Airfix British Paratroops is another vintage toy soldier classic!!
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- This set is another Airfix and Ron Cameron master piece.
There´s a few things in this set that was the only time Airfix did this and there´s also a real bummer with it as well.
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I got an idea do a vid on the guy who sculptured them. Whoever he was he brought so much happiness to thousands on thousands of young boys. Lord I miss the 70s
I have been trying to get info on both Niblett, Cameron and Stadden but there isn’t all that much on the internet. I need to try and find books on those three sculptors.
I hear you hard to believe it so long ago
I remember the British Support Troops with the 2-piece Vickers gun and the separate, sitting machine-gunner!
Airfix has always been my favourite my own personal fav is Afrika Corps & 8th Army...👍🏻
Those are two amazing sets :)
I always liked the British infantry support group and the German alpine troops. Great stuff!👍
@@ROBERTANDERSON-f2f british support was my first or second with german army. German mountain were my last full set.
@thebruehlofspandau1665 I think it was all the kit you'd get with the support group that appealed to me, all those bits! And mortars! I has GIs and Japs too as well as the obligatory Jerries!
As a Kid, I was a HUGE fan of the movie, "A Bridge too Far". So naturally this was my favorite 1/32 set!
I had these when I was young. I loved the guy throwing the grenade. I played a lot with these guys. Parachuting into battle by dropping them from my hand.
I did that too!
I use to tease my sister, by lining up my soliers and vehicles outside her bedroom door. Then with a flourish I would open up her door. Scream Attack, throw my paratroopers in to her room and then start moving my troops and tanks in to her room. all the while giving orders and moving my guys in different directions as we tried to take over her room. She... yelling at me, would drop down to her knees and start pushing my toys out of her room. Eventually I would yell "retreat! retreat!". She still brings it up to this day.
Ron Cameron's 1/32 paras are one of THE nicest toy soldier sculpts I've ever seen. Bren gunner, high port, Kneeling sniper, sten gun and grenade and officer with map case are all design classics. Even the radio operator is cool.
The interesting thing is that the other two paratroop sets was sculpted by Charles Stadden. Same great details and figures, specially the US paras.
@@toysoldiernostalgia US Para sculpt is right up there too. Always liked the fallschirmjagers as well. I remember a British Para being interviewed about the poor quality Argentinian conscripts he faced in the mountains of the Falklands. He said "give me a platoon of fallschirmjager... and we'd still be holding those mountains to this day" 😂
Fantastic. I read Cornelius Ryan books as a young child. The Paras have been an inspiration to little boys of all ages for donkey's. When I read 'A Bridge Too Far' and finally saw the film, the Paras were raised to new heights in my view. I bloody love the Airfix set. Excellent sculpting. Thank you for sharing your thoughts about this set. Wonderful. Cheers.
So there was a book before the film? In that case I need to get it :)
@@toysoldiernostalgia I can recommend the book. I read it on a very long train journey when I was around 13 years of age. "The Longest Day" is a similarly decent piece of history meets journalism, set in print. One of my favourite scenes in 'Bridge' involves John Frost and the surrender response. Sadly this was pure fabrication.
I fell off my chair laughing when you propped the Para up against the wall. That is exactly what I used to do!
As for your Forward Command Post; I am currently restoring 5 of them. I got them in bits and pieces through eBay for beggar all cash. They are coming along fine and look new. Thanks again.
The British Para commander one of my all time favourite Airfix figures as a kid. Thanks for the video.
He always reminded me of Frank Spencer!
My memory was that they didn’t have a character with a peit gun. Would have been good to see that and perhaps a character carrying an umbrella.
loved mine
hi brought back my childhood you did
ps the grenade thrower yes he would have had a bayonet as the sten was capable of having it attached on the mk2 sten
Memory unlocked!!!
