Unboxing A Huge Haul Of Airfix Vintage Toy Soldiers....And A Few Other Airfix Things.
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- Опубликовано: 15 апр 2024
- I don´t think it gets much better then this when it comes to vintage toys and Airfix. There´s both ho-oo 1/72 and 1/32 scale in there.
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I made the wife watch this, now she gets my Airfix obsession.
Glad I could be of service :)
You lucky sod. My wife hates my hobby. She wants to waste our money on food, holidays, cars and our children. Really! Women can be so selfish at times.
@@tomsenior7405 women need to have a serious look at their priorities
Perfect. I am 5 years old again.
I wish my dad hadn't chucked away my video camera, I was going to set up my own plastic army men channel. Did you know that our royal guards are actually real soldiers, not just ceremonial guards. They carry loaded live guns and can respond to incidents. Many an unfortunate tourist have found out the hard way!
@@ronaldmcdonald8303 My RSM was a former Guardsman. He told some fascinating stories. He was a career soldier and it showed. He was respected by the lads and trusted by the Officers. I miss him every day.
@@tomsenior7405 I wanted to join the army when I was 16, but no-one would help me be recruited. I'm autistic so probably won't have been accepted. My brother served in Afghanistan. I'm sorry to hear you lost your friend. I once met an Iraq veteran who I had a very interesting conversation with. He told me that an entire squad of Iraqis surrender to one of his friends because they knew they weren't going to win the battle. I disgusted when I heard about the prisoner abuse though, but I generally support British soldiers.
@@ronaldmcdonald8303 I am sure you would have made a damn fine soldier. Maybe it is for the best that you didn't join at 16. Boy soldiers used to get a lesser deal when I was a young man. Even at 18 the pay wasn't great either. I started on £37.50 a week, meanwhile my old school friends were making at least double that.
The job itself was challenging. The training was first rate, it had to be. As a lifetime experience I felt it was worthwhile, but one has to live with some painful memories also. Kudos to your brother, you must be proud of him. I would love to see your videos one day. Perhaps you can invest in a decent camera and start producing material to show online. Good luck with that and best wishes.
@@tomsenior7405 My boyfriend at school became a soldier and even served in Afghanistan, I am very proud of my brother too. I just wish I could have proved everyone wrong. My life has been quite difficult in the past. I never passed my GCSES until 3 years ago. I didn't get the opportunities after I was moved school. You seem like a very genuine man my friend!
The little figure bags are cool. I've never seen them.
I had the forts.
Such a haul! Imagine getting that bundle for Christmas as a youngster!
I think that would make for a very spoiled kid.
@@toysoldiernostalgia heh, you're not wrong!
Your enthusiasm for the world of Airfix is infectious bro. I had to watch this before I turned in for the night. 👏🥇
I know I get easily carried away. Love this stuff.
Great collection, and those books are rare and don't come cheap. Time to get up into the attic and go through the airfix collection that I've been taking from home to home since 1987 😃
Absolutely look forward to every unboxing you do as it sends me back to the 70s every time 😊 I had the pontoon bridge as a kid. It was a pain to get the side pieces to stay in place as they only connected by small pegs in holes at each end.
It´s a lot of fun making them.
Great childhood memories with Airfix and Matchbox figures (1/76 & 1/32) and their kits, plus those small WWII comic books and the magazine PILOT!
Greetings from a Swede in Glasgow! 🍻
GOOD VIDEO AND HAUL SIR,THE AIRFIX FORTS KITS ARE GREAT FOR WARGAMING AND DIORAMAS.STILL HAVE THE ONES I GOT 50 YEARS AGO. TAKE CARE
Some of your stuff blows me away. Great collection!
Thanks :)
Can't tell ya to many times how much I appreciate your videos. takes me back to a better time, really helps me out as I deal with some depression. Thank you for sharing your passion and brighting up our days my friend.
Glad you like them and that they are of some help. Take care my friend.
During the 1970s when i was about 8 an older guy split his massive airfix model collection between me and a friend. Thought i'd gone to heaven, mainly aircraft all beautifully made and painted, over a 100 of them
Not bad :)
I love your videos - You show things I remember having, or playing with. A lot I can remember where, and with whom I was playing those games of imagination.
