Good to see the love for Matchbox here. They were a breath of fresh air in the 70s, especially the tracks. They also had two variants on the decals - useful for pimping up the Airfix polythene vehicles! I still have my original Firefly which I repainted for the Irish Guards in the early 80s. Best of all, they were often sold in newsagents, which meant I could scam my dad on Sundays too.
Nice. I remember them from the 1970s. I was a very lucky boy, because, my dad used to deliver raw materials to the MB factory/warehouse, I'd go with him "on the lorry" sometimes, AND.....the factory manager got to hear I was waiting patiently in the cab and bring me a couple of free kits each time👍✌️😊😲💜💜
I still have this kit in my display cabinet, as all other Matchbox AFVs I built in the ‘80ies. Wonderful stuff. Clearly they know at Revell what to rerelease.
Nice to see this kit again, I made a lot of those Matchbox "diorama kits" back in the 70's when I was a kid. Maybe I'll start collecting them again... And yes I do remember those tracks being make like that while other brands insisted on using pins to melt with a hot screwdriver... ideal for a 10 yo of course.
I will just deciding on what airbrush to decide on getting because I want to practice on smaller ones before I purchase and build that 1/24 Airfix spitfire.
I remember building this kit by Matchbox back in the 1970's. I can remember not thinking much of that bridge, I wouldn't fancy driving a Sherman onto that. I'm in my 70's now and haven't built a kit in more than 30 years. I do have a few kits around though, I bought them for my son when he was young. He unfortunately didn't have the aptitude for kit building. I love watching kit building videos though, I find them very calming to watch. I will subscribe, it was nice to be taken back in time.
It is new that Revell call the series 'first diorama', but they have had many of these old Matchbox kits in the range in the past years. I built 4 of them since 2020, as a kid I had 10 from Matchbox. Lovely kits.
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That looks a good buy. I bought most of the Revell repops 2 or 3 years ago for about 8 or 9 pounds each. On inspection the moulds have lasted well with very little flash. Peter Oxley has done a box opening of most of the Matchbox AFVs on his channel.
It is good to see these old Matchbox kits coming back. Their armour range was the best on the market in the 1970s. All the kits had injection moulded, not vac-form, bases. The smaller kits, such as the Sherman Firefly, were moulded in two colours. This one was green and brown. The larger kits were in three colours. Matchbox used this method of joining tracks from the start. Much better than the other brands, which needed a heated screwdriver to seal them.
I made this kit back when I was 14. I can still remember that I enjoyed building it, but totally ignored the diorama base... Your review has partly tempted me to make this again, but those rubber tracks? Even good ones are not my thing
Takes me back to saving my pocket money in the midb70s...buying matchbox kits from Higher St Budeaux post office near where I lived. Loved every one, especially the 2 or 3 colour kits. Went together better than airfix...but the few revell kits I did then were absolutely terrible. Big gaps in fit lines for instance.
Some of the old 70s kit like the Italeri ESCI reboxes and these matchbox ones are pretty good value for money even if they don't match up to the quality of today
Loved building Matchbox kits as a kid I still have the Churchill bridge layer I made as a kid I was so please with how it turned out I have kept it all these years. Heller's Sherman is one of the best I have made in this scale, open hatches and separate tools you can really go to town on it. Only issue is the crap decals , I have always had issues with Heller ones.
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I bought all of them again when Revell reintroduced them in about 2007-ish. Great kits, and very useful little dioramas - the one for the Humber armoured car, now has a mark 'A' Whippet tank on it. I can see it as I write this. Matchbox tended to produce subjects that no other mainstream UK producer did at the time, like the Chaffee, or the M16 Halftrack with the Maxon quad .50 calibre turret. Well worth finding and getting.
@adandap Crikey flashback...that humber car base. !!! Loved how vehicle bases had tracks moulded in the mud. Really brought things to life. Possibly that kit even had an old wheel on the base .
Yes, the tracks were like that in my day, lol. I’ve built enough of them to know and look forward to beginning to build them again. Thank you Revell, or is it Hornby now, lol.
