and the rest of my soldiers.
Great fun as always. I've got anti aircraft gun in dark blue. A school friend gave me it back in 70s. I didn't realise what it was or who made it till I started watching you ! Going to keep look out for atlantic. Their sets look really cool. Keep filming 🎥.
Interesting problem, the Atlantic molds. The keyword to that question (one of the keywords, at least) is "Nexus", a company who purchased many Atlantic molds, including the "revolutions" series. I bought a "Russian revolution" set by Nexus many (oh, so many) years ago... here are some maybe useful links, maybe not, ... www.atlanticmania.com/EN/Storia.htm imagorecensio.blogspot.com/search/label/Atlantic
Estoy totalmente de acuerdo,además conozco la historia contada por el mismo escultor que trabajaba para la antigua esci y italeri y es un genio luego ha creado figuras de las mejores del mundo pero solo hizo lo que le mandaba el director comercial de atlantic en esa epoca que siempre se compara con airfix que es una fábrica de maquetas y el elemento histórico siempre fue por delante,sin embargo atlantic su propósito era crear soldados de"juguete" no se pretendía purismo en los detalles históricos uniformologia etc,conservo una foto del escultor en su taller en Italia.
Me pregunto por que a veces atlantic hacia vehiculos tan esotericos o de fantasia como el antiaereo-bañera aleman a remolque o el blindado Nato que es el shado copia de dinky con una radio del tamaño de una catedral sin embargo el sherman y el t34 /85 eran correctos de escala pequeña y el ontos no estaba mal ysin embargo a veces te sorprendian desagradablemente ,el lanza 13:42 misiles pasa la prueba por parecerse a un rapier ingles.
I don´t know if anyone has the info on who sculpted these or who made the design decisions. But as there are lots of great figures and models out there I don´t mind Atlantic being a bit funky. Makes them fun to collect.
Do you have any sets of soldiers from a company called "expeditionary force"? Sometimes called "x force". They are very detailed and even the boxes are cool. For example the ww2 us infantry box is a olive green with a white star. And the Japanese sets have a rising sun flag with katana sword. I have a good many sets from this company and use them for a ww2 combat strategy game me and a few friends play. Some pieces require using glue though. The heads and arms are separated and require being glued in place but you can mix up the different heads and limbs and weapons so that most soldiers will be unique instead of all looking exactly the same. You would probably enjoy the sets from that company. They are around 20-30 dollars for a squad sized unit,sets vary from 9 to 12 soldiers in each set. I'm not sure what other time periods or wars they make sets of but they have many nice ww2 sets. They are all 1/32 scale. Also does anyone know a company that makes US and North Korean/Chinese commie figures in 1/32 scale? Plenty of ww2 era figures around but I want to put together some sets from the Korean war era 1950-1953.
@@toysoldiernostalgia Yes, I know such a breeder. Singapore. I have a review on a set of such toy soldiers on my channel. These are game figures made of material similar to Airfix. Very interesting figures for various historical periods.
It´s just that you spend all that time prepping the soft plastic and then painting just to have the paint chip when you handle them. This soft plastic is pretty terrible for oainting and I have kinda given up on it.
@@toysoldiernostalgiafound that as a kid. Nothing mde paint stay on them. There may be something these days that adheres and flexes enough but i doubt it.
From George. How about a multy coloured version blue and green. It seems that was sometimes the way. While I had some Airfix soldiers I did also collect lots of the copied versions of German infantry that were green. But they were found easier at local shop in a plastic bag. Also cheaper priced. I'd buy them from a chemist strangely. Places close to where I lived in 1970. Others would be in news agency.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️
I would very much like to know where all these items i can find to buy some. That is an incredibly fantastic collection. I'm amazed by this. I had nothing as close to that type of collection ever in toy soldiers.definetly hardly a vehicle or weaponry.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️
@@toysoldiernostalgia Hello from George. I had a look on eBay and I did see the latest Airfix soldiers but not all. Just the German infantry, American, British, German Afrika Korps, German mountain troops maybe once of those. I've seen other collections of mixed soldiers for sale and some very poor moulded figures. But your right eBay where I do my purchases from anyway is the way to go. Have you seen a brand called Mars? I think they're made in Ukraine. I've purchased from Ukraine but only model kits. They do have a variety of toy soldiers in 1/72 and 1/32 scale. All the best to you.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️
@@toysoldiernostalgia Hanomak brand is the latest German Elite troops or platoon I've just seen. The details are better than Airfix and each figure is different. No doubles by the looks of it. But I'm sure you've seen them or know about them already.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️
Как всегда, шикарное видео, спасибо огромное!!! Наборы супер!!!
Thank you for taking the soldiers off the sprue and assembling the set.
No problem. I realy want to be able to use the toys I collect.
I love this channel. These toys are amazing. I don’t need to buy them any more because I just watch your videos.
Thanks man :)
atlantic was and still is very fascinating
I had a lot of fun with these, mostly 1:72 scale as a kid. My favorites were the Atlantic wargames. Great memories!
