I love these old Matchbox kits and their positionable transparent stands. I built many of them in the 70's. Although the kits don't have too much details, all parts fit quite well and it is easy to build a beautiful model. With a few aftermarket parts and a little bit of scratchbuilding, they still make great looking models. Thanks for posting the video.
Wow! This brings back so many memories for me. I was 8 in '73 and can still remember buying this 109. I used to spend every single bob I had on Airfix models ( Tamiya were just too dear for an 8 year old). Thanks for the trip down memory lane.❤
I remember seeing Tamiya kits for the first time in the mid 1980s, they were indeed the gold standard and I did achieve the acquisition of a Tiger 1 in 1986, a great day indeed. However keep watching for more Matchbox builds they seem popular
I'm really glad you built it, it was made to be built and enjoyed, not to sit in a box gathering dust on a shelf. Subbed, Liked and commented as a result. Keep up the great work!
Loving your Matchbox builds, been binge watching. Especially when you do the build without paint, as I did back in the seventies, and painting now. You are also giving useful tips.
Roy Cross and Roy Huxley has a lot to answer for, with their wonderful boxarts! Excellent video! I have to agree, leaving....certain markings out is ridiculous, it defeats the purpose of us learning from history, to prevent it from happening again! I've got a few vintage Airfix, Matchbox, ESCI, Italeri, Heller kits to build, even have an old FROG Blenheim....nostalgia can be expensive! 😉😆😂
German owned companies by law can't display Nazi symbols, been like that since the de-Nazification of the country since the 1940s. Matchbox has been owned by Revell since the 80s.
Not including the swastika is like saying we are preventing you from fully completing your model because of PC. I hate to point out the obvious but aircraft of Nazi Germany did have Swastikas on their aircraft & that is fact. We in the modelling world just want to recreate, as closely as possible, aircraft from that period; we're not out for global domination!
@@AndalusiaGBSpringthorpe6227 as many comments have pointed out, Germany and other countries have Nazi symbolism banned since the end of WW2, so when these kits were exported to those countries the box art was modified from the 1970s to not include such symbolism.
I really dont know why people these days are so woke /sensitive when it comes to the Swaztika...sorry people but its a fact of life,it DOES exist and pretending it doesn't wont change history.
Yep, totally agree but we seem to be going through a phase of History revision. Hopefully it will pass and History will be viewed in context and perspective that it requires to be fully understood.
I loved that desert scheme so much, I finished my radio controlled one in that camo! Those top opening boxed kits are great, the first Hawker Fury I attempted to build back in 1973 must have been one of those.
I loved the matchbox kits when I was a kid, they went together well and with them being moulded in two colours you didn’t need to spend lots of money on paint. I made the 109 as a teenager about 40 years ago, such a great little kit, that one was painted and put on a desert diorama.
I've ALWAYS wanted to make this Matchbox bf109E I loved the colour scheme as a kid. I think if I was to build it now I'd do a 1/48 version in that great desert scheme. Matchbox was so important to me as a kid. I think it was a Hawker Hunter matchbox kit that was my first kit bought for me by my dad. You could buy them anywhere here in the UK, I got most of mine from the newsagents down the road.
Thanks for you comment, there is a similar theme in comments on my channel regarding Matchbox kits and I think I might do a little video summarising people’s and my experience with the kits 👍
I understand why I preferred Matchbox when I see the old one built up. I can't blame you for building that kit and leaving it unpainted, I'd have probably done the same.
I don’t remember the adverts but I do have some old Warlord comics with adverts for models including matchbox n them. I might dig them out and share on a quick video 👍
I remember and build both in theire original boxings as a kid. I did like Mathbox as a brand the best, before Tamiya came around. Thanks for sharing, both are quite pleasing models in the end
I'm pretty sure I saw you post images of this on IG as well? It is interesting the "2 colour" offerings they made with the plastic which gives an interesting finish when unpainted
Loved Matchbox kits - much preferred making them to Airfix when I was a kid. As well as being better engineered, they were often sold in newsagents, which meant you could scam your parents on Sundays for a kit when all the other shops were closed!