Hi there, loved these as matchbox kits back in the mid 70s. So much better than comparable Airfix, and a base to boot. Amazing how well they have held up, even if Revell are being a bit naughty with repackaging and not letting on about the tooling age. I've been ebaying for months and have acquired almost all the range in original multi colour from matchbox. Loving the build and some unusual kits, Humber Armoured Car especially. James
@@MOS6510Models Hi Mos, here’s the list I have. 1. PK-83 : SdKfz. 251/1 Hanomag (1986) 2. PK-86 : M-40 G.M.C. 155mm Gun (1978) 3. PK-89 : M7 Priest HMC 105mm (1982) 4. PK71 Sherman Firefly (1972) 5. PK-173 : LRGD 30cwt Chevrolet and Willys Jeep (1979) 6. PK-176 : CHAR B1 bis and Renault FT17 (1983) 7. PK-73 : PzKfw-V Ausf. G Panther (1974) 8. PK-76 : SdKfz. 234/2 Puma (1974) 9. PK-77 : SdKfz. 124 Wespe (1983) 10. PK81 PzKpfw 11 Ausf F 1977? 11. PK? M4 American Halftrack with 50 Cal AA Mount 1977? 12. PK? Humber Armoured car !977? Favourite!!! 13. PK? T-34 Medium Tank !977? 14. PK? Krupp Protz Kfz.69 1979? 15. PK84: Stuart M3 Honey/Stuart (1977) 16. PK-171 : SdKfz.11, Pak40, BMW (1977) 17. PK-172 : Morris C8 MK-II & 17pdr Gun, Willys Jeep (1977) 18. PK-173 : LRGD 30cwt Chevrolet and Willys Jeep (1986) 19. PK-174 : M19 45 Ton tank transporter (1979) 20. PK-175 : Monty's Caravan and Daimler MKII Scoutcar (1980) - 21. PK-176 : CHAR B1 bis and Renault FT17 (1983) - 8 Pix 22. PK-177 : Churchill A.V.R.E. Bridgelayer (1983) - 5 Pix 23. PK-178 : Challenger Tank (1988) - 3 Pix Now I have read there are 27 altogether so I have missed a few somewhere. On Ebay the Matchbox kits are usually between the £10 and £20 mark, Revell early 2000 issue slightly cheaper. (although still with diorama base but one colour plastic.) Some are getting expensive such as the Hanomag and Monty’s caravan. I think there may be a leopard tank as well as a late issue? Dioramas definitely went down in imaginative concept/detail as the years went by. In my collection I still have numbers 10,9,21 and 8 as Revell reboxing and numbers 20,15,16,22,3,19 and 23 as original Matchbox kits. I’ve made the the others as a nostalgic homage recently! If you would like to review any of these, I would be delighted to pass them over for your perusal. Love the channel, keep it up James Mair.
The matchbox kit doesn't need to be new to be good. And the rubber band tracks from matchbox were always good but the older they get the more falling aparty they become. Good on revell for bringing this back
From memory, I had the Humber armoured car, the m24 Chaffee, M16 AA half track, Panzer Mk 3, Jagdpanther, Honey Stuart. There was also larger sets, 3 colour sprues, Monty's Command truck, an LRDG and SAS vehicle set, a US tank transporter, the churchill bridgelayer, Wespe, and a big US SP howitzer M26, maybe. Great kits, way better fit than airfix, revell or monogram, back in the day. Clean details , interesting subjects, and of course the funky display bases.
(It must have been Matchbox) did a Jagdpanther with the same interlocking rubber track. I recalled it distinctly when you demonstrated it. Built it in the early 1980's and still have it!
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I’ve still got some unmade Matchbox kits, including this one. Only a single colour plastic though (weird red/brown), which I think makes it a later one. It also has the ‘Made in’ blanked out.
I was seriously expecting to see that bridge in a brown colour! I remember the Diamond T, a mate had the Wespe and Comet and the Firefly, I cant remember which of us had it, I can remember the bridge. Perhaps we both did!
