I have my Fan Art T-shirts online now. Pick your favorite officer. 10 for now but will be adding more. One shop for Europe and one for the US. Europe: toysoldiernostalgiaseu.myspreadshop.net/ US: toysoldiernostalgiaus.myspreadshop.com/
I got an idea do a vid on the guy who sculptured them. Whoever he was he brought so much happiness to thousands on thousands of young boys. Lord I miss the 70s
I have been trying to get info on both Niblett, Cameron and Stadden but there isn’t all that much on the internet. I need to try and find books on those three sculptors.
@thebruehlofspandau1665 I think it was all the kit you'd get with the support group that appealed to me, all those bits! And mortars! I has GIs and Japs too as well as the obligatory Jerries!
I had these when I was young. I loved the guy throwing the grenade. I played a lot with these guys. Parachuting into battle by dropping them from my hand.
I use to tease my sister, by lining up my soliers and vehicles outside her bedroom door. Then with a flourish I would open up her door. Scream Attack, throw my paratroopers in to her room and then start moving my troops and tanks in to her room. all the while giving orders and moving my guys in different directions as we tried to take over her room. She... yelling at me, would drop down to her knees and start pushing my toys out of her room. Eventually I would yell "retreat! retreat!". She still brings it up to this day.
Ron Cameron's 1/32 paras are one of THE nicest toy soldier sculpts I've ever seen. Bren gunner, high port, Kneeling sniper, sten gun and grenade and officer with map case are all design classics. Even the radio operator is cool.
@@toysoldiernostalgia US Para sculpt is right up there too. Always liked the fallschirmjagers as well. I remember a British Para being interviewed about the poor quality Argentinian conscripts he faced in the mountains of the Falklands. He said "give me a platoon of fallschirmjager... and we'd still be holding those mountains to this day" 😂
Fantastic. I read Cornelius Ryan books as a young child. The Paras have been an inspiration to little boys of all ages for donkey's. When I read 'A Bridge Too Far' and finally saw the film, the Paras were raised to new heights in my view. I bloody love the Airfix set. Excellent sculpting. Thank you for sharing your thoughts about this set. Wonderful. Cheers.
@@toysoldiernostalgia I can recommend the book. I read it on a very long train journey when I was around 13 years of age. "The Longest Day" is a similarly decent piece of history meets journalism, set in print. One of my favourite scenes in 'Bridge' involves John Frost and the surrender response. Sadly this was pure fabrication. I fell off my chair laughing when you propped the Para up against the wall. That is exactly what I used to do! As for your Forward Command Post; I am currently restoring 5 of them. I got them in bits and pieces through eBay for beggar all cash. They are coming along fine and look new. Thanks again.
Memory unlocked!!! About 40 years ago I was on vacation with my parents and they got me a bag of army men. The the figures were not as detailed as these with variance regarding their helmets however, the poses were identical. Yes the sniper was my favorite. Oddly enough, the one I had had a helmet instead of a beret. The beret would have been much cooler. As always, excellent thank you ! 😊
I love the end of your video where you show the figures 360°. They become works of art, which strangely enough they are now to kids from the 1970s. I could imagine myself going to an airfix museum if they existed
That building I suddenly recognised from my childhood. A farmhouse I think. The figures look excellent. I wish I could remember what games I played with them. I had a Stuka from earlier that dropped a bomb too. You could get some excellent toys then.
wow awesome brings back happy memories here in the UK - I owned the british paratroopers in green (commander with binoculars) , the germans in grey (commander with a pistol) and the japanese in off yellow (commander with a sword!) - when I was a kid I used to place my soldiers on a board with sand and buildings and then light small fires to give a battlefield smoke/fire effect!
You took me back 45 years ago when as a child in Greece I was saving every day five drachmas from my ten drachmas allowance untill I finally got 120 drachmas to buy these airfix and matchbox toy soldiers and later 1/72 scale model planes. Great childhood with very little but still really happy....
