*the best part about the Matchbox kits, especially those that included a part of a diorama was that you could build it and have a finished result without needing to paint it....*
Great build, really enjoyable to watch, brings back fond memories. It’s great to see modellers get the full potential out of these classic kits, which is a stark contrast to the way we would have made them as kids back in the day.
The days before photo esch and half a dozen small and fiddley parts where a couple would do and as long as the finished model was a reasonable depiction of the original a few inaccuracies were ignored and overlooked . Today these imperfections would be criticised by the rivet counting modelling purists where accuracy is the be all and end of the hobby . What happened to fun and enjoyment ?
l love these old Matchbox kits . ln those days getting figures with the models was an added bonus we no longer see but Matchbox excelled by including dioramas with their military vehicles .Have this one to build mine being the Revell reissue which is nice to see these classic old kits once more available at a reasonable price . Good video .
Hi. You,ve done a really good job on this one. Its amazing how these old kits stand up against their more modern counterparts. A lick of paint and a good build and they turn out fine. Your absolutely right about the diorama bases. I don,t understand why other manufacturers don,t pick up on this. Its not like they don,t charge enough for small scale kits nowadays. A good job well done my friend.
I love those Matchbox kits, currently looking for that Sd.Kfz.11 set and the Char B1/FT-17 combo. Great build, I'd only open up the holes on the road wheels, it gains a lot. I've done it on my T-34 and A34 Comet kits.
Nice to see this kit again. Made this one a few years ago in an eastern front coloring. I collected them all when I was young. Just love that boxart. Great work on the kit and base, subbed💥👍💥
Fantastic build mate, I've got one of these in my stash, purely because I enjoyed it so much first time around as a young lad. You're absolutely right on the dioramas, they lift little scales like these incredibly. Makes it a real display piece rather than an out of place afv model on a shelf! Wish more manufacturers would take this onboard. Thanks again. James
My thoughts too . Wish more model companies would include figures with their kits but l think dioramas would be hoping for too much and if they did think how much they would cost . l have most of the Revell reissues of these classic kits in my stash waiting to be built .
Nice job. Matchbox were really on point with these kits with everything a kid could want in a box - vehicles, scenery and figures! Its a shame that Revell tend to reissue the tanks rather than these multi vehicle sets (like the Monty's Caravan) - perhaps an email campaign....!
Great looking model. I built some of those in the 70s as a kid and had great fun. The Bovington tiger has the disruption pattern but in a very similar colour to the base yellow, not grey.
Very good vid. I always thought the Airfix Sd.Kfz.7 and the Matchbox Sd.Kfz.11 were the most useful German kits, as they could tow / be posed with a wide variety of guns, from the Nitto 1/76 light flak to the 10.5cm, which requires a slight cheat by using a 1/72 Zvezda or ACE gun, but the larger scale not noticeable as there are no 1/76 10.5s, unless you count the Matchbox polythene horse-drawn version. I also thought the Matchbox had the edge as it had opening doors to the ammo compartment. But the big difference between your build and my 1970s builds is the spray paint. I used to brush paint all the wheels, tyres, etc, front and back on the sprues, avoiding any surfaces that needed gluing, which took ages. That is why my Afrika Korps still remains mostly unbuilt 50 - 60 years later in a cupboard! I do have one of these on the go at the moment, to be paired with a Zvezda le.FH 10.5 cm, which will require a thin bit of plasticard in the cubby to show 10.5cm ammo instead of 7.5cm, and I have yet to find a pic of a real one with open doors to show how many ammo cells are needed. I have also not seen a pic of how the 2cm or 3.7cm ammo was stored, but I assume it was in stacked boxes. Thanks again for the vid.
Thanks for your comments, most of the model was details brush painted. Only the main base coat a bit of dust and the matt varnish was airbrushed. I try to build as much before painting which can provide it challenges. 👍
What a great job you've made of that lovely diorama. My memory of Matchbox kits were that they went together well, bit like 1/76 Tamiya. I remember the first kits being released about 1973, the 1930s Boeing biplane with green and yellow sprues, and a Fury biplane with light blue and light brown sprues, I would have been coming up to 10 years old in December '73, but we moved a lot, so my memory is connected to different places we lived in Hampshire, Portsmouth, Aldershot, Fareham, and before that New Milton, New Forest area, so my dates are not clear. Anyway, pleasure watching you revive this lovely old kit that doesn't look particularly dated to me. Subbed, and look forward to your other builds.
