I would have loved these as a kid. I had many of the soldiers, and I still remember the unique smell of a new box of soldiers. It was a mix of the cardboard combined with the plastic of the soldiers.
As a kid I wanted an Airfix Combat Pack so much but even then they were always out of my reach financially. For me they were the ultimate item in the Airfix range. Enjoying your videos so much.
My brother and I had one and I can clearly remember the discs firing out of the pil boxes as if it was yesterday. I can feel that Cromwell tank in my hands just by looking at your video.
That bombed out house looks the same model as the one featured in the D-Day Battlefront Diorama. My elder brother built coountless military models and kits when he was younger, I think I've still got many of them including bits of that diorama in a box somewhere in the loft.
Yeah. There were some sets like that that had very well made toy soldiers. Me and my Brother had a lot of fun with those when we were kids. I had this one guy with a Thompson that was "Me". As we got older - we graduated to Model Kits but those were a lot more fragile. That didn't stop us from playing with them - but they broke a lot and had to be repaired. The last thing I did with one of those hard plastic toys - was a German Officer. I made a coat for him out of masking tape and painted it all up - then I put him in the cupola of this model of a Mk. V I had. Looked fairly good ... to me at last ... Ha! Ha! .
Remember these sets as a kid but unfortunately never had the money to buy either. Owned the figures and several of the Airfix buildings such as the Checkpoint and Bamboo House in this scale but Matchbox sets very rare in the UK these days. Managed to get several sets of Matchbox figures sealed in 1/72nd scale from China and that's about it. Great video, has reminded to start searching for them.
I remember having sets like this when I was a kid in the 80s. I wish I remember what the name of the set was. Think I got it from Child World which is now sadly long gone.
I had that set when I was 12. I spent hours in the October school break in 1977 using it to play out the Arnhem fight from A Bridge Too Far. Annuals laid out for the bridge and pill boxes either end. Brilliant fun.
I had boxes of those airfix 1/32 scale soldiers in the late seventies! Literally, two dozen different sets, two and three of the same, such as British paratroopers, but I never had any of the playsets, or vehicles. Lots of fun watching your Channel.
I was about 8 when I found this in a hardware store and my dad bought it for me. Hours and hours of fun using the British Paratroopers to attack not only the house but the Navarone playset I got at a yard sale. I truly miss those days.
I hear you, when I was 12 in 2001 my dad threw away my 1993 PC and all the floppy games that went with it. I had all the classic pixel games on them. I came home from school to go and switch on my old PC, to find a gaping hole where my computer used to be. When he told me what he had done I went BERSERK!!!!!!!!!!!!! I too have fond memories of the good old days back in the 90's and early 00's. Today is all about fantasy and feel good, I much prefer watching Battle of the bulge or where eagles dare then bloody Harry Potter or some silly Zelda film or warcraft!
Brilliant Video so many memories , I had the house as soon as I saw the roof I knew , but was confused as I didn't have the set until you pointed out it was a available separately. You're vids have rekindled memories in me that I doubt would ever have been stirred. Cheers 😊
Had this for Christmas 1977but fortunately found it hidden in my parent's bedroom, so played with it 3mnths before xmas with my brother Darren then packed it away(what were we like in them days🤪)sorry mum and dad ❤
This looks amazing. Maybe I am not normal? I was not drawn to these Combat Sets in the same way as I was their 1:72 counterparts when I was a child. Much as I did buy 1:32nd Scale occasionally, this was governed by availability (Or lack thereof). Almost exclusively, my friends and I had massive battles in the Airfix HO/OO range. Upon watching this, I still got that warm, fuzzy nostalgic feeling. Perhaps I am missing old friends and simply remembering good times. Could it be that the toys didn't matter to us, as much as our friends did?... Nah. It's Airfix all the way down. Thank you for this wonderful episode, I bloody-loved it. Cheers.
@@toysoldiernostalgia I'm right with you on this point. I'm not an expert on psychoanalysis, or human behaviour. I know that I am glad that your channel exists. You make me smile. And I'm fine with that.
I have this combat pack in my loft complete. I really must get it down sometime and have a look at it again. I have a big wooden box full of the 1/32 scale soldiers too.