Thank you. 👍👍👍
By the way, that cowboys set was updated to become the 'High Chaparral' set, to tie in with the great TV series of the same name.
That 'Fort Sahara' kit, is one I wish Airfix would reintroduce. I've had several - one I made into a WW2 German outpost; another, I made into a fortress from the 'Star Wars' universe, and yet another, I made into a picturesque ruin. All gone. I'd like another, just to make, paint, and weather, properly.
The Star Wars fortress was a great idea.
There´s even a wild west themed theme park here in Sweden called High Chaparall.
I went there as kid and I have been with my son 2 or 3 times.
brilliant i love you enthusiasm
Thanks :)
Very interesting ,started buying some 00 figures this week , that book looks very good, thanks for sharing 👍
Wish more milennials like me were into collecting these. I was born in the 90s, and I missed lots of cool toys.
Look on the bright side -- you may outlive us old guys reliving our childhoods and be able to complete your collection in your old age!
Fantastic haul and some stuff there I hadn’t seen before. Looking forward to your next videos 👍
Cool stuff 😎 thanks for showing 👍
Amazing that the boxes are in such great condition looks like they were never used
I have a few like that in 1/32 that´s even still in plastic. Pretty incredible.
The very first airfix toy I ever had was the Guards Band. It was in 1968 and I was 4. I remember them being red and I remember biting off all of their heads. Good grief!
Lol it seem like your not the only one doing that. Get the same comment from time to time.
Good video 📹 I've owned most of these figures at one time or another. Nice to see your stash, i still have some figures but alas very few boxes. I found the wagon train set to go with the indians my son managed to buy. Airfix make some nice models.
Loved watching this. My childhood wish list
I am very very jealous Sir, on the book a looking for so long, but again a great haul, have fun Sir.
Thanks :)
As a kid I really liked my Airfix. And I'm sure that my mother threw all away. And I had a lot of them also had a lot of Matchbox and Hot Wheels those may have been stolen by another kid but I wouldn't put it past dear old mom
Well I can understand why parents throw away toys when their kids don´t play with them anymore. All the toys I had as a realy young kid is gone but some of the later I still have.
I've been looking for the book for a long time too. Unfortunately it is not available in Germany and is always sold out online. Congratulations on your purchase.
I´m very happy I finaly got it.
ebay have got involved in the shipping business and a lot of people in UK and US seem to ship this way - it means the seller ships the parcel to an ebay mail hub (could be in the same country as the seller) first, then the parcel is relabelled by ebay, and finally shipped to the buyer. This extra step adds more time for the buyer to receive it, and costs more money for the buyer than regular mail (as ebay needs to cover their labour/service costs)
Yes it made it almost impossible for me in Sweden to buy things from Ebay in the US. Strange decision as market place and groups on Ebay are growing.
It great to see these vintage sets, I have some of them. As for the airfix trains kits, dapol still makes them. I am not sure if airfix had another British company mainline to do the ready to run trains for them. I know dapol had most of moulds for ready to run models and kit but I know Hornby had some of the moulds. It get very complicated to know who had what and when.
I´m gonna have to do a deep dive into all that train stuff one day.
I think you might like airfix lol😊, great video and great memories I had airfix and matchbox sets but the majority of my armies were Atlantic and esci sunce i was born in italy in 73'
Yup I realy like Airfix but also most old toys in general. :)
Atlantic is another huge favorite. Just started collecting their Far West Series in 1/32.
@toysoldiernostalgia that's a great series I had ho series of that line...
Hi, I just discovered you and am binging on episodes- I love your videos! I used to collect 1/72 Airfix when I was young. I also had lots of Matchbox too but mostly were by another company which I forget the name of. I'll remember it and let you know. I'm in the US so maybe it was only here? Anyway, keep up making this great videos so we can all enjoy our youth once again!
Thanks man that´s very kind of you. Were the other brand also 1/72? Was this in the 70s or 80s?
They were by the ERTL company and the brand was ESCI. This was the mid-80s I looked it up on ebay. They were american made 1/72. We also had ones from MPC which were HO scale. I really liked the 1/32 scale Matchbox but they seemed harder to find here, same goes for those incredible playsets you filmed, we didn't have any Matchbox playsets around where I grew up. The ERTL company did make playsets but I never had any. Funny enough, I had an English friend who had one- it was a civil war playset, really cool! Have you ever seen an Airfix 1/72 Astronauts box? I had those when I was very young and always loved them.