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Great to see those nice detailed kits still available but at a tenner I remember paying a lot less back when they first came out with Matchbox. I still have some Humbrel paint tins from back then, and I'm using them! I got most of the range, a lot of tanks, lorries and those nice little diorama sets. Sand, snow, streets with cobbles, roads, palm trees and making burnt out craters with my dad's matches! I used to swap the dioramas around. But I never did get that German eight wheeler to sit on all tyres squarely! How I made them with tube glue still amazes considering all those tiny pieces, pieces to my 60yrs eyes are microscopic even though I'm a much better modeller! I remember those track connectors but also screwdriver melt pins and glueable ones but I might be misremembering. Have you seen how much those Humbrel tins are now!!
Yes...I remember that German 8 wheel thing !!! Must have cost a whole 30p in my local post office in Plymouth. Strands of glue everywhere!!! But call me old school but I still use enamels. Get fed up with multiple coats of acrylic. Especially hard work when detailing.
i loved the old matchbox kits Mos , diaorama's included with all there vehicles , they were fantastic for the money , wish i had kept some they are silly money these days !!!!
I built quite a few of the original Matchbox 2-colour AFV kits back in the early 70s when I was a young lad.... loved them! 😊 I also built a bunch of their aircraft too. It's a shame that Revell are still not indicating that the supplied kit is a very old tooling; this new box style could make a lot of newer modellers think it's a new tooling when it's not! The only change that Revell have made to the old moulds is to use one colour plastic, not the two of the original, crudely smudged out the original Matchbox logos and date from some parts and sprues....Oh, and added extra flash!! 😂 I am pleased though that the good old moulds are still being used, as a good kit is still a good kit 50 years on.. 😉
@@MOS6510Modelsi was looking on my local model shops website and the have a revell 1/76 humber with diorama set /base.....i wonder if thats the old matchbox kit aswell
Petit kit sympa construit dans ma jeunesse ou cette boite coutait cinq francs soit moins d'un euros actuel . Pour information c'était le prix d'un sachet AIRFIX série 1 ou d'une maquette HELLER CADET ou d'un petit avion 1/72 de chez REVELL , voir une petite boite FROG .
I build it when it was released, better in details than Airfix one, except for hull's lenght, that seemed a little "stretched". Their kits were way different from Airfix ones, expecially bcz there were a lot of vehicles ignorated by other makers, such as the Puma, M24 or Comet, or the beautiful Humber Mk III (the first I bought!). It's a pity that they stopped making them
@@MOS6510Models I'm subscribed but I havent built any kits since August 1985 when I got wed,stupid me, but I do still have my 1960 train sets and more from over the years including a 1938 Meccano Freight Set no. 2 in its original box
I picked up a similar kit from Mr price here in Dublin for €6.99 with a piece of road and a street lamp I thought 1:76 was an odd scale if it wasn't so cheap I would have left it for not being 1:72
@@MOS6510Models as the current 4 builds I have in the works are 1:72 and apart from starships the next 6 will be a 1:72 it will be an odd duck maybe as a background vehicle it will look in scale lol
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I think I got that the wrong way round. My memory isn’t what it used to be. The matchbox was 1:76 scale but I think the Rebox is now 1:72. A lot of the Airfix rebox kits are now in 1:72 scale which I think is a bloody sacrilege, don’t you. Or do actually prefer 1:72 scale. Either way, they are all nice kits and since I now 72 years of age and collected and built, and really enjoyed building these kits when I was younger, I can’t decide whether to start mixing and matching both scales or not. My comment was not meant as a criticism of your video since I enjoy watching your content, it’s just that I have started digging out all my old models but I am bed-bound at the moment and can’t really start my building just yet. Soon though, soon, lol. Stay well and keep the vids coming.
Whilst I have no problem with Revell re-branding these old kits, I do have a problem with the price point. In some cases you can get the original vintage Matchbox kit for less. These were "pocket money" kits back in the day. Now Revell are asking a premium for what are essentially 50 year old kits . Those moulds must have paid for themselves 10x over by now !
Awesome news but i notice from the box Revell have it listed as a skill level 4 out of 5....absloute proof their "grading" system is nonsense....Matchbox kits were NEVER that difficult to build...and while i understand it relates to parts count rather than build difficulty a lot of people,esp beginners could be turned off because of it thinking its about build difficulty
Why no WW2 country markings on British tanks (even now). The Germans, USA, French, Japanese had some kind of scheme, the Italians (god knows), but our dear British tanks seemed only to have regimental or rank markings. What’s that all about Moz? I think we should be told ……..
