Matchbox 1/32 Scale Vintage Plastic Toy Soldiers British Commandos
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Last one of the 6 sets Matchbox did back in the 70´s. It´s a realy neat little sets and reminds me of 70´s WW2 movies with a small band of soldiers doing difficult missions. I wondered what they would have called the movie with this unit?
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i totally get the 60's/70's movie reference...i always had a similar feeling about this set...i also remember the airfix commando set had an officer that reminded me of kirk douglas or some classic actor...
These were my favourite soldiers that I bought in late 70s with my pocket money. Every Christmas, my dad would take me to the Model shop in Swansea, South Wales. And yes, I would recreate The Guns Of Navarone with these guys and my German Infantry.
I have recently purchased a large box of mixed soldiers from the Internet for my sons. Brought a tear to my eye to find some of the Commandos in the collection. Now having fun painting them for my 7 year old son to cherish and also have fun with them.
With today technology, he loves filming dinosaurs vs soldiers movies. :)
@@jamesdaly1971 does he do stop motion or live moving them around? My son and his friends got to use all my old soldiers and a bunch of used I bought of Ebay. The played for hours with at about the same age as your son. He´s 15 now and paints a lot of board game figures but also old Airfix. Fun hobby to share.
He does live filming as he narrates a story. He likes me painting them to be lifelike, because he loves Jurassic World movies and nothing is better than seeing the soldiers eaten by his Indo Rex.
We also bought off Ebay, it was over 200 mixed up soldiers in a box, sold by someone who had also grown up. They are still better quality than the ones you get in most toy shops (except for the table top games).
I am currently painting some of those Space Marines for him, as he thinks that they look cool. He is still too young for Warhammer (which I have never got into as it became popular when I left home).
@@jamesdaly1971 you could check out Gaslands if you want to play a simple fun board game with him. Just a rulebook and then you just customize and paint Hot Wheels or Matchbox 1/64 toy cars.
Ah, the scenarios I played out with these as a kid. My imagination ran riot 😂. Thanks for the memories pal 👍
In my scenarios, the crawling one with the Tommy Gun and the knife would be on the front of the dingy and jump on the beach right away. Fabulous set. I gave away the dingy but I still have the crawling commando. I miss those days dearly.
As I already said about the Airfix Commandos, I wasn't Interested in these figures back then 197x-8y. They appeared james bondish to me. I don't get it why I didn' t like them. They were so good despite of their faults. Hmm, why I do want to play Ultima 7 now???
Did you notice that the one soldier in front on all matchbox packages looks the same? It seems tnat one person was chosen to be the model for all packages. 🤣
The matchbox figures look better than airfix for me
Yes, love this. Thanks for sharing.
I never saw anzacs or japanise in 132 wich was a shame
For some reason they never got released in 1/32. The boxes are in one catalouge so they were preparing to make them.
Just discovered your channel. Do you plan on doing videos on the Marx toy soldiers? They look a little silly compared to Airfix and Matchbox but they are very nice for the time. The Japanese infantry is a particularly fascinating one, as it has a very animated dying figure, a flag bearer (very unusual for WWII toy soldiers), soldiers stabbing with katanas, and a radio operator that looks like something straight out of racist WWII propaganda.
Great set! Always reminded me of movies like "The Guns Of Navarone" or "Where Eagles Dare". They ought to do more commando/spy figures, but it's expensive to produce original toy soldiers and businessmen won't sink money into something if they don't figure on making a profit. So I guess, for the time being, we'll just have to use our regular army guys as commandos until something better comes along!
German infantry the best set.... 🎉
I bought these in 1979 and still have them!
The guy looks like Roger Moore! Hard to get now and expensive!
Maybe he does a little. Simon Templar ;)
@@toysoldiernostalgia excellent collection. Was there Confederates in the western series? I remember 7th Cavalry, cowboys and Indians but thought there was grey confederates? Maybe I’m wrong.
@@KRAZEEIZATION do you mean in 1/72 or 1/32?
@@toysoldiernostalgia 1/32, I never liked 1/72 as they’re too small. The match box sets were excellent with far more figures. Pity they never made 1/32
Can't say I ever liked the matchbox, I preferred the airfix soldiers so much more realistic detail with airfix, matchbox soldiers were cartoonish looking in comparison.
That´s kinda why I like the Matchbox soldiers. Makes them different from Airfix so it´s not just another set with the same look.
Pity Matchbox never did the 1/32 scale ANZAC. I know they had the 1/72 though. Loved to have seen the donkey/mule in 32 scale.
I think Airfix got it more right when they paired British Commandos with canoes rather than that type of dinghy. I'm not saying they never used dinghys just that the canoes are the classic small boat for them. While we're on the subject of movies, see Cockleshell Heroes about the real raid on Bordeaux by canoe.
I think the dingy is probably a toy playability choice. I’ll check that out. Thanks for the tip.
Great toy soldiers - loved them! Great review!
Acabo de conseguir una caja de comandos !!.... y todo gracias a ver este vídeo , muchas gracias.