About 40 years ago I was on vacation with my parents and they got me a bag of army men. The the figures were not as detailed as these with variance regarding their helmets however, the poses were identical. Yes the sniper was my favorite. Oddly enough, the one I had had a helmet instead of a beret. The beret would have been much cooler.
As always, excellent thank you ! 😊
I had the assault set with the Cromwell tank and half track. I always liked the pill boxes that shot out the discs and the officer of the paras always reminded me of Frank Spencer!
Ooooh, Bettay
The art works were brilliant.
I remember the 1/72 Acw, Napoleonic, celts and Roman’s, First World War, the British commandos etc.
Fantastic stuff
GREAT SET AND REVIEW,HAVE ABOUT 100 OF THESE TROOPERS,GOT THEM IN 77.TAKE CARE
Great set. Pity they never duplicated it in 1/72.
Agreed.
Esci did a short run of hard plastic 1:72. They pretty much copied the Airfix Paras among others. They are kinda kits. Hard to find and quite expensive but lovely figures.
Hasegawa did the same with the US infantry in 1:72.
@@brucemurray9127 I wonder if either ever paid any royalties to Airfix. Maybe not but I doubt that Airfix ever paid Herald/Britains for their Infantry Combat Group "copy" of their Khaki/Lilliput soldiers either.
I remember having the radioman in grey in the late 80s, found him alone on the street or so if i recall correctly and added him to my "army". He was most likely a Hong Kong bootleg. I then had maybe 10-15 or so of the other paras in green, these came in one of those ultra cheap combat sets you could find in grocery stores back then, again illegal Hong kong copies.
I remember getting a box for Christmas when I was about 10.
Best Christmas present I ever got.
At about 20, I started playing Avalon Hills game Squad Leader.
At 40, I was playing Battlefronts PC game Combat Mission.
This was one of their best sets as I remember altough maybe to few poses.
You were lucky living in the midwest of the States. You could only rarely find those miniatures. Most of the time it was 1/72 scale in those, not 1/32. Model kits were different then it was 1/35 scale in Tamiya, Monogram, etc.
Thanks for the look back!
Luckily growing up in Sweden we had a lot of Airfix available.
Great set, and one of my favorite. Excellent sculpting with lots of fine detail. The only drawback to this set is that you get two guys just walking around with their guns. It would have been nice to have the guy with the Bren Gun in a shooting pose, than just walking around it with it in a leisurely style.
@@svavelvinter this could have been easily done with more poses ;-)
Wow! So nostalgic. The British Airborne were my favourite but as you mentioned lacked figures in fighting positions. We used to mix them up with the modern British Infantry.
One of my favourites as a child along with the 8th Army and Africa corps. I now know i had the 1972 set. Thanks for that.
I never noticed at the time that the figures kneeling were snipers with telescopic sights, but in that pose i used to instinctively set them up with walls to lean on/ hide behind.
The Sten Gun actually had a spikebayonet.
I loved these sets, first job always count the men, I was only diddled once with 28 Gurkhas but when you got 30 or even 31 that was blinding! Happy days!😊
I didn´t get that many sets as kid to realize that the amount of soldiers would sometimes differ.
Great figures, and the face of the officer even looks like a typical Britain! Very well!
The sniper is one of the best airfix figure ever. I agree for the un used brend gun. When i was a kid i didnt knew the sten gun, and the granate thrower pissed me off as a position, then i understood it
I think that Bren gunner made a generation of kids frustrated lol.
Fantastic thanks for helping me relive these memories. I'm a far younger person who grew up in the 2000's but this was the first airfix set i got and i absolutely loved it. The snipers of course were amazing of which my set came with two, and I really loved the officer and radio operator. I also laughed so hard when you mentioned being annoyed by the bren gunner just walking because I absolutely related to that and it wasnt until I got my regular british infantry set where I had my two bren gunners firing from the hip. I remember I used to have a wooden jenga set and Id use them as building blocks to make bunkers and other fortifications to set them up in, such a fantastic time !! 💖
Glad you liked it 😀👍
Nice Jerry that was like a scene in ‘A Bridge Too Far’ fighting in the streets of Arnhem.