I have seen those games on Ebay. Maybe I should get some :)
I’m smiling at the thought of the operation of the quad AA/trailer combo. I’m thinking that the trailer/farm cart would have literally fallen apart on firing or at least possibly the recoil would mean that they ended up a half mile from where they started😂
I’m new to your channel (so glad I found it), and the Atlantic brand, it’s strange how the boxing suggests a level of “quality” but the sculpting/accuracy is more akin to the content of the of the little green men play sets that you can buy at the seaside.
Glad you like the channel and maybe I can get you hooked on Atlantic. Even though they are a bit rubbish they grow on you and all of a sudden you end up kinda liking them.
Congratulatios! Atlantic is very nice!
thank you for your videos
Thank you for watching 😀
I love all of them more vids. The artillery and mortar unit is my favourite ❤❤
Different colors in this plastic depends largely on the concentrations of the inorganic stiffeners added to the plastic. Early 1960's plastics could contain all sorts of harmful elements like Cadmium, Chromium, Arsenic and so on. By the later 19070's toy manufacturers were beginning to reduce or eliminate the levels of these additives and find new ways to maintain plastic flow into the molds. That meant using more Calcium, Aluminum, Titanium, Zinc and Barium. I can estimate the time of manufacture date of propylene plastics by their trace element concentrations from these additives. Cheers, and yes I am a chemist.
I can see how maybe that could make two shades of blue but not blue and green. That just has to be up to what color plastic the buy and cast in.
Fascinating video. Thank you. As a child Atlantic were a definite avoid. Somehow, they were just not good enough for the Wargaming Table. So, it is good to see what we were not spending our pennies on.
Thanks. They are a lot easier to appriciate as an adult then they were as a kid.
Just wait until you see some of the soldier sets.
Cool stuff 😎
GOOD VIDEO SIR,ALL MY BROTHER AND I COLLECTED THE ATLANTIC IN 1/72 SCALE. THE ONLY 1/32 SCALE WE GOT WAS CUSTER 7TH. CAV. TAKE CARE
Another remarkable video. I believe I've said it earlier in one of your other videos or shorts - you should start a museum. I wonder how many other collectors could start one... Overall quality reminds me why I had chosen for Airfix and a few Matchbox figure sets instead of Atlantic. I cannot remember how widespread Atlantic's availability was in the Netherlands in the 1970s, though it seems Atlantic had more additional soft plastic guns than Airfix had. Btw way the English subtitles say ''Deutsche Africa Corps"' which should be Deutsche Afrika Korps of course.
I don´t think I have nearly enough of a wide collection for a museum. And that seem like a lot of work :)
The subtitles are auto generated by RUclips. Guess the transaltion AI is not a history buff lol.
As a young adult I only bought a couple of the small scale sets as I found them a bit weird. Had loads of Airfix sets as they were much better. I really want to see what the vehicles look like as I dont remember seeing them for sale.
They are pretty cool in an Atlantic kinda way.
Interesting color variants...I remember the panzergranadier to be blue
Similar to the 7 cavalry ones ...
Even the sets of soldiers come in different colors.
It´s truly a weird decision by Atlantic.
As a child of the 70s I just had Airfix and matchbox. Don't remember these at all. Did they release in the UK?
I don´t know if they were ever sold in the UK. Here in Sweden I don´t think they were. But sometimes smaller importers and distributors only sold in a smaller region. When we used to go to the south of Sweden in the summers there were a lot of toys that my local toy store did not have.
I think I had the sailor set of soldiers in dark blue. They were 'sort of' 1:32 scale - would have been a foot taller than Matchbox and Airfix 1:32 scale soldiers in real life.
Never played with them much. Beside being too big I could never convince myself of a believable battle set up between them and the rest of my soldiers.
You could certainly buy some Atlantic sets in the UK in the past
Great fun as always.
I've got anti aircraft gun in dark blue.
A school friend gave me it back in 70s. I didn't realise what it was or who made it till I started watching you !
Going to keep look out for atlantic.
Their sets look really cool.
Keep filming 🎥.
Another one hooked on Atlantic :)
Just never realised how much they did..
I had those AA set in the smaller scale
The anti air thing in green could be a capture one
For sure. That`s probably how would have thought about it if I had it as a kid.
Did the molds survive?
Not sure. There is a guy that are doing recasts of the Wild West 1/32 figures. But I’m not sure if that’s from the original moulds
@@toysoldiernostalgiathere seem to be some divers that look very similar to the Atlantic ones on ebay as well that may be recasts
Interesting problem, the Atlantic molds. The keyword to that question (one of the keywords, at least) is "Nexus", a company who purchased many Atlantic molds, including the "revolutions" series. I bought a "Russian revolution" set by Nexus many (oh, so many) years ago... here are some maybe useful links, maybe not, ...
www.atlanticmania.com/EN/Storia.htm
imagorecensio.blogspot.com/search/label/Atlantic
Has there never been decals with the sets?
Not that I`m aware of.