I have fond memories of these Matchbox kits from the late 80's/ early 90's. Something abou the Matchbox offerings vs Airfix and Revell, they were a bit more toylike but very consistent quality.
The Matchbox are a lovely solid mould and I like that the exhausts are separate making it much easier for painting. For some reason airfix moulded the engine but not the machine guns. I also found the airfix canopy to be useless with too many attachment marks and had to replace it.
a few years ago i was given some made but broken Matchbox kits including the BF 109 from 1973. no landing gear and broken propeller. the person who made the kit was quite liberal with the glue. the other kits i was given are the Brewster buffalo Hawker Tempest Bristol Beau fighter (with the long nose) and a Blackburn Buccaneer (fuselage and port wing only).
Hi, my name is Paul. When I used to work at the Matchbox factory in Rochford, I was in charge of the plastics store. When a certain colour had run out of stock, I would get the management to tell me to use an alternative colour. At the end 1988/89 we saw a down turn in the kits that were coming from the factory floor. I believe that must of the moulds were being stored for the move to Revell.
@@pauldyer3312 hi Paul, thanks for the comment. By the sounds of it they were running it down when you were there, such a shame as these kits from Matchbox are iconic but never felt or had the same appeal under the Revell label. Stay tuned for more Matchbox on my channel.
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Aorund the early 80s I built model kits in Germany. Due to the ban all swastikas on the decals were either cut out or crossed out with black marker before the kits were going to retailers. In latter case you could use spirit to remove the marker and still use that decals.
Lovely build and brushing the gloss coat in prep for decals is revelation. What and how did you apply the final matt coat and guess you remarked canopy for that ?
Thanks for your kind comment. Yes, the model did receive a matt coat and I did apply a coat of Humbrol Maskol to the canopy before applying the coat of matt varnish. The next canopy video I do I will demonstrate that technique 👍
Wiki on Revell Model Company: "Revell GmbH is an American-origin manufacturer of plastic scale models, currently based in Bünde, Germany. The original Revell company merged with Monogram in 1986, becoming "Revell-Monogram". The business operated until 2007, when American Revell was purchased by Hobbico, while the German subsidiary "Revell Plastics GmbH" (established in 1956) had separated from the American firm in 2006 until Hobbico purchased it in 2012, bringing the two back together again under the same company umbrella.[1] After the Hobbico demise in 2018, Quantum Capital Partners (QCP) acquired Revell.[2]" Revell was founded by Lew Glaser, making a variety of products. "The toy line was marketed later under the brand name Revell. Reportedly, the name Revell came from the French word reveille meaning "new beginning".[6] This name of course has no relation whatsoever to the old family name Revell.
Is the video too long or too short? Do you want to see more detail? What do you think I have missed out? If you give me more detail or what I’ve missed in the video I will try to include in the next 👍
Thank you for your nice answer.I would like your oppinion about matchbox models.I wish they would circulate again because they are ideal for novice modellers nad would condribute greatly in the expansion of the hobby.
@@creativetimewasting I would like to have them rereleased as Matchbox kits.When i was teenager my favorite matchbox kit was the pk-12 F-5a.Also i think very good starter kits for 1/48 the Esci kits.My speciality are the model soldiers Historex,Andrea,Pegaso and so on,but the i have started the hobby with aircraft kits which are my secondary subject in modelling.All the rest tanks ,cars,ships are coming after.
Great vid and presentation, 👍🏻 though the vid title sounds dangerously close to a copy of my own work? (Wellingtons, Victors, Harriers, etc) I take it that was just a coincedence? 😡 I would hate to send a 'Cease & Desist order'! 😂 Look forward to seeing more from you...☺️
Cheers Peter, any similarity would be totally coincidental as I have to say my videos are a bit rough around the edges and are done on the ‘fly’ I didn’t intend to do too many Matchbox kits but people really love them and I have quite a few of them. Not as many as yourself but I do enjoy building them too. I have been enjoying your videos too Peter and your last one about ‘Sharky’ Ward was excellent and I must congratulate you on it. Otherwise I will keep watching your channel as you have built up a nice community of like minded people and I enjoy that very much. Keep up the good work and get on with the Mossie! 😁
just wondering if you've built the old tool airfix 1/72 109 E, I think it was tooled in 1975 and is a really good little kit, in my view almost as nice as the modern airfix kit.