Mine never looked that great. Pretty sure the camo is fantasy though. Are you sure any of these were ever produced with the zwastika? I never saw one outside of the old catalogues, and those look painted on. I think the mould was destroyed before production began. Early case of political correctness destroying a hobby!
Not 100% sure but I will have to buy an early release of the kit to check. Otherwise I did say in the video the model was been built in the ‘spirit’ of the Matchbox artwork and I also thought the camo was inaccurate.
@@creativetimewasting Yeah, I'm just agreeing about the camo. It's not impossible that someone painted like that though. Maybe they were running out of paint. Not sure when I got my first of these kits. It was pretty early. No mustache cross.
*the best part about the Matchbox kits, especially those that included a part of a diorama was that you could build it and have a finished result without needing to paint it....*
Great build, really enjoyable to watch, brings back fond memories. It’s great to see modellers get the full potential out of these classic kits, which is a stark contrast to the way we would have made them as kids back in the day.
The days before photo esch and half a dozen small and fiddley parts where a couple would do and as long as the finished model was a reasonable depiction of the original a few inaccuracies were ignored and overlooked . Today these imperfections would be criticised by the rivet counting modelling purists where accuracy is the be all and end of the hobby . What happened to fun and enjoyment ?
Great job , think I made that 40 years ago!!!!
l love these old Matchbox kits . ln those days getting figures with the models was an added bonus we no longer see but Matchbox excelled by including dioramas with their military vehicles .Have this one to build mine being the Revell reissue which is nice to see these classic old kits once more available at a reasonable price . Good video .
one of the all time classic kits, thanks for sharing
Sweet memories !!!! TY !
Great to see the full potential of these classics! Building these 40 plus years ago was ever as detailed! Great work! Thanks.
These were great (not-so-little) kits and some are still available under the Revell brand. Great stuff!
Hi. You,ve done a really good job on this one. Its amazing how these old kits stand up against their more modern counterparts. A lick of paint and a good build and they turn out fine. Your absolutely right about the diorama bases. I don,t understand why other manufacturers don,t pick up on this. Its not like they don,t charge enough for small scale kits nowadays. A good job well done my friend.
I remember building this back in the 1980s, mine had the symbol. Gerat content thanks.
I loved this kit as a kid when it came out :)
I love those Matchbox kits, currently looking for that Sd.Kfz.11 set and the Char B1/FT-17 combo. Great build, I'd only open up the holes on the road wheels, it gains a lot. I've done it on my T-34 and A34 Comet kits.
One of my favourite kits as a 16 yr old - nice work.
Thank you for waves of nostalgia still washing over me, excellent result!!
Very well done, great to see a vintage kit built again.
An amazing job, I had this set as a kid and I'd have given my eye teeth to get as good as a result as you did
Fantastic result from a classic kit!!! Gotta love these old Matchbox kits, keep them coming🙂
Nice to see this kit again. Made this one a few years ago in an eastern front coloring. I collected them all when I was young. Just love that boxart. Great work on the kit and base, subbed💥👍💥
Excellent build son 👍
Brings back a lot of memories I built that back in the day. Today I still build models and collect Matchbox models.
Fantastic build mate, I've got one of these in my stash, purely because I enjoyed it so much first time around as a young lad. You're absolutely right on the dioramas, they lift little scales like these incredibly. Makes it a real display piece rather than an out of place afv model on a shelf! Wish more manufacturers would take this onboard. Thanks again. James
My thoughts too . Wish more model companies would include figures with their kits but l think dioramas would be hoping for too much and if they did think how much they would cost . l have most of the Revell reissues of these classic kits in my stash waiting to be built .
loved these kits as a kid,i do 1/48 scale now but love the videos,well done
Great work _ I have one in my stash to do so thanks for the guidance 🙂
Fabulous job I have this kit and a few more I picked up at a toy fair . Just hope I get mine to look half as good as yours
That looks great! I'm tempted to get on Ebay to try & score one for myself.
Go for it, they are meant to be built 👍
That's a fantastic job sir, well done ❤
Looked really cool 👍
Great video
Absolutely love those classic old kits, but they are hard to find now.