@@MOS6510Models I don’t mean on this kit. I mean in general. We have the RAF roundel on all our aircraft, the Union Jack on all our ships but just a few squiggles on our vehicles. No wonder the Americans make a habit of blowing them up!
@@alanmorris8783 There was the red/white/red vertical 'flash' similar to WWI used on British tanks from 1940 to 1942, thereafter the white star replaced it as a standard international marking for all allied vehicles
£10......😂😂😂😂😂 It’s 39 years old.....Jeeez....sorry, I’ve been pensioned off....just getting into the swing of being “an old git”....but really, I built these when they were straight out of the gate...and now the Huns are flogging them for a Tenner.....Vorsprung Durch Rip Off! 😎🤪
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Good to see the love for Matchbox here. They were a breath of fresh air in the 70s, especially the tracks. They also had two variants on the decals - useful for pimping up the Airfix polythene vehicles! I still have my original Firefly which I repainted for the Irish Guards in the early 80s. Best of all, they were often sold in newsagents, which meant I could scam my dad on Sundays too.
No doubt!
Nice. I remember them from the 1970s. I was a very lucky boy, because, my dad used to deliver raw materials to the MB factory/warehouse, I'd go with him "on the lorry" sometimes, AND.....the factory manager got to hear I was waiting patiently in the cab and bring me a couple of free kits each time👍✌️😊😲💜💜
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Built this when it first came out in '74. It was one of my favourite models as I really liked the bridge.
brings back cool memories for me too
I still have this kit in my display cabinet, as all other Matchbox AFVs I built in the ‘80ies. Wonderful stuff. Clearly they know at Revell what to rerelease.
I would like to see others released in the future, seems there was quite a range
Well worth picking these kits up, they still hold up very well after all the years. Thanks for reviewing MOS!
i agree
As a 70s kid, I loved these little kits!
Hence why my disappointment was quelled seeing this kit, its like an old friend
Nice to see this kit again, I made a lot of those Matchbox "diorama kits" back in the 70's when I was a kid. Maybe I'll start collecting them again... And yes I do remember those tracks being make like that while other brands insisted on using pins to melt with a hot screwdriver... ideal for a 10 yo of course.
yes.. i kinda forgot about them.. to see them again is fabulous
I built at least two of these back in the '70's. Always liked the Matchbox kits as a wargamer as you got a bit of free terrain with them.
Yes they have a place
I love your channel I used to buy kits as a kid but I’ve got a few to build after watching your channel
Brilliant.. let me know how you get on with building them
I will just deciding on what airbrush to decide on getting because I want to practice on smaller ones before I purchase and build that 1/24 Airfix spitfire.
Great little kits built one in the day and loved the sdkfz234/2 Puma as well
Now that was a fine kit too
I remember building this kit by Matchbox back in the 1970's. I can remember not thinking much of that bridge, I wouldn't fancy driving a Sherman onto that. I'm in my 70's now and haven't built a kit in more than 30 years. I do have a few kits around though, I bought them for my son when he was young. He unfortunately didn't have the aptitude for kit building. I love watching kit building videos though, I find them very calming to watch. I will subscribe, it was nice to be taken back in time.
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It is new that Revell call the series 'first diorama', but they have had many of these old Matchbox kits in the range in the past years. I built 4 of them since 2020, as a kid I had 10 from Matchbox. Lovely kits.
Yes i agree.. if the first diorama range wasnt so expensive i would be picking. more up!
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That looks a good buy. I bought most of the Revell repops 2 or 3 years ago for about 8 or 9 pounds each. On inspection the moulds have lasted well with very little flash. Peter Oxley has done a box opening of most of the Matchbox AFVs on his channel.
yep.. i would like to know what steel they used in the tooling as it just doesnt look worn
Might be they were not used as much as Airfix ?.
@@GG-lx8rp they have been released many times matey..