That was a pity, that Matchbox models had so coarse panel lines. Especially in their F-14 Tomcat. But, it was cured with a little amount of putty. Not a tough job. Matchbox's Bf109 E was the best of all 1/72 109 E's. When I remember Revell's early 109 E, I'm getting sick...
Havent make a kit in about 40 years but wouldn't mind reliving it I love matchbox back in the day I thought they fit better Thsn airfix. Never thought much of revel either. So if revel got the matchbox moulds how are the models now ? Do they still make the kit with the diorama with the vehicles?
They do but I don’t think they release them very often and I think the moulds are starting to wear out a bit. But eBay is the go to place for Matchbox 👍
Very nice build and comparison of the 3 models! Thank you so much for sharing! What exactly did you use to restore the canopy of the 1989 matchbox model?
Models are meant to be built - not collected. I was brought up from 1960's on Airfix. I did have this kit. I did the Romanian version - I like the colours - no other reason. I did find matchbox were better kits in my opinion. They seemed to go together more easily and appeared to be more solid - if that makes sense?
While I like the molding of the Matchbox kits, their plastic colors were horrendous, fully as bad as the early 1/48 Aurora kits, such as their metallic red Bf-109, yellow Zero and black Fw-190.
Underside of "Black 9" in desert scheme, it is quite funny...? Too grey for RLM 65, perhaps? In the final years of WW2 paint references in nazi-Germany were a pure "Tohuwabohu". Then RLM 02 could be anything from usual grey to greyish green or something else.
I love these old Matchbox kits and their positionable transparent stands. I built many of them in the 70's. Although the kits don't have too much details, all parts fit quite well and it is easy to build a beautiful model. With a few aftermarket parts and a little bit of scratchbuilding, they still make great looking models. Thanks for posting the video.
Love your matchbox vidéos. Such good time machine towards my childhood!
Wow! This brings back so many memories for me. I was 8 in '73 and can still remember buying this 109. I used to spend every single bob I had on Airfix models ( Tamiya were just too dear for an 8 year old). Thanks for the trip down memory lane.❤
I remember seeing Tamiya kits for the first time in the mid 1980s, they were indeed the gold standard and I did achieve the acquisition of a Tiger 1 in 1986, a great day indeed.
However keep watching for more Matchbox builds they seem popular
Lovely build mate, those matchbox kits are a joy to build and you did a great job!!
I'm really glad you built it, it was made to be built and enjoyed, not to sit in a box gathering dust on a shelf. Subbed, Liked and commented as a result. Keep up the great work!
Loving your Matchbox builds, been binge watching. Especially when you do the build without paint, as I did back in the seventies, and painting now. You are also giving useful tips.
Thank you.
Super builds there mate, who doesn't like Matchbox kits? I have one of these kits and am inspired to build it now, having watched this video.
Magnificent video on the making models ,one of the best guides I ever seen...Co ngratulations! 😊
Thank you 👍
That's a really fabulous build of the ancient Matchbox 109. Amazing!
Nice kit, thanks for sharing 😊
LOVE Matchbox kits
...and well done on 1,000 subs
Roy Cross and Roy Huxley has a lot to answer for, with their wonderful boxarts!
Excellent video!
I have to agree, leaving....certain markings out is ridiculous, it defeats the purpose of us learning from history, to prevent it from happening again!
I've got a few vintage Airfix, Matchbox, ESCI, Italeri, Heller kits to build, even have an old FROG Blenheim....nostalgia can be expensive! 😉😆😂
FROG Blenheim? Congratulations, if it had Finnish Air Force decals, thumbs up!
German owned companies by law can't display Nazi symbols, been like that since the de-Nazification of the country since the 1940s. Matchbox has been owned by Revell since the 80s.
Not including the swastika is like saying we are preventing you from fully completing your model because of PC. I hate to point out the obvious but aircraft of Nazi Germany did have Swastikas on their aircraft & that is fact. We in the modelling world just want to recreate, as closely as possible, aircraft from that period; we're not out for global domination!