Again, such interesting videos you must be very wealthy spending all this money on toys but your choice it’s so interesting watching you open the boxes thank you very much
Thanks. I just have a regular jobb and do some side work a few times a year with the swedish armed forces.
I just try to spend my money wisely. Don´t buy much clothes or stuff in general and almost never eat out.
I go to the grocery store early in the morning and buy meat about expire so it´s half price. My lunches are free as I work in school and eat with the students. Ride my bicycle to work to save on gas money.
Just little things like that so I can spend my money on things I realy like.
I have had some interesting conversations with my wife about the regular deliveries of boxes to our house. "Why can't you just go drinking like a normal bloke?"
@@pathwaystomodernity7716 that joke about "I hope when I die my wife don´t sell my toy soldiers for what I told her they cost"
"Grandpa....why are you crying. Is it because you were in the company of heroes during WW2?" "No, it is because I am looking at my little heroes when I was at your age in RUclips"
LOL
Airfix did a version of the cowboys set to tie in with the TV series High Chapperal with some added figures ,quite rare now I believe
Yes I think there were 4 extra figures. I don´t have it yet. There´s a theme park in Sweden with a wild west theme named after that tv show. It´s a lot of fun and I went there as a kid and I have been a few times now with my son.
if I was going time travel some 45 years back, and I got all these, I'm not going out of the house for one week. Give me the proper paints, add another week to that.
He should be making a distinction between HO and HO/OO, HO always at a standard 13/16” height, and HO/OO a scale determined by the brow ridge of the figure. His truck in/out of the box was smallish, probably HO, and can’t wait to see the Duck…
These were are all regarded as toys, but later became semi-serious military figs. I had everything he was handling once, can’t say I was excited about the Guards Band or the Cowboys and Indians, but never saw canoes or the 105 gun…
The scale thing is a mess. We always used to call them 1/72 when I was a kid and it seem most people still do even though the boxes says ho-oo.
Ho is 1/87 and was used by german model train makers and oo is 1/76 used by british model train makers. Then somewhere along the line people started refering to them as 1/72. Probably because they kinda fit with all the 1/72 scale models Airfix did.
superb stuff, i have a great book on airfix by arthur ward, it's a celebration of 50 years of airfix kits but it also covers toy soldiers and ready made models, i haven't looked at it for years but it is there on my bookshelf and visible!
I think I have that book as well. Have a few written by Arthur Ward.
As usual great video thanks 👍
No problem :)
The 1/33 figure bags were the bottom of the barrel.
I had the Cowboys and Indians in the mid 60’s and they were some of my most favourite toys. Keeping in mind all the Cowboys TV shows were on at the time. As well I also had the Wagon Trail and US Cavalry sets which I played with all together.
There´s was so many great TV-shows on the wild west theme. In Sweden we still have a theme park inspired by High Chaparall.
I wish Airfix made the Guards Colour Party in 1/32.
That would have realy cool. But I guess companies like Britains made plenty in 1/32. Painted though.
Watching this while my wife is having girls' night out 😅
Wondering who´s having a better time :)
Great video thanks for sharing ! you must get this question alot, what are your plans for the future for your collection? will you or do you have anyone to sell it off for you ? I am asking not offering lol ✌Canada✌
I have no clue realy. I just want to keep collecting more Airfix and get a lot more of what they made that was not just toy soldiers.
Maybe if Ebay pays enough eventually I want to rent a space to be able to display everything better. If people want to come by and grab a beer and talk toys that would be fun.
Another cool video. Thanks. I love living vicariously through your unboxing videos. I'd never seen an Airfix Thunder Car before. Would love to see it in action.
I collect similar toys. I thought that I had completed my collection of boxed Airfix HO-OO poly vehicles. As far as I know, only eight grey toys were issued; The Tiger, Panther, Elephant and Halftrack in grey only, and then T-34, DUKW, Landing craft and Truck variants, also available in green. The grey T-34 and landing craft are quite common, the DUKW and Truck less so.
I was at the NEC toy fair this month and one dealer told me about a green variant of the Elephant. My heart fell. That's going to be expensive! Do you think I've missed any variants and do you think the green Elephant is a myth.....?