It is good to see these old Matchbox kits coming back. Their armour range was the best on the market in the 1970s. All the kits had injection moulded, not vac-form, bases. The smaller kits, such as the Sherman Firefly, were moulded in two colours. This one was green and brown. The larger kits were in three colours. Matchbox used this method of joining tracks from the start. Much better than the other brands, which needed a heated screwdriver to seal them.
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I made this kit back when I was 14. I can still remember that I enjoyed building it, but totally ignored the diorama base...
Your review has partly tempted me to make this again, but those rubber tracks? Even good ones are not my thing
i get that matey
The tracks and the way they link are exactly as they were back in the 70s. I had - still have - the Wespe. Complete with palm tree.
Whats the wespe like to build?
It was about 1978, I dont remember any problems with it. @@MOS6510Models
I have a few of the kits, My favorite is the M19 Tank Transporter! Whenever is see one, I'll try to buy it, and add to my stash.
Oh I dont remember that one.. will have a look for one
Takes me back to saving my pocket money in the midb70s...buying matchbox kits from Higher St Budeaux post office near where I lived. Loved every one, especially the 2 or 3 colour kits. Went together better than airfix...but the few revell kits I did then were absolutely terrible. Big gaps in fit lines for instance.
Yep. Revell lost their way many moons ago..
Some of the old 70s kit like the Italeri ESCI reboxes and these matchbox ones are pretty good value for money even if they don't match up to the quality of today
agreed.. Still a great looking kit.
It would be nice to see the Airfix new tool next to the old Matchbox kit.. I built the Matchbox 2 colour version back in the 70s
Yes.. its on the cards lol
Lovely kits , happier times.
Yes they are!
I remember these in the Matchbox catalogue when I was a lad
yes.. for years they were in them
I nearly picked this one up but went for a different one instead but this will be on my to get list in the future
those tracks tho!
@@MOS6510Models they do look brilliant and the other dio kit is the sd.kfz. 124 wespe
Loved building Matchbox kits as a kid I still have the Churchill bridge layer I made as a kid I was so please with how it turned out I have kept it all these years. Heller's Sherman is one of the best I have made in this scale, open hatches and separate tools you can really go to town on it. Only issue is the crap decals , I have always had issues with Heller ones.
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Looks like a really nice kit
thank you
I bought all of them again when Revell reintroduced them in about 2007-ish. Great kits, and very useful little dioramas - the one for the Humber armoured car, now has a mark 'A' Whippet tank on it. I can see it as I write this. Matchbox tended to produce subjects that no other mainstream UK producer did at the time, like the Chaffee, or the M16 Halftrack with the Maxon quad .50 calibre turret.
Well worth finding and getting.
yes i have been looking at the older kits in the range. and there is quite a few of them
@@MOS6510Models 27 in fact. I collected them all up a couple of years ago and am working through them.
@adandap Crikey flashback...that humber car base. !!! Loved how vehicle bases had tracks moulded in the mud. Really brought things to life. Possibly that kit even had an old wheel on the base .
@@adandap - And damn, for old kits, most of them are superb. Worth getting the L.R.D.G. set for all of the stowage alone!
Really cool unboxing.
Glad you liked it
Yes, the tracks were like that in my day, lol. I’ve built enough of them to know and look forward to beginning to build them again. Thank you Revell, or is it Hornby now, lol.
airfix is hornby.. revell is just.. well.. revell
Hi there, loved these as matchbox kits back in the mid 70s. So much better than comparable Airfix, and a base to boot. Amazing how well they have held up, even if Revell are being a bit naughty with repackaging and not letting on about the tooling age. I've been ebaying for months and have acquired almost all the range in original multi colour from matchbox. Loving the build and some unusual kits, Humber Armoured Car especially. James
Glad you like them! what sort of money are they?
and do you have a list you could email of all the kits please
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Hi Mos, here’s the list I have.