@@toysoldiernostalgia I found your channel by accident because I have about 30 dinky toys in boxes are used to have the plastic soldiers just interesting , my hobby now is home cinema . Love your channel.
I am sure I used to have this. I do remember and I am sure it was not Airfix of an urban playset where the the cannons worked on air pressure and you pressed a control to develop air pressure to fire a plastic shell from a gun. Plus there was a bomb you place in the building again based on suction to go off whenever and it was on a spring to fire up (no health and safety but loads of fun). Great video and again great memories that I had to be honest forgot .................. thankyou
great video! i still have a more or less mint boxed regular combat pack which is complete, it sits on top of my bedroom wardrobe, still have loads of the 1/32 scale airfix soldiers in their boxes, australian, american, japanese, german, russian, infantry support, paratroops. commandos, german mountain troops, terrific nostalgia, my main love is corgi, dinky etc die casts but i also love toy soldiers and vehicles
I had the desert one, my father bought me extra airfix German Africa korps soldier packs and extra British and Australian north African packs, all up l had over 100 German soldiers 100 British and Australian soldiers added to my airfix combat pack!!
I look at it as one of the wonders of the world of the ancient world. And considering this, I understand that the modern toy industry has completely degraded.
Great show. I went back to the 1980s. I still ever kept many plastic soldiers, which is kept by my Dad in China. Now I still want to buy very vintage infantry plastic soldiers. If you know which brand is the best, please recommend to me. Thanks.
I love Airfix kits, I have a shop at the end of my road that sells them, I'm taking my American friend there sometime soon. I also collect army men and police figurines. I also have a security figure, because some security guards are trained by special forces and carry weapons! I have a couple of war ships and a Roman legionary soldier by Airfix too! What I love about Airfix is their all based on historical artifacts and people, not sci fi and fantasy. I never enjoyed sci fi. Warhammer is entirely made up, and even some of their stuff is based on Gothic architecture, I'm sorry but I prefer real life over fantasy any day of the weak! I was always seen as an odd ball as a kid because I developed my own interests rather than going with everybody else, it was all elves and harry potter when I was at secondary school, when I was a teen I went to a boarding school and most of the boys there were into warhammer, not really my thing, who ever though of "wood elves" or "melter cannons?" I'm sorry but a history book is far better then a comic book or fantasy saga! Yet I'm the one conciderd a nerd for collecting army men and not pokemon cards! Who the hell are they to judge me? Kelly's heroes beats the crap out of Avatar! the only sci fi I like is old classics like Logans run or Tron, I'm old school!
When she was still with us, our Nan used to work at Airfix in the 1970s. We had just about every Airfix model and toy they ever made. I agree with you that models based on real life are better because they are also educational.
@@jjs3287 Yes, thank you. I love real life, so much more interesting and funny then anything artificial. Unfortunately that Arifix shop is now gone. People sometime rip me for liking real life, saying that fantasy is more fun. There is plenty of cool stuff about history, Nero, Cyrus the great, the America civil war, Saladin and Richard the lion heart. Ever since I can remember, I've ben different, whilst everyone else was playing dungeons and dragons, I was reading horrible histories or watching things like Kelly's heroes. I've always formed my own opinions and taste, rather then just parroting what everyone else is into or believe!
How many letters to santa 🎅 to get this. 🤔. Should not complain, a toy shop in Kilmarnock, Scotland was closing down and my father got me all the Britain's sets. Plus lots of airfix boxes of soldiers. 1976.
Its interesting that you say that. I remember the green pill box and the cromwell very very clearly but not the grey one. Its like a gap in my memory. Maybe some of these items were sold separately at some stage?
It doesn't actually seem very balanced. Tank vs Armoured car. I guess they are just scenery though if you are going to play pill box war. It was even worse with the 1/72 assault sets. I used to love the pontoon bridge set but the poor Germans got the bridge and sandbags and the allies 2 tanks a self propelled gun and a amphibious vehicle.
I would have loved these as a kid. I had many of the soldiers, and I still remember the unique smell of a new box of soldiers. It was a mix of the cardboard combined with the plastic of the soldiers.
I opened a sealed box a few years ago. The smell was exactly the same as way back when.
Reading your comment has reminded me too!