I've nearly completed my collection of Matchbox 1/76 scale figures and orange/purple vehicle kits. Ping me if you need any information on those. 👍
I have never heard of a green Elephant but maybe there was one. I´m realy no expert on Airfix I just collect and learn on the way.
I´m trying to save up to go to either NEC or Sandown. Sandown is easier to get to flying in from Sweden but NEC seem like a better fair.
Are the kits with dioramas the orange/purple?
Yes the orange and purple vehicle kits have dioramas. The purple ones were smaller and cheaper.
I think NEC was 550 or 600 dealers. Sandown is about 500, so should still be good. See you there!
Elefant only in grey NOT in green (would like to be proved otherwise! but in collecting Airfix for 20+ yrs I have NEVER seen one so I doubt if they exist)
@@rossobantam Thank Christ for that. Mission accomplished.
❤❤❤😮😮😮 wow...
It was pretty darn cool opening all these :)
Did you see on eBay they are selling the two airfix boxed play sets for 750.00 dollars.
You mean the two Combat Packs? I saw those and the price is way to high for the condition they are in.
I wouldn´t mind a having a couple more of those but not at that price.
@@toysoldiernostalgia I was thinking 700.00 for both would be about the right price.
Dapol continues to produce some of the old airfix rail related model kits.
Do you know which ones?
A huge number of them as far as I can tell. The various railside buildings, the engine shed (which was always one of my favourites). The footbridge, signal box, level crossing, platform Accessories ticket box, some of the rolling stock and the engines. It seems like dapol must have got the kit moulds. I am not sure but after airfix's late entry to the actual model train set scene they sold that bit of the business to palitoy and it became mainline trains who got the ready made rolling stock and electric engine's. I think another company maybe helijan got some of that eventually. The airfix railway stuff is not highly sought after by model railway collectors. There seems to be a lot of a small number of those models. In particular the large prairie tank engine. But I loved the kits, they were less standardised and samey than the stuff produced by the model railway companies like hornby and Lima. I can send you pictures of the current dapol packaging but it's also easy to find online It's basically all the old airfix line done in grey. I have some of the airfix in yellow in the blister packs which were early 70's I think?
@@pathwaystomodernity7716 thanks for the info. I guess Airfix trains is another rabbit hole I will dive into pretty soon.
I have both those realy hard to find train sets with Dr.X and Wild West.
Want to build an old school lay out with only Airfix stuff.
Back in the day the airfix railway building models were much cheaper than the dedicated model train company equivalents.
Just come across an old airfix train controller if you want it I can try and get it for you?
I have completed sets of 1/72 figures type 2 and 3 boxed on spures ,was going too send to auction but anything you are looking for let me know
Always interested. drop me an email on toysoldiernostalgia@gmail.com.
Cheers
Hi, I have a book from a Norwegian autor called "Airfix mobiliserer" 130 pages, only for figures, do you know about that book?
No never heard of. Interesting. What´s the authors name and I´ll try to look for it?
I almost didn't recognise you, beard-less!!
The beard comes and goes depending on the mood :)
@@toysoldiernostalgia 😃👌
I wonder if AI is up to the job of filling in the First Edition HO/OO Scale Box Artwork. Somehow I doubt it.
I´m thinking about trying AI for that.
@@toysoldiernostalgia That would make for an interesting watch. I would like to see something like that. An expensive alternative would be to commission an artist to recreate the images in their entirety. Whilst I personally find the Blue Edge Box artwork more appealing, there is a certain charm to the First Edition Window Box artwork. Whatever you do, I right with you.
Comment se procurer et acheter ces colis très intéressants. Merci.
Ebay.
Un-Du would have saved, and prevented the damage!
What is that?
@@toysoldiernostalgia I tried passing this along and thought the information had been seen - as a response to your video showing the car race track with the misplaced stickers, I recommended looking into a product called "Un-Do" which can safely lift/remove almost all adhesive-based tapes, stickers, decals from a surface. It is safe and does not stain. Great for collectors to remove tape and stickers from cardboard, plastic, or any surface. A bonus is that they can be reused after removing and lifting off stickers! The adhesive re-tacks once the Un-Du evaporates, allowing you to reposition them. You can look up many videos demonstrating it being used. Find it online, available from online outlets