1. PK-83 : SdKfz. 251/1 Hanomag (1986)
2. PK-86 : M-40 G.M.C. 155mm Gun (1978)
3. PK-89 : M7 Priest HMC 105mm (1982)
4. PK71 Sherman Firefly (1972)
5. PK-173 : LRGD 30cwt Chevrolet and Willys Jeep (1979)
6. PK-176 : CHAR B1 bis and Renault FT17 (1983)
7. PK-73 : PzKfw-V Ausf. G Panther (1974)
8. PK-76 : SdKfz. 234/2 Puma (1974)
9. PK-77 : SdKfz. 124 Wespe (1983)
10. PK81 PzKpfw 11 Ausf F 1977?
11. PK? M4 American Halftrack with 50 Cal AA Mount 1977?
12. PK? Humber Armoured car !977? Favourite!!!
13. PK? T-34 Medium Tank !977?
14. PK? Krupp Protz Kfz.69 1979?
15. PK84: Stuart M3 Honey/Stuart (1977)
16. PK-171 : SdKfz.11, Pak40, BMW (1977)
17. PK-172 : Morris C8 MK-II & 17pdr Gun, Willys Jeep (1977)
18. PK-173 : LRGD 30cwt Chevrolet and Willys Jeep (1986)
19. PK-174 : M19 45 Ton tank transporter (1979)
20. PK-175 : Monty's Caravan and Daimler MKII Scoutcar (1980) -
21. PK-176 : CHAR B1 bis and Renault FT17 (1983) - 8 Pix
22. PK-177 : Churchill A.V.R.E. Bridgelayer (1983) - 5 Pix
23. PK-178 : Challenger Tank (1988) - 3 Pix
Now I have read there are 27 altogether so I have missed a few somewhere. On Ebay the Matchbox kits are usually between the £10 and £20 mark, Revell early 2000 issue slightly cheaper. (although still with diorama base but one colour plastic.) Some are getting expensive such as the Hanomag and Monty’s caravan. I think there may be a leopard tank as well as a late issue? Dioramas definitely went down in imaginative concept/detail as the years went by.
In my collection I still have numbers 10,9,21 and 8 as Revell reboxing and numbers 20,15,16,22,3,19 and 23 as original Matchbox kits. I’ve made the the others as a nostalgic homage recently! If you would like to review any of these, I would be delighted to pass them over for your perusal. Love the channel, keep it up James Mair.
Ah senior moment, there's a Jagdpanther, Comet and a Chafee as well. James.
@@jamesmair2512 fantastic matey
Added to my notes
Matchbox has something like 30 different 1/76 diorama kits. Hope Revell release them all in time.
that would be interesting to see if they do
Been looking at the revell range there have quite a few of theses tanks set.
yes.. if the price is right i would buy more
Nice kit Review Mos Looks great for a tenner.
Thanks 👍
The matchbox kit doesn't need to be new to be good. And the rubber band tracks from matchbox were always good but the older they get the more falling aparty they become. Good on revell for bringing this back
these are fresh and maybe the rubber used is better quality now? but yes point taken matey
From memory, I had the Humber armoured car, the m24 Chaffee, M16 AA half track, Panzer Mk 3, Jagdpanther, Honey Stuart. There was also larger sets, 3 colour sprues, Monty's Command truck, an LRDG and SAS vehicle set, a US tank transporter, the churchill bridgelayer, Wespe, and a big US SP howitzer M26, maybe. Great kits, way better fit than airfix, revell or monogram, back in the day. Clean details , interesting subjects, and of course the funky display bases.
we were talking about those models in episode 9 of our podcast. be out in the next couple of weeks
(It must have been Matchbox) did a Jagdpanther with the same interlocking rubber track. I recalled it distinctly when you demonstrated it. Built it in the early 1980's and still have it!
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I hope to see it compared to the Airfix. I’m making the Airfix one right now but I want it to have side skirts like this Matchbox one here.
good shout
always wanted to try a Diorama :)
There are some great tips on dioramas on @lpjmodels channel
I’ve still got some unmade Matchbox kits, including this one. Only a single colour plastic though (weird red/brown), which I think makes it a later one. It also has the ‘Made in’ blanked out.
It sounds like one of the Polish-made Matchbox-branded kits that Revell marketed when they could still use the Matchbox trade mark.