@@toysoldiernostalgiaI had forgotten about the smell. I remember the smell from the old Marx sets.
I just went back in time, thank you for this
As a kid I wanted an Airfix Combat Pack so much but even then they were always out of my reach financially. For me they were the ultimate item in the Airfix range. Enjoying your videos so much.
Yes they kinda put all the good stuff into one big package.
Thanks for watching man.
My brother and I had one and I can clearly remember the discs firing out of the pil boxes as if it was yesterday. I can feel that Cromwell tank in my hands just by looking at your video.
Must have been an awesome toy.
Great combat set up like it. My favourite was always the desert scene. 👍🏻
I remember getting this exact set one Christmas back in the 1970s . I think it was 77 or 78 . Great times .
Wow that`s some christmas present.
That bombed out house looks the same model as the one featured in the D-Day Battlefront Diorama. My elder brother built coountless military models and kits when he was younger, I think I've still got many of them including bits of that diorama in a box somewhere in the loft.
Yeah. There were some sets like that that had very well made toy soldiers. Me and my Brother had a lot of fun with those when we were kids. I had this one guy with a Thompson that was "Me".
As we got older - we graduated to Model Kits but those were a lot more fragile. That didn't stop us from playing with them - but they broke a lot and had to be repaired.
The last thing I did with one of those hard plastic toys - was a German Officer. I made a coat for him out of masking tape and painted it all up - then I put him in the cupola of this model of a Mk. V I had. Looked fairly good ... to me at last ... Ha! Ha!
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Remember these sets as a kid but unfortunately never had the money to buy either. Owned the figures and several of the Airfix buildings such as the Checkpoint and Bamboo House in this scale but Matchbox sets very rare in the UK these days. Managed to get several sets of Matchbox figures sealed in 1/72nd scale from China and that's about it. Great video, has reminded to start searching for them.
I remember having sets like this when I was a kid in the 80s. I wish I remember what the name of the set was. Think I got it from Child World which is now sadly long gone.
I had that set when I was 12. I spent hours in the October school break in 1977 using it to play out the Arnhem fight from A Bridge Too Far. Annuals laid out for the bridge and pill boxes either end. Brilliant fun.
Sounds like a great time 😀
I had boxes of those airfix 1/32 scale soldiers in the late seventies! Literally, two dozen different sets, two and three of the same, such as British paratroopers, but I never had any of the playsets, or vehicles. Lots of fun watching your Channel.
Wow that´s a lot of soldiers. I didn´t have even close to that when I was a kid.
Thanks for watching :)
I received this same combat pack for my birthday when I was young. Merci, for the trip down nostalgia lane.
That`s not a bad present. Must have been awesome to have.
I was about 8 when I found this in a hardware store and my dad bought it for me. Hours and hours of fun using the British Paratroopers to attack not only the house but the Navarone playset I got at a yard sale. I truly miss those days.
The Navarone set is that`s Marx?
I hear you, when I was 12 in 2001 my dad threw away my 1993 PC and all the floppy games that went with it. I had all the classic pixel games on them. I came home from school to go and switch on my old PC, to find a gaping hole where my computer used to be. When he told me what he had done I went BERSERK!!!!!!!!!!!!! I too have fond memories of the good old days back in the 90's and early 00's. Today is all about fantasy and feel good, I much prefer watching Battle of the bulge or where eagles dare then bloody Harry Potter or some silly Zelda film or warcraft!
Loving this, I mean time travelling back to the 70s
I feel 8yrs old again thank you
Brilliant Video so many memories , I had the house as soon as I saw the roof I knew , but was confused as I didn't have the set until you pointed out it was a available separately.
You're vids have rekindled memories in me that I doubt would ever have been stirred. Cheers 😊
That awesome. Thanks for watching.
The perfect way to end the day-a new video on my favorite subject; toy soldiers and sets.Thanks.
Had this for Christmas 1977but fortunately found it hidden in my parent's bedroom, so played with it 3mnths before xmas with my brother Darren then packed it away(what were we like in them days🤪)sorry mum and dad ❤
@@waynemartin8055 lol I did the same with a gift set of die cast emergency vehicles.