I really like your brilliant matchbox soldiers. Just started to collect these matchbox sets. I have German , German Korp and British(missing 1 soldier) all 80's. I'm wondering is there differences between 70's and 80's. I'm wondering also is there other places than ebay to find these sets.
I don´t realy know of any other places then Ebay. I´m in Sweden and we have a swedish action site I use a lot. But not that much stuff there all the time.
In some countrys like England, the US, Italy, France and Germany there´s usually som toy fairs and some just dedicated to toy soldiers and figures.
As far as I know there´s no difference between 70s and 80s Matchbox. But you find some Hong Kong knock offs with box from the 80s.
@@toysoldiernostalgia Yes, we have also here in Finland low supply. I have got some good ones. Sealed version was copy, with bad detailed solders. But I am happy with good ones. Still painting holders left.
They’re super cool. I had the same set albeit in 1:72 scale (never got the bigger ones) and I recognise every pose. They must’ve used the same sculpting and then just made them smaller to cast in 1:72.
Sorry but these are British commando soldiers and they did not use KA-BAR knives. British commando soldiers used The Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife. US marines used KA-BAR knife.
I have had tham as a Boy, so cool to see them again!
As I commented in the previous video ! One of my preferites
Compliments on your nice channel brings me back to my youth (the first one 😂) and early twenties, did you know that ESCI a company that has be known for 1.72 figures also made 5 or 6 1.32 or maybe it was 1.35 sets?.. As for this set i think it beats the Airfix one with a few mile although nothing can beat the grenade thrower on the other Airfix one imo.
The best of the best I loved these soldiers as a kid, in the end I became one….matchbox and airfix were superb figures to enjoy
Great never had this set as a kid, got them now. From a kids point of view they are brilliant maybe too an adult collector a little primitive.
Cool set 😎
Sure is :)
Such great memories popping up just looking at these!! Thank you
It`s almost like time travel.
Exactly!!
Los tuve yo bien pintados quedan muy bien en un diorama.los comandos británicos cumplían misiones muy peligrosas detrás de las líneas enemigas y ayudaron a ganar la guerra sin ninguna duda.
I had all of these kits;; old good time :)
I had the commando set in the 70s. Completely different poses and no special equipment
Matchbox you mean?
@@toysoldiernostalgia no they were airfix at the time
Always remember the ladder and dingy, think the 1/72 set had canoes as well.
Nice set, but very difficult to find- and very expensive when you do.
Not really that difficult to find. They show up on ebay regularly. I won this set today on ebay for $20 plus shipping.
@@mybluebellyI've been collecting 1/32 (54mm) toy soldiers for over seven years now. MARX, Airfix, Matchbox, Timpo, Jean Hofler, Barzo, Conte.....I am also active on several FB Ty Soldier groups. And if you found a full set of Matchbox British Commandos in 1/32 for $20- you were incredibly lucky. They don't come up often and a full set can be anywhere from $100 US up to 300. Even partial sets, usually missing the ladder, raft, with the knife broken off, go for over $60.
I like the pistol green beret. He looks like the green beret from the commandos video game series.
I played that game but it´s sooo long ago I can´t remember the characters.
That's one hard game, but it is an awesome one. You should play it again if you're a fan of ww2.
I checked Steam and it´s on there I guess that mean it can run on my current windows.@@minhkhoaluong25
@@toysoldiernostalgia did you check the right name for it ? There is commandos: behind enemy lines, commandos: beyond call of duty. I checked , they are still there on steam
I think I turned the N and O backwards are wrote no. I meant to say ON as I found them on Steam. Slip of the keyboard 😄@@minhkhoaluong25
it should be a Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife
I agree.
Not a Browning Hipower. WWII Commandos carried 1911A1, so ammo was interchangeable with the Thompson.
Makes sense.
Had those. Thanks for the memories.
Thanks for watching.
Never got this set but have tried to collect single figures from toy soldier shows after watching your video I want the box🙂
Have the1/72scale still loving it, i painted then, years of fun
Correct colt 45 also sykes fairbairn usmc carried kbars
Yo aun conservo los míos, los mismos que usé en mi infancia, en los 70, y los tengo muy bien conservados.
eso suena fantástico.
@@toysoldiernostalgia Soy coleccionista, pero mis pizas más preciadas son con las que yo mismo jugaba de niño, tengo toda la colección Matchbox, aunque alguna que otra pieza ya se me ha perdido. También conservo las de Airfix y otras marcas de la época.
@@martininsfran4107 Lo más valioso son los recuerdos.
@@toysoldiernostalgia Así es, y estos soldaditos son recuerdos materializados.
Not sure why Matchbox would give British Soldiers a Thompson machine gun. Those were given to the American NCOs. I don't think K-bar knives were around during WW2
British commandos used Thompson and 1911 quit a lot. Marines I guess got Ka-Bar issued towards 1942-43.
Back then, The USA before wntering the war had provided the UK troops lots of weapons including the thompsons. At the time, The brits hadn't invented the Sten yet, so they had to use the thompsons which were expensive.
Cool, I still have mine!
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