Really nice job done
Nice job!
Ace job. Great kit. Thanks.
I never made this one. It's an awesome amount of diorama that comes with it.
Nice job. Matchbox were really on point with these kits with everything a kid could want in a box - vehicles, scenery and figures! Its a shame that Revell tend to reissue the tanks rather than these multi vehicle sets (like the Monty's Caravan) - perhaps an email campaign....!
Great looking model. I built some of those in the 70s as a kid and had great fun. The Bovington tiger has the disruption pattern but in a very similar colour to the base yellow, not grey.
Best kit i ever had 😾
Also there's literally hundreds of photos of DAK vehicles in panzer grey with magnolia paint over them
Very good vid. I always thought the Airfix Sd.Kfz.7 and the Matchbox Sd.Kfz.11 were the most useful German kits, as they could tow / be posed with a wide variety of guns, from the Nitto 1/76 light flak to the 10.5cm, which requires a slight cheat by using a 1/72 Zvezda or ACE gun, but the larger scale not noticeable as there are no 1/76 10.5s, unless you count the Matchbox polythene horse-drawn version. I also thought the Matchbox had the edge as it had opening doors to the ammo compartment. But the big difference between your build and my 1970s builds is the spray paint. I used to brush paint all the wheels, tyres, etc, front and back on the sprues, avoiding any surfaces that needed gluing, which took ages. That is why my Afrika Korps still remains mostly unbuilt 50 - 60 years later in a cupboard! I do have one of these on the go at the moment, to be paired with a Zvezda le.FH 10.5 cm, which will require a thin bit of plasticard in the cubby to show 10.5cm ammo instead of 7.5cm, and I have yet to find a pic of a real one with open doors to show how many ammo cells are needed. I have also not seen a pic of how the 2cm or 3.7cm ammo was stored, but I assume it was in stacked boxes. Thanks again for the vid.
Thanks for your comments, most of the model was details brush painted. Only the main base coat a bit of dust and the matt varnish was airbrushed.
I try to build as much before painting which can provide it challenges.
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What a great job you've made of that lovely diorama. My memory of Matchbox kits were that they went together well, bit like 1/76 Tamiya. I remember the first kits being released about 1973, the 1930s Boeing biplane with green and yellow sprues, and a Fury biplane with light blue and light brown sprues, I would have been coming up to 10 years old in December '73, but we moved a lot, so my memory is connected to different places we lived in Hampshire, Portsmouth, Aldershot, Fareham, and before that New Milton, New Forest area, so my dates are not clear. Anyway, pleasure watching you revive this lovely old kit that doesn't look particularly dated to me. Subbed, and look forward to your other builds.
Great build 👌
Very nice!
superb!!
👍👍👍
They had a DAK kit back in the late 60's early 70's that had the track carrier and an 88' instead of the PAK 40.
Airfix.
@@billblakey9401 thanks didn't remember the brand name
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Nice one. Subb'd!
These matchbox kitsare going up in price on ebay.
They are a dwindling resource.
Stop using Tamiya extra thin. Use Tamiya airbrush cleaner, it is exactly the same product at a fraction of the price.
The only bad thing of these Matchbox-kits was the wrong scale 1:76 instead of 1:72.
I think 1/76 was the standard AFV scale back then. Airfix produced in that scale too which was originally a model railway scale.
@@creativetimewasting In fact Airfix, Nitto, Fujimi, and Eidai all produced their military vehicles in 1/76 alongside Matchbox.
Not “eleven” 🙄 II = 2 not eleven
Mine never looked that great.
Pretty sure the camo is fantasy though.
Are you sure any of these were ever produced with the zwastika?
I never saw one outside of the old catalogues, and those look painted on.
I think the mould was destroyed before production began.
Early case of political correctness destroying a hobby!
Not 100% sure but I will have to buy an early release of the kit to check.
Otherwise I did say in the video the model was been built in the ‘spirit’ of the Matchbox artwork and I also thought the camo was inaccurate.
@@creativetimewasting Yeah, I'm just agreeing about the camo.
It's not impossible that someone painted like that though. Maybe they were running out of paint.
Not sure when I got my first of these kits. It was pretty early. No mustache cross.
Awesome mate! 🇦🇺👍🇦🇺
Thank you very much 👍