This looks amazing. Maybe I am not normal? I was not drawn to these Combat Sets in the same way as I was their 1:72 counterparts when I was a child. Much as I did buy 1:32nd Scale occasionally, this was governed by availability (Or lack thereof). Almost exclusively, my friends and I had massive battles in the Airfix HO/OO range. Upon watching this, I still got that warm, fuzzy nostalgic feeling. Perhaps I am missing old friends and simply remembering good times. Could it be that the toys didn't matter to us, as much as our friends did?... Nah. It's Airfix all the way down.
Thank you for this wonderful episode, I bloody-loved it. Cheers.
Yes what is it with these old toys and the memories they bring back. I don`t realy get it but it`s just a fact.
@@toysoldiernostalgia I'm right with you on this point. I'm not an expert on psychoanalysis, or human behaviour. I know that I am glad that your channel exists. You make me smile. And I'm fine with that.
Thanks man 😄@@tomsenior7405
I have this combat pack in my loft complete. I really must get it down sometime and have a look at it again. I have a big wooden box full of the 1/32 scale soldiers too.
Get them down from there. I´m trying to set up a Facebook group on the topic of toys and nostaliga. Would love to see some photos there :)
Fantastic! I'd forgotten the super detail in the Airfix 1/32 soldier sets.
Great, the shooting pillboxes!!! I saw them in an Airfix flyer, but they did not sell them in a store near me😭
I think it was the same story for the most of us.
Thank you! I forgot I had the bombed out building as a kid in the 70`s. This brought back great memories.
Great. That´s why I make these videos 😀
I had this one as a kid. Still have the tank and armoured vehicle as well as the soldiers loose.
One lucky kid :)
@@toysoldiernostalgiaYou Sir are lucky with all these beautiful sets!
@@dutchgijoe thanks.
My friend had this , we had a great time playing " A Bridge too Far with it"... l sent him this , let's see if he still has it.
My friends always seemed to have much cooler stuff then I did. They probably thought the same about me.
I really like the wall display with the Airfix kits behind you. Very cool.
It was made for me by my sons mother as a birthday gift. Cutom made by a company that makes displays for retailers and museums.
This looks really good sure wish I had these back in the 70s
Like most of us. Only the lucky few got one.
Elastic bands.
Great battles with my brothers.
Absolutely fantastic your son must love you playing soldiers how wonderful 😊😊😊
Me and my son play a lot of figure war games now that he´s a bit older.
@@toysoldiernostalgia I found your channel by accident because I have about 30 dinky toys in boxes are used to have the plastic soldiers just interesting , my hobby now is home cinema . Love your channel.
The British paras were always my favourite 👍
They are in my top 3 or 5. There’s so many great sets so it’s so hard doing like a top 3 or 5.
Mine too, and I‘m German!😁👍
I enjoyed this video! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for watching 😀
I am sure I used to have this. I do remember and I am sure it was not Airfix of an urban playset where the the cannons worked on air pressure and you pressed a control to develop air pressure to fire a plastic shell from a gun. Plus there was a bomb you place in the building again based on suction to go off whenever and it was on a spring to fire up (no health and safety but loads of fun). Great video and again great memories that I had to be honest forgot .................. thankyou
That’s the Matchbox Counter Attack set. I’ve made a video on that. Check my channel page
@@toysoldiernostalgia Thats it, just watched video on it. Your videos are a therapy to me and bring back so many good memories
thanks for showing
"You still have a tank" "Yes thank you" 🤣
great video, thank you for posting
great video! i still have a more or less mint boxed regular combat pack which is complete, it sits on top of my bedroom wardrobe, still have loads of the 1/32 scale airfix soldiers in their boxes, australian, american, japanese, german, russian, infantry support, paratroops. commandos, german mountain troops, terrific nostalgia, my main love is corgi, dinky etc die casts but i also love toy soldiers and vehicles
I want to get more into die casts. Have some Matchbox Battlekings and Seakings but want more trucks and heavy vehicles.
I had the desert one, my father bought me extra airfix German Africa korps soldier packs and extra British and Australian north African packs, all up l had over 100 German soldiers 100 British and Australian soldiers added to my airfix combat pack!!
Wow that´s some army.
Great job dad!
Those Germans don’t stand a chance! A 251 verses a Cromwell?! And not a Panzerfaust or Panzershreck in sight!