@@AndalusiaGBSpringthorpe6227 as many comments have pointed out, Germany and other countries have Nazi symbolism banned since the end of WW2, so when these kits were exported to those countries the box art was modified from the 1970s to not include such symbolism.
I really dont know why people these days are so woke /sensitive when it comes to the Swaztika...sorry people but its a fact of life,it DOES exist and pretending it doesn't wont change history.
Yep, totally agree but we seem to be going through a phase of History revision. Hopefully it will pass and History will be viewed in context and perspective that it requires to be fully understood.
@@creativetimewasting agreed 100%
People are all worried about some old symbol, but they wouldn't recognize modern authoritarianism if it bit them on the backside.
Strangely enough the same wokeness does not apply to Japanese war flags or Soviet stars
Agreed all this wokeness is becoming the very thing it claims to be against hmm seem to remember a similar shift in society in 1934
I loved that desert scheme so much, I finished my radio controlled one in that camo! Those top opening boxed kits are great, the first Hawker Fury I attempted to build back in 1973 must have been one of those.
I remember building them. Fantastic
Built this in the late 70s, brush painted literal yellow...... thanks for posting this. Brings back memories
Yeah..me too, I build that 70s one brush painted and using house hold paint by guessing. All because I can't afford to buy model enamel😅
Great video. just subscribed. I love the old kits!
I loved the matchbox kits when I was a kid, they went together well and with them being moulded in two colours you didn’t need to spend lots of money on paint. I made the 109 as a teenager about 40 years ago, such a great little kit, that one was painted and put on a desert diorama.
you did right not to paint the 109 - love these old Matchbox multicoloured kits, so much charme!
I've ALWAYS wanted to make this Matchbox bf109E I loved the colour scheme as a kid. I think if I was to build it now I'd do a 1/48 version in that great desert scheme. Matchbox was so important to me as a kid. I think it was a Hawker Hunter matchbox kit that was my first kit bought for me by my dad. You could buy them anywhere here in the UK, I got most of mine from the newsagents down the road.
Thanks for you comment, there is a similar theme in comments on my channel regarding Matchbox kits and I think I might do a little video summarising people’s and my experience with the kits 👍
@@creativetimewasting Oh cool! look forward to seeing that. :)
I understand why I preferred Matchbox when I see the old one built up. I can't blame you for building that kit and leaving it unpainted, I'd have probably done the same.
Fantastic effort 🙏
Thank you for posting 👍
Remember the matchbox TV ad? “Bring it to life with matchbox”. Also, the catalogs were fantastic
I don’t remember the adverts but I do have some old Warlord comics with adverts for models including matchbox n them. I might dig them out and share on a quick video 👍
Lovely job Darling x
great video as usual. rarely enjoying the matchbox kits of old being made up. cheers stu
Oh happy days as a kid in the 90s of sending my old kits our the window on a line and watching them turn into molten plastic....
Matchbox my favourite all-time kits..such fun.....
I remember and build both in theire original boxings as a kid. I did like Mathbox as a brand the best, before Tamiya came around. Thanks for sharing, both are quite pleasing models in the end
Great build as always :)
Cheers @toysoldiernostalgia 👍
beautiful job on that 109 lad !!!
I'm pretty sure I saw you post images of this on IG as well? It is interesting the "2 colour" offerings they made with the plastic which gives an interesting finish when unpainted
Correct, it went up on IG yesterday. 👍
For me, Matchbox plastic kits always felt better than many competitor's offerings, and often went together more easily.
Thank you for sharing us!
Ah the memories of Matchbox kits
Loved Matchbox kits - much preferred making them to Airfix when I was a kid. As well as being better engineered, they were often sold in newsagents, which meant you could scam your parents on Sundays for a kit when all the other shops were closed!
Those are Luftwaffe aircraft fighters of the Luftwaffe German Air Force. Very nice model kits build & details. Looks awesome.
I have fond memories of these Matchbox kits from the late 80's/ early 90's. Something abou the Matchbox offerings vs Airfix and Revell, they were a bit more toylike but very consistent quality.