I wonder if the cover art was changed to tie-in with the film it looks like Arnhem bridge has been added to the artwork😊
The film was released in 1977, four years after the last version of box art.
@@toysoldiernostalgia Good research Jerry so it isn’t anything to do with the film then lol 😊
I always remember the snipers with the scopes, great detail and video
One of the best figures from Airfix for sure :)
This set is my favourite from Airfix, great detail and brilliant poses.
Keep them coming Jerry 👍
I try to keep a decent uploading scedule but life keeps getting in the way. I think you know how that works with the whole RUclips thing.
I´m gonna get some more Matchbox 1/76 vehicle/diorama sets. Maybe you could help me out with painting them as I think your style fit those models realy great.
@@toysoldiernostalgia I know, time is the enemy I have so much I want to build and put on RUclips but work/life is getting in the way.
Happy to come along on your Matchbox journey just let me know what I can do 👍
@@creativetimewasting great.
This was one of my favourite sets from Airfix. The office pose and the grenade thrower are really superb sculpts!! Wish I had been able to hang on to all my Airfix, Matchbox and Brittains sets from back then but thanks for keeping the memories alive with your superb videos 😊
Nice one, thank you. I had a box in these in 1972. By the way, contrary to popular myth, the purpose of the tail on a Denison smock and on subsequent DPM and MTP para smocks, was not to prevent the smock 'inflating'. Anyone who has worn a UK para smock during a parachute jump knows that the parachute harness itself makes such inflation impossible, even if one was wearing a taffeta ball gown instead of a para smock. 🙂 The tail on a correctly fitting para smock increases the wind-proofing on the ground when buttoned. Arguably, this was a design feature inspired by prototype garments designed by Windak. In practical use, many cut the tail off altogether.
Thanks. I guess I´m not the only one that didn´t know that :)
Great info.
I still have my British Paratroopers large and small in their boxes, my 1/32 are in the Target Box. In the 80s I started putting the dates on things when I bought them, ornaments, clocks, books and comics. Wish I had that habit in the 70s, it would be nice to know exactly what day I got my Airfix soldiers. Great Video
I´m the same. I wish I could remember the time and place I got many of my childhhod toys.
There´s realy only two toys that I have some kinda memory of were I got them.
Great set and review! 💪💪💪
My son uses Tan and British as British. But, then again he uses Grey and German as the Arab Alliance, and after 79 years and Godzilla movies the Japanese are allies. For the record Green Timmee are American, Dark Green WW2 style are Canadian, Light Green different WW2 are Aussies and Kiwis. Blue is SHIELD. For the Bad guys Black is Cuban, Red is North Korean, Russian is Russian, Pink is Hydra, because it's the sissy color according to him.
Holy shit, I had the '72 and '76 sets! 😆
these are actually the default toy soldier in the USA. Somehow American toy distributors decided that these were the molds that they wanted to pack for the majority of toy soldiers throughout the 90s. So if you went to the pharmacy and got a bag of toy soldiers it would usually be these guys. They used the variation without the beret and almost always excluded the radio man. As a kid I just assumed that they were Americans because they were pretty much the generic Army Men for my generation.
They are so good to do stop motion
I had a set of 1/72 paratroops, German iirc. From what I remember the set included a couple of collapsed parachutes.
These figures paint up really nice too. Plus you can use these with the Modern British infantry as conversions, just need a sharp knife, some modelling putty, plastic card, glue and patience. The stens you convert to sterlings, the Bren to an L4 Bren, the sniper stays as is, because the No4T continued in use to about 1971, then modified into 7.62 with a very different barrel profile, same scope though if memory serves. The only figures you would struggle to find a purpose for are marching rifle and firing rifle.