Yeah they might have a problem on their hands lol.
This is why Louis Marx battleground sets were sold more and he was king of toy manufactures they were affordable to kids.
I look at it as one of the wonders of the world of the ancient world. And considering this, I understand that the modern toy industry has completely degraded.
Very good video, keep it going!
I want its so nice .. tanks and the panzer never saw these
I had 1/32 AIRFIX soldiers. Two sides. We used Britain's metal cannons firing matchsticks or BIC pen refills. They had a better impact.
Yeah Britains and Dinky guns where realy good.
My friend got this one for his birthaday ... he was super popular for a few months
Lol I bet.
I really like collecting old toy soldiers and sometimes playing with them but alot of the army soldiers are hard to get and expensive where i live
Great video 😊 Out of interest what the music you played over the set up combat pack at the end please ?
I can´t realy remember what music that is. Probably just some of the free music you can get on RUclips studio for making videos.
Great show. I went back to the 1980s. I still ever kept many plastic soldiers, which is kept by my Dad in China. Now I still want to buy very vintage infantry plastic soldiers. If you know which brand is the best, please recommend to me. Thanks.
I am not an expert but would recommend Airfix.
I now don’t feel bad that I never painted my soldiers. 😀
That's pretty awesome 😍
Wow, some close quarters combat there. Lol
I love Airfix kits, I have a shop at the end of my road that sells them, I'm taking my American friend there sometime soon. I also collect army men and police figurines. I also have a security figure, because some security guards are trained by special forces and carry weapons! I have a couple of war ships and a Roman legionary soldier by Airfix too! What I love about Airfix is their all based on historical artifacts and people, not sci fi and fantasy. I never enjoyed sci fi. Warhammer is entirely made up, and even some of their stuff is based on Gothic architecture, I'm sorry but I prefer real life over fantasy any day of the weak! I was always seen as an odd ball as a kid because I developed my own interests rather than going with everybody else, it was all elves and harry potter when I was at secondary school, when I was a teen I went to a boarding school and most of the boys there were into warhammer, not really my thing, who ever though of "wood elves" or "melter cannons?" I'm sorry but a history book is far better then a comic book or fantasy saga! Yet I'm the one conciderd a nerd for collecting army men and not pokemon cards! Who the hell are they to judge me? Kelly's heroes beats the crap out of Avatar! the only sci fi I like is old classics like Logans run or Tron, I'm old school!
When she was still with us, our Nan used to work at Airfix in the 1970s. We had just about every Airfix model and toy they ever made. I agree with you that models based on real life are better because they are also educational.
@@jjs3287 Yes, thank you. I love real life, so much more interesting and funny then anything artificial. Unfortunately that Arifix shop is now gone. People sometime rip me for liking real life, saying that fantasy is more fun. There is plenty of cool stuff about history, Nero, Cyrus the great, the America civil war, Saladin and Richard the lion heart. Ever since I can remember, I've ben different, whilst everyone else was playing dungeons and dragons, I was reading horrible histories or watching things like Kelly's heroes. I've always formed my own opinions and taste, rather then just parroting what everyone else is into or believe!
I'd love to find the rarest Matchbox playset...the Rocket Attack Set ....V1 on its ramp!
Don’t we all.
How many letters to santa 🎅 to get this. 🤔. Should not complain, a toy shop in Kilmarnock, Scotland was closing down and my father got me all the Britain's sets. Plus lots of airfix boxes of soldiers. 1976.
That´s a very nice dad :)
Super!
Were these ever sold in America?
I have no clue. Probably not as it is a large item and cost quit a bit to ship and then distribute to stores.
Had this
Lucky kid :)
I had this set but I'm sure it never had pillboxes or the carboard pieces, was it ever re-released without them?
Not that I know of.
Its interesting that you say that. I remember the green pill box and the cromwell very very clearly but not the grey one. Its like a gap in my memory. Maybe some of these items were sold separately at some stage?
It doesn't actually seem very balanced. Tank vs Armoured car. I guess they are just scenery though if you are going to play pill box war.
It was even worse with the 1/72 assault sets. I used to love the pontoon bridge set but the poor Germans got the bridge and sandbags and the allies 2 tanks a self propelled gun and a amphibious vehicle.
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