I was seriously expecting to see that bridge in a brown colour! I remember the Diamond T, a mate had the Wespe and Comet and the Firefly, I cant remember which of us had it, I can remember the bridge. Perhaps we both did!
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Great to see those nice detailed kits still available but at a tenner I remember paying a lot less back when they first came out with Matchbox. I still have some Humbrel paint tins from back then, and I'm using them! I got most of the range, a lot of tanks, lorries and those nice little diorama sets. Sand, snow, streets with cobbles, roads, palm trees and making burnt out craters with my dad's matches! I used to swap the dioramas around. But I never did get that German eight wheeler to sit on all tyres squarely! How I made them with tube glue still amazes considering all those tiny pieces, pieces to my 60yrs eyes are microscopic even though I'm a much better modeller!
I remember those track connectors but also screwdriver melt pins and glueable ones but I might be misremembering.
Have you seen how much those Humbrel tins are now!!
Yep.. but i shy away from enamel..
Yes...I remember that German 8 wheel thing !!! Must have cost a whole 30p in my local post office in Plymouth. Strands of glue everywhere!!! But call me old school but I still use enamels. Get fed up with multiple coats of acrylic. Especially hard work when detailing.
Enamels stick better to plastic and metal, wood too and to be honest I love the smell of dirty old enamel thinners, the smell of modelling!
i loved the old matchbox kits Mos , diaorama's included with all there vehicles , they were fantastic for the money , wish i had kept some they are silly money these days !!!!
absolutely.. i feel revell have priced these kits high though.. this sherman was a bargain though
I built quite a few of the original Matchbox 2-colour AFV kits back in the early 70s when I was a young lad.... loved them! 😊
I also built a bunch of their aircraft too.
It's a shame that Revell are still not indicating that the supplied kit is a very old tooling; this new box style could make a lot of newer modellers think it's a new tooling when it's not! The only change that Revell have made to the old moulds is to use one colour plastic, not the two of the original, crudely smudged out the original Matchbox logos and date from some parts and sprues....Oh, and added extra flash!! 😂
I am pleased though that the good old moulds are still being used, as a good kit is still a good kit 50 years on.. 😉
my next article will be on substack when this video goes live to public.. i make the point that all manufactures must do that
@@MOS6510Modelsi was looking on my local model shops website and the have a revell 1/76 humber with diorama set /base.....i wonder if thats the old matchbox kit aswell
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Love them! 👍
Me too!
I picked this up for £9.99 in a little shop just last week. Going to try to make it into a Keeys Heroes scene.
i could be tempted by this one lol
What.. add to that stash matey? Lol
lol maybe if i build a few kits first . . .@@MOS6510Models
Petit kit sympa construit dans ma jeunesse ou cette boite coutait cinq francs soit moins d'un euros actuel .
Pour information c'était le prix d'un sachet AIRFIX série 1 ou d'une maquette HELLER CADET ou d'un petit avion 1/72 de chez REVELL , voir une petite boite FROG .
that does sound about right.. the prices have rocketed lol
I build it when it was released, better in details than Airfix one, except for hull's lenght, that seemed a little "stretched". Their kits were way different from Airfix ones, expecially bcz there were a lot of vehicles ignorated by other makers, such as the Puma, M24 or Comet, or the beautiful Humber Mk III (the first I bought!).
It's a pity that they stopped making them
i think revell have all those tools, i guess they will release them again eventually
The 'stretched' hull is right for this model which had a different motor to the other M4 series and needed a longer hull.
1:10 Matchbox bases were never vacform. They were always standard plastic, sharing the same sprues as the vehicle.
ah my memory lacked there,, i knew some dioramas had vacform maybe not revell
I remember making that kit and using the diorama separately for some wargames
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@@MOS6510Models I'm subscribed but I havent built any kits since August 1985 when I got wed,stupid me, but I do still have my 1960 train sets and more from over the years including a 1938 Meccano Freight Set no. 2 in its original box
I'm pretty sure a lot of Matchbox vehicles came with a small diorama base, I remember their Panther kit came with one. EDIT yup checked up, they did!
Did they have those tracks?