I had the box with the 1972 artwork. I had a castle and put the soldiers in firing positions. The ones standing were reserves. Fond memories. Thanks.
Cool set up with the castle.
I had this ones...brings back memories for sure!
Great video! I've got the full set of the 14 figure boxes. I've always been a bit surprised that they aren't more collectible as those boxes of 14 figures were only issued for one year (either 1977 of 1978 I can't remember which). I guess the target boxes are the ones most people remember so they tend to go for higher prices. I can't think of any of the Airfix figures that I didn't like, either 1/32 or HO/OO. They were all really nicely done. Britain's Deetail were always my favourite, but Airfix were so much more affordable.
This wasn't my first ever Airfix 1/32 scale figure set, but certainly one of the first. My box is also the green-in-yellow target box with the black crescent shape on the right. This was the only ''classic'' set (pre-1980s) that I ever tried to paint, with moderate success.
As usual, many gun barrels have broken off 🙁 At least I still have the set! 😊
Had these.
The only set of 1/32 troops i ever had a completely painted set of, complete with DPM smocks. After all that effort i just left the others in my collection in there plastic colour! 😊
Thanks :)
It was a great set of figures in this box. One of my favorites , alongside the US paratroops. I still have mine stored somewhere. 👍🏻
british paras were nice .. fit nicely with the modern british .
Great set 👌 and nice job man.
One of the best figures I had as a child. but I remember that they were not green in color, but beige. Between 1978 - 1983 I think. In Greece.
I think some company in Greece made copies of some Airfix sets.
Besides Paratroopers, most impressive
remembrances are British Fire Support
Group, Afrika Korps, Australian Soldiers.
Great set one of my favourites
My favorite figure was the sniper from that Target box set.
Can’t believe you got that first addition box for next to nothing I’m happy for you sometimes people get lucky. I’ve been lucky in the last month or so with the smaller boxes anyway Jerry another interesting video keep them coming please we like them specially here in the UK. 🇬🇧 😊
Top video as always
Thanks. Realy appreciate that :)
A great set, no prone figure which was very unusual for Airfix.
That’s right. I didn’t think of that.
My first set, was super drawn to that target box. I remember being pumped seeing A Bridge Too Far in 77. I was like those are my Airfix guys on that bridge. I never got an action man red devil sadly to further emulate my airborne heroes.
Excellent sir ❤
Great vid. Defo had these as a kid, in a bullseye box 😊
Thanks :)
I had this set in the 70s
I hated the Bren Gun trooper but the rest pure gems. Target 🎯 box was my era
Wonderful collection and I enjoy your knowledge and obvious love of soldiers. Great collection!
Well I don´t know as much as I would like but try and learn more all the time.
@toysoldiernostalgia you are awesome and that's that,!
@@iggystoyparadesoldierrevie1092 thanks man!!
Another good video, thanks.
Thanks man :)
the bayonet can fit on sten i think
love these videos and the airfix figures
I had over 100 Airfix toy soldiers, my mother gave them away to a school jumble (rummage) sale without even asking me.
Oooops!
With 37 pattern webbing you can mount the water bottle in the middle like the officer has but it’s very impractical due to it being hard to access 🔥
Terrific set. I have one of the target box versions 🙂
エアフィックスってなんか懐かしい！💕
I've been on Ebay and got an old McDonald's soldier and 5 tin Scottish soldiers.
Showing my age but I remember my
Dad painting my 1/32nd scale Airfix figures for me as a young child. Great figures but agree the bren gummer is a strange pose. The officer always reminds me of the film, went with my Dad to see A bridge too far when it was originally released in 1977. With it being the 80th anniversary this week will definitely be giving another watch. If you also collect 1/72nd figures I would recommend the Revell set, one of their best sets in that scale. The Airfix set in 1/72 is one of their worst and poses are nothing like the 1/32nd for some strange reason. Originally released in 1965 might be a clue why!