Airfix Spitfire Mk. IX was awful! Especially its wings, - bleecchh!
Brilliant video sir. I had this kit back in the day. As a 'good little Jewish boy' I had no issue with the rudder cross, it was history. ❤👍
The Matchbox are a lovely solid mould and I like that the exhausts are separate making it much easier for painting. For some reason airfix moulded the engine but not the machine guns. I also found the airfix canopy to be useless with too many attachment marks and had to replace it.
a few years ago i was given some made but broken Matchbox kits including the BF 109 from 1973.
no landing gear and broken propeller.
the person who made the kit was quite liberal with the glue.
the other kits i was given are the Brewster buffalo Hawker Tempest Bristol Beau fighter (with the long nose) and a Blackburn Buccaneer (fuselage and port wing only).
Hi, my name is Paul. When I used to work at the Matchbox factory in Rochford, I was in charge of the plastics store. When a certain colour had run out of stock, I would get the management to tell me to use an alternative colour. At the end 1988/89 we saw a down turn in the kits that were coming from the factory floor. I believe that must of the moulds were being stored for the move to Revell.
@@pauldyer3312 hi Paul, thanks for the comment. By the sounds of it they were running it down when you were there, such a shame as these kits from Matchbox are iconic but never felt or had the same appeal under the Revell label.
Stay tuned for more Matchbox on my channel.
Nice job...
Great video mate still see odd matchbox 109 at swap meets cheers
Kits are made for building! 😉!I build the Matchbox Me when it came out!A loooong time ago!i was 10 years old!
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Thank you, stand by for more trips down modelling memory lane 👍
recently built an Airfix Me 109 from 1973 & a FROG Macchi 202 from 1963 both great kits , do you think some may think that's a flogging offence LOL
I think models are meant to be built, I understand collecting but I really enjoy building the older kit. 👍
Aorund the early 80s I built model kits in Germany. Due to the ban all swastikas on the decals were either cut out or crossed out with black marker before the kits were going to retailers. In latter case you could use spirit to remove the marker and still use that decals.
That certainly holds its own against modern kits
This was my first model in 1989 :)
Built the me410. And have a few sets of 1/32 soldiers from them.
Lovely build and brushing the gloss coat in prep for decals is revelation. What and how did you apply the final matt coat and guess you remarked canopy for that ?
Thanks for your kind comment. Yes, the model did receive a matt coat and I did apply a coat of Humbrol Maskol to the canopy before applying the coat of matt varnish. The next canopy video I do I will demonstrate that technique 👍
Ah thank you kind sir for that top tip - enjoy the way you show in depth build of all processes needed to build a top kit - looking forward to more
Wiki on Revell Model Company:
"Revell GmbH is an American-origin manufacturer of plastic scale models, currently based in Bünde, Germany. The original Revell company merged with Monogram in 1986, becoming "Revell-Monogram". The business operated until 2007, when American Revell was purchased by Hobbico, while the German subsidiary "Revell Plastics GmbH" (established in 1956) had separated from the American firm in 2006 until Hobbico purchased it in 2012, bringing the two back together again under the same company umbrella.[1] After the Hobbico demise in 2018, Quantum Capital Partners (QCP) acquired Revell.[2]"
Revell was founded by Lew Glaser, making a variety of products. "The toy line was marketed later under the brand name Revell. Reportedly, the name Revell came from the French word reveille meaning "new beginning".[6]
This name of course has no relation whatsoever to the old family name Revell.
Between 35:25 and 35:35 a lot of work seems to be done on this build?
Is the video too long or too short? Do you want to see more detail?
What do you think I have missed out?
If you give me more detail or what I’ve missed in the video I will try to include in the next 👍
@@creativetimewasting No problem good sir, I just watched the half-track/Pak40/motorcycle video and all was revealed!
Pity the Airfix one doesn’t come with a pilot figure. Love those vintage kits.
Thank you for your nice answer.I would like your oppinion about matchbox models.I wish they would circulate again because they are ideal for novice modellers nad would condribute greatly in the expansion of the hobby.
Yes, excellent kits for the beginner. A lot have been re-released by Revell.