@@MOS6510Models : From memory, yes, most, if not all came with a similar tab-'n-twist join..!! 😆
i just couldn't remember @stevesstuff but i have used them before
Maybe a how to build your first diorama build video 😏😉
I will be building it but spraying the tank.. dont have the time to brush paint it sadly
What show was that? The one in thornbury? I was there too 😁
yes matey
The matchbox figures were very good too and I would suggest they were better than the Airfix ones
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matchbox tracks were always like that, far superior to the Airfix ones
Always paint the bogies and return rollers, and the tracks - that way, the PVC tracks don't attack the styrene running gear after a year or so.
I forgot how great the tracks are
I picked up a similar kit from Mr price here in Dublin for €6.99 with a piece of road and a street lamp I thought 1:76 was an odd scale if it wasn't so cheap I would have left it for not being 1:72
1/76 and 1/72 are interchangable i gather
@@MOS6510Models as the current 4 builds I have in the works are 1:72 and apart from starships the next 6 will be a 1:72 it will be an odd duck maybe as a background vehicle it will look in scale lol
i built the matchbox hannomag was fave
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Yes, but the Airfix version is 1:76 scale and slightly than the Revell/Matchbox version.
Slightly what matey?
I think I got that the wrong way round. My memory isn’t what it used to be. The matchbox was 1:76 scale but I think the Rebox is now 1:72. A lot of the Airfix rebox kits are now in 1:72 scale which I think is a bloody sacrilege, don’t you. Or do actually prefer 1:72 scale. Either way, they are all nice kits and since I now 72 years of age and collected and built, and really enjoyed building these kits when I was younger, I can’t decide whether to start mixing and matching both scales or not. My comment was not meant as a criticism of your video since I enjoy watching your content, it’s just that I have started digging out all my old models but I am bed-bound at the moment and can’t really start my building just yet. Soon though, soon, lol. Stay well and keep the vids coming.
Whilst I have no problem with Revell re-branding these old kits, I do have a problem with the price point. In some cases you can get the original vintage Matchbox kit for less. These were "pocket money" kits back in the day. Now Revell are asking a premium for what are essentially 50 year old kits . Those moulds must have paid for themselves 10x over by now !
i agree entirely
All the diorama bases were injection moulded.
Yes it was a memory glitch.. i have built kits in the 90's with vacform dioramas
who bought ESCI, if anyone?
Awesome news but i notice from the box Revell have it listed as a skill level 4 out of 5....absloute proof their "grading" system is nonsense....Matchbox kits were NEVER that difficult to build...and while i understand it relates to parts count rather than build difficulty a lot of people,esp beginners could be turned off because of it thinking its about build difficulty
absolutely.. i think all manufacturers fail at some stage with grading difficulty
The rubber band tracks are the same as back in the day so it'll be a pig to get them to lie flat😣
i really cant remember.. will find out when i build it lol
Nice review, shame you didn't have black gloves on ;)
haha,, i should get them on
Why no WW2 country markings on British tanks (even now). The Germans, USA, French, Japanese had some kind of scheme, the Italians (god knows), but our dear British tanks seemed only to have regimental or rank markings.
What’s that all about Moz? I think we should be told ……..
I really dont know matey.. maybe someone from @revell could explain
@@MOS6510Models I don’t mean on this kit. I mean in general. We have the RAF roundel on all our aircraft, the Union Jack on all our ships but just a few squiggles on our vehicles. No wonder the Americans make a habit of blowing them up!
@@alanmorris8783 There was the red/white/red vertical 'flash' similar to WWI used on British tanks from 1940 to 1942, thereafter the white star replaced it as a standard international marking for all allied vehicles
Looks like it used to say 'Made In China' to me.
Built that in the 1970's before I got seduced by punk!!
I was 79.. so i missed that lol
£10......😂😂😂😂😂 It’s 39 years old.....Jeeez....sorry, I’ve been pensioned off....just getting into the swing of being “an old git”....but really, I built these when they were straight out of the gate...and now the Huns are flogging them for a Tenner.....Vorsprung Durch Rip Off! 😎🤪
with paints and glue and a brush? :)
Same here!😁
What's with the hands waving across the screen. Really ruins the video
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