Just realised I have spelt Bren gunner incorrectly. Do not think he needs a dentist. Lol.
Great to hear your dad the same as mine and painted figures for you.
Hopefully one day this channel will be big enough for Airfix to get in touch. One of the first questions I have for them is if there´s any records of why the 1/32 british paras never were down sized to 1/72.
I´m gonna try to get all the Revell set one of these days.
Lol!
Nice video.
I still have the box my lost all the troops in my backyard 😢
I just looked up ITALERI PARATROOPERS & if your joined forces you'd have an awesome fighting force!
Its a defensive grenade ie ; lethal range is farther than can be thrown so you "bowl " it overarm like a cricketer and take cover .If you "toss" it you can be "no-balled" as in having your balls blown off .💥
Kind of ironic that Airfix put such effort into making officer figures so distinctive, which would be the last thing a real officer in combat would need to be.
Yes, and it didnt prevent them of getting lost or "stolen in the first hour of battle in the sandbox ...
Yes, you are observed right,
In small, the first thing of looking
for, the officers of a new kit.
When children were normal and knew how to socialize.
The bayonet fits to the MK 2 sten and bayonets were used at Arnhem,so pretty accurate. Not sure about the Sniper rifle..
As mentioned above, "A bridge too far is a strong sympathy factor for this set. I liked the set very much, it was usuable until the late seventies early 80s theatres (wild geese, falklands, until sets of moders british troops were available). sten gun and bren gun Barrels being the weeknesses, as with the commandos Australiens and gurkhas ... it was one of my last ones and it was / is great.
All poses are good. I would have liked a 15 poses set, as with all others, though ;-).
Was the 1/72 set similar or different???
They never did this set in 1/72. They used the old set that was released in 1965 and never scaled this down with some of the other sets.
i'm not shure if i ever even noticed the holster on the brengunner
I agree with every point you raised there, the only thing I could possibly add is why didn't they convert these to the smaller scale? The HO scale ones were pretty bad and these just blew them out of the water.
You´re right I forgot to mention that. And as many of the ho-oo scale sets scaled down from 1/32 had more figures I always wondered what other figures there were. Or maybe that´s the reason these never were scaled down because there was only these seven poses.
@@toysoldiernostalgia Oh, imagine if they'd added extra poses for the HO scale figures of these? Wow! a sten gunner firing, a bren gunner firing, a piat crew etc. I'm salivating at the thought, ah well we can dream.
I had (still have) the second box you showed, from '72. I don't know why, but this was always my least favorite set of figures. I was a dumb, dopey kid. I did like the box art of the guys on the bridge. I'm not sure why I didn't care for them as much as other sets. Looking at them through your eyes, I see that it's a really great set of figures. But now I'm not sure what my new least-favorite set should be!
Well I think all the sets are pretty great even the ones that are so, so. So I don´t I should set the standards lol.
I think it´s as hard to figure out least favorite as it is to figure out a favorite.
I had the 3rd box. Had several airfix boxes. US para's, Russian etc. No idea what happened with it
waterbottle can be worn on the back like that...i've seen it before on officers
Airfix. British. Paratroopers. is. Another. Vintage. Toy. Soldier
1. They made WW2 Russians in 1/76 with maxim machine guns. I was actually angry they didn't make them in 32.
2. I used to integrate 1/32 Afrika Korps with my Lotus Esprit Bond car in the same game. I had zero interest in Catherine Bach and saw her inclusion as pointless.
🤘🤘
These, or knockoffs were plentiful everywhere in the States. Sadly gone in favor of modern designs. As far as I know these were the only toy soldiers with a sniper.
Excellent video and very timely in terms of the anniversary of the battle. Along with the Afrika Korps and the 8th Army, this was my favourite set. It's a pity that Airfix did not produce them in 1/72 scale as well. What is the building at 7:49?
That`s the ”strong point” building from Airfix.