@@creativetimewasting I would like to have them rereleased as Matchbox kits.When i was teenager my favorite matchbox kit was the pk-12 F-5a.Also i think very good starter kits for 1/48 the Esci kits.My speciality are the model soldiers Historex,Andrea,Pegaso and so on,but the i have started the hobby with aircraft kits which are my secondary subject in modelling.All the rest tanks ,cars,ships are coming after.
Great vid and presentation, 👍🏻 though the vid title sounds dangerously close to a copy of my own work? (Wellingtons, Victors, Harriers, etc) I take it that was just a coincedence? 😡 I would hate to send a 'Cease & Desist order'! 😂 Look forward to seeing more from you...☺️
Cheers Peter, any similarity would be totally coincidental as I have to say my videos are a bit rough around the edges and are done on the ‘fly’
I didn’t intend to do too many Matchbox kits but people really love them and I have quite a few of them. Not as many as yourself but I do enjoy building them too.
I have been enjoying your videos too Peter and your last one about ‘Sharky’ Ward was excellent and I must congratulate you on it.
Otherwise I will keep watching your channel as you have built up a nice community of like minded people and I enjoy that very much.
Keep up the good work and get on with the Mossie! 😁
just wondering if you've built the old tool airfix 1/72 109 E, I think it was tooled in 1975 and is a really good little kit, in my view almost as nice as the modern airfix kit.
Good idea, I might try something like that in the future 👍
That was a pity, that Matchbox models had so coarse panel lines. Especially in their F-14 Tomcat.
But, it was cured with a little amount of putty. Not a tough job.
Matchbox's Bf109 E was the best of all 1/72 109 E's. When I remember Revell's early 109 E, I'm getting sick...
Havent make a kit in about 40 years but wouldn't mind reliving it
I love matchbox back in the day I thought they fit better Thsn airfix.
Never thought much of revel either.
So if revel got the matchbox moulds how are the models now ?
Do they still make the kit with the diorama with the vehicles?
They do but I don’t think they release them very often and I think the moulds are starting to wear out a bit. But eBay is the go to place for Matchbox 👍
Very nice build and comparison of the 3 models! Thank you so much for sharing!
What exactly did you use to restore the canopy of the 1989 matchbox model?
Good kit for its day, Romanian markings were nice
Cheers....having a can or 2 of Carlsberg while watching.🍻🍻👍👍
The Romanian making on the He111 from Matchbox are also a tempting option.
@@creativetimewasting never had to use any filler on my matchbox kits as the fit of the parts really IS that good
@@creativetimewasting Or put them on a better kit
@@jaws848 Meteor NF took a lot of filler, as does the Privateer
A tale. Two matchbox. Model plane
Please consider doing a Matchbox Brewster Buffalo in Dutch Airforce markings🙏🏻😀
I don’t have one in the stash but if I get one I will do a build video, stay tuned. 👍
Models are meant to be built - not collected. I was brought up from 1960's on Airfix. I did have this kit. I did the Romanian version - I like the colours - no other reason. I did find matchbox were better kits in my opinion. They seemed to go together more easily and appeared to be more solid - if that makes sense?
@@davidjones6778 I agree 👍
While I like the molding of the Matchbox kits, their plastic colors were horrendous, fully as bad as the early 1/48 Aurora kits, such as their metallic red Bf-109, yellow Zero and black Fw-190.
Underside of "Black 9" in desert scheme, it is quite funny...? Too grey for RLM 65, perhaps?
In the final years of WW2 paint references in nazi-Germany were a pure "Tohuwabohu".
Then RLM 02 could be anything from usual grey to greyish green or something else.
I don't think that doing scale models you are wasting your time.On the contrary is a very creative occupation.Your video is marvellous.
Thank you 👍
I have an original Matchbox BF109 and just acquired a top opening Matchbox FW190. Neither will be built lol.
The Swaztika thing is ridiculous
It's like writing a vulgar profanity on your model. It might offend someone, even 80 years after. Even 2024 years after the birth of Jesus.
The swaztika is centuries old and appeared in Ancient Rome and other cultures.