I need to teach back what I had ...for sure the aircraft carrier
Estoy totalmente de acuerdo,además conozco la historia contada por el mismo escultor que trabajaba para la antigua esci y italeri y es un genio luego ha creado figuras de las mejores del mundo pero solo hizo lo que le mandaba el director comercial de atlantic en esa epoca que siempre se compara con airfix que es una fábrica de maquetas y el elemento histórico siempre fue por delante,sin embargo atlantic su propósito era crear soldados de"juguete" no se pretendía purismo en los detalles históricos uniformologia etc,conservo una foto del escultor en su taller en Italia.
Would you be available to do a livestream on my show? Trying to get a bunch of toy soldier guys together for 19 June
That sounds like fun. Can you DM me (Don´t know if you can on RUclips)?
You could probably slap the flak gun on the CTS or Airfix Panzer IV body after removing the turret for a more authentic look
Wirbelwind flak tank 😊
Me pregunto por que a veces atlantic hacia vehiculos tan esotericos o de fantasia como el antiaereo-bañera aleman a remolque o el blindado Nato que es el shado copia de dinky con una radio del tamaño de una catedral sin embargo el sherman y el t34 /85 eran correctos de escala pequeña y el ontos no estaba mal ysin embargo a veces te sorprendian desagradablemente ,el lanza 13:42 misiles pasa la prueba por parecerse a un rapier ingles.
I don´t know if anyone has the info on who sculpted these or who made the design decisions.
But as there are lots of great figures and models out there I don´t mind Atlantic being a bit funky.
Makes them fun to collect.
Have you got the original Airfix Africa Corp with the 20mm/37mm cannon and crew on 1/72 scale
Is that a scale model?
Stay young at heart
Would you reupload your old Airfix review?
I`m gonna make new ones on all those sets. I didn`t like how I did those videos.
@@toysoldiernostalgia Would you also review BMC toys, TImmee toys, and Armies in Plastic?
Take the wheels off the cart for the base of the AA gun 😂
Hhhm I guess I realy am a moron. That´s of course is a great solution.
Do you have any sets of soldiers from a company called "expeditionary force"? Sometimes called "x force". They are very detailed and even the boxes are cool. For example the ww2 us infantry box is a olive green with a white star. And the Japanese sets have a rising sun flag with katana sword. I have a good many sets from this company and use them for a ww2 combat strategy game me and a few friends play. Some pieces require using glue though. The heads and arms are separated and require being glued in place but you can mix up the different heads and limbs and weapons so that most soldiers will be unique instead of all looking exactly the same. You would probably enjoy the sets from that company. They are around 20-30 dollars for a squad sized unit,sets vary from 9 to 12 soldiers in each set. I'm not sure what other time periods or wars they make sets of but they have many nice ww2 sets. They are all 1/32 scale. Also does anyone know a company that makes US and North Korean/Chinese commie figures in 1/32 scale? Plenty of ww2 era figures around but I want to put together some sets from the Korean war era 1950-1953.
Never heard of that company. Sounds more like scale model soldiers then toy soldiers.
I´ll have to check them out. Thanks.
@@toysoldiernostalgia Yes, I know such a breeder. Singapore. I have a review on a set of such toy soldiers on my channel. These are game figures made of material similar to Airfix. Very interesting figures for various historical periods.
Hello from Germany
I have around 50 1/72 Figures boxen. Are you maybe interested ?
Don’t need any 1/72 right now. Thanks for asking.
They should be painted.
It´s just that you spend all that time prepping the soft plastic and then painting just to have the paint chip when you handle them. This soft plastic is pretty terrible for oainting and I have kinda given up on it.
@@toysoldiernostalgiafound that as a kid. Nothing mde paint stay on them. There may be something these days that adheres and flexes enough but i doubt it.
There´s still nothing that works@@cyberleaderandy1
From George. How about a multy coloured version blue and green. It seems that was sometimes the way. While I had some Airfix soldiers I did also collect lots of the copied versions of German infantry that were green. But they were found easier at local shop in a plastic bag. Also cheaper priced. I'd buy them from a chemist strangely. Places close to where I lived in 1970. Others would be in news agency.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️
I would very much like to know where all these items i can find to buy some. That is an incredibly fantastic collection. I'm amazed by this. I had nothing as close to that type of collection ever in toy soldiers.definetly hardly a vehicle or weaponry.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️
Ebay is your best bet :)
@@toysoldiernostalgia Hello from George. I had a look on eBay and I did see the latest Airfix soldiers but not all. Just the German infantry, American, British, German Afrika Korps, German mountain troops maybe once of those. I've seen other collections of mixed soldiers for sale and some very poor moulded figures. But your right eBay where I do my purchases from anyway is the way to go. Have you seen a brand called Mars? I think they're made in Ukraine. I've purchased from Ukraine but only model kits. They do have a variety of toy soldiers in 1/72 and 1/32 scale. All the best to you.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️
@@George-pp2hr I have heard of Mars but haven´t gotten any of their stuff yet.
@@toysoldiernostalgia Hanomak brand is the latest German Elite troops or platoon I've just seen. The details are better than Airfix and each figure is different. No doubles by the looks of it. But I'm sure you've seen them or know about them already.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️