@toysoldiernostalgia Thanks, another blast from the past! Quite difficult to obtain now I would imagine. Do you do a podcast on the Desert Outpost?
@@stephenhunt3200 I´ll do a video on the three 1/32 building sets one of these days (one is not realy a building but a bridge/check point)
@@toysoldiernostalgia Look forward to it.
Why did it take till 1980 for the release on British Infantry
I had almost grown too old to play with the set by the time the set came out
Who knows. There´s very little written on the 1/32 scale sets. Much more on the ho-oo scale.
@@toysoldiernostalgia you would of thought that it would of been one of the first sets to come out … but maybe Airfix thought the 8th army would be too similar 🤷🏻♂️🙂
Have you guys seen the current set? Their faces have lost all its features. Its like someone put a hot iron over it and melted the face features. The quality of the plastic seems to be of a lower grade too. I am not sure if I got a defective pack or its the current standard now.
I´m gonna have to have a look at my new set to see.
@@toysoldiernostalgia ok thanks. If it's not what I described can you please reply so I can get a replacement?
My little brother bought them in early '70s, the sculpts, for those times were very good, but the poses were mostly disappointing. Pratically 1/3 of the box were....walking! No one was firing his Sten/Bren, no PIAT, a lost opportunity. Moreover Airfix should've remade their 1/72 paras with a new mold, as they did with German infantry, DAK, 8th army & Foreign Legion, using the 1/32 sets as base.
What about the Matchbox officers! Better? Worse? 😃
Matchbox didn´t do a British Paratrooper set :)
@@toysoldiernostalgia Oops... I'm watching too many of your vids. Meant to post it on "Airfix 1970s Vintage Toy Soldier Magic!! All 17 1/32 Scale Officers!" 😁
I always see the cheap low detail knockoffs of this set, the og will always be the best.
The sniper is always pointing downwards on the knockoffs to for some reason.
Different box .
Not sure what you mean?!
Do you have a set of ww2 german ski troops?
Yes I do. I did a video on that set.
What's the music?
Gymnopédie by Erik Satie.
A Bridge too far
On the Rotisserie?
???
@@toysoldiernostalgia turntable for your display, a rotisserie is for roasting meat, like chicken. Just being helpful not criticising. Love your videos.....thanks for the good work
@@rudithedog7534 ah I get it :)
That's great. At least I have those British paratroopers in Airfix and Revell. But not those boxes. Airfix Paras are very well made for their time. The Revell are so so. But you can mix and match. Both almost same size even though the Revell are 1/35 scale. But Airfix is the best. Good show.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️🙂
I’m trying to collect more and more of other manufacturers then Airfix. The Revell ones they are not a copy of Airfix?
@@toysoldiernostalgia Revell only 15 pieces there kind of similar but the details not as good as Airfix. The radio operator is ok there's a bren machine gunner firing, another firing with a sten, a running with rifle and buyonet fixed, rifleman standing, the kneeling one is better, a guy throwing grenade holding Sten out in left hand, commander kneeling with right hand up signalling I think, a laying down rifleman legs right over left, a para collecting his parachute and a container rifle supply. How's that for a description. If I can work out how to show pictures I'd show them. Amongst all there's also an Italeri Para with a sten but missing the cartridge part. Don't know where the rest have vanish to. Not bad for Italeri. But the Airfix Detail is much more crisp.👍🇭🇲🦘✌️
@@toysoldiernostalgiaActually my previous comment was too much. To your question if Revell is a copy of Airfix answer is yes and no. There's resemblance of each figure. Revell detail is not as sharp as Airfix but not to bad either. Italeri looked kind of like Airfix as the one figure I have the detail is ok. But no ammunition on the sten machine gun.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️
@@George-pp2hr join the Facebook group and share the pictures there.
@@toysoldiernostalgia Unfortunately I'm not keen on Facebook. Id rather through RUclips just got to figure out how.🤫🤔🇭🇲✌️