I had these when I was a boy. I was 57 and had a huge box full of many sets. Some I bought, but most I won off buddies as we used to gamble for toy soldiers playing cards, lol.
One of my favourites as a child along with the 8th Army and Africa corps. I now know i had the 1972 set. Thanks for that. I never noticed at the time that the figures kneeling were snipers with telescopic sights, but in that pose i used to instinctively set them up with walls to lean on/ hide behind.
hi brought back my childhood you did ps the grenade thrower yes he would have had a bayonet as the sten was capable of having it attached on the mk2 sten
I had the assault set with the Cromwell tank and half track. I always liked the pill boxes that shot out the discs and the officer of the paras always reminded me of Frank Spencer!
I try to keep a decent uploading scedule but life keeps getting in the way. I think you know how that works with the whole UA-cam thing. I´m gonna get some more Matchbox 1/76 vehicle/diorama sets. Maybe you could help me out with painting them as I think your style fit those models realy great.
@@toysoldiernostalgia I know, time is the enemy I have so much I want to build and put on UA-cam but work/life is getting in the way. Happy to come along on your Matchbox journey just let me know what I can do 👍
I still have my British Paratroopers large and small in their boxes, my 1/32 are in the Target Box. In the 80s I started putting the dates on things when I bought them, ornaments, clocks, books and comics. Wish I had that habit in the 70s, it would be nice to know exactly what day I got my Airfix soldiers. Great Video
I´m the same. I wish I could remember the time and place I got many of my childhhod toys. There´s realy only two toys that I have some kinda memory of were I got them.
Fantastic thanks for helping me relive these memories. I'm a far younger person who grew up in the 2000's but this was the first airfix set i got and i absolutely loved it. The snipers of course were amazing of which my set came with two, and I really loved the officer and radio operator. I also laughed so hard when you mentioned being annoyed by the bren gunner just walking because I absolutely related to that and it wasnt until I got my regular british infantry set where I had my two bren gunners firing from the hip. I remember I used to have a wooden jenga set and Id use them as building blocks to make bunkers and other fortifications to set them up in, such a fantastic time !! 💖
This was one of my favourite sets from Airfix. The office pose and the grenade thrower are really superb sculpts!! Wish I had been able to hang on to all my Airfix, Matchbox and Brittains sets from back then but thanks for keeping the memories alive with your superb videos 😊
I remember in the 70s I had an Airfix box of British Commando figures and the bren gunner, and maybe all of them, were wearing wooley caps. Anyone else remember that?
I had these when I was a kid as well as the Commandos set, these and the Dr Who Target books were the bribe of choice when it came to incentivising me into being good when out and about.
Wow! So nostalgic. The British Airborne were my favourite but as you mentioned lacked figures in fighting positions. We used to mix them up with the modern British Infantry.
A great set, I have these as well as the German Mountain Troops, British infantry Support Group, Ghurkas, SAS and Modern British Infantry. So many great memories.
Ha, ha. I used to Australians and Japanese fighting it out in the garden, which doubled up as a jungle. You could dig trenches and put snipers in rose bushes then take it turns to use clumps of soil to throw at each other. The clumps exploded quite nicely if they hit something hard. We trashed a bit of the garden though.
Didn’t have these Paras in my air fix collection which was mostly 1/72 scale however I did get to play in a 1/1 scale set with smock, beret and scarf as dad was a Para.
Great set, and one of my favorite. Excellent sculpting with lots of fine detail. The only drawback to this set is that you get two guys just walking around with their guns. It would have been nice to have the guy with the Bren Gun in a shooting pose, than just walking around it with it in a leisurely style.
I loved these sets, first job always count the men, I was only diddled once with 28 Gurkhas but when you got 30 or even 31 that was blinding! Happy days!😊
Nice Jerry that was like a scene in ‘A Bridge Too Far’ fighting in the streets of Arnhem. I wonder if the cover art was changed to tie-in with the film it looks like Arnhem bridge has been added to the artwork😊
I remember getting a box for Christmas when I was about 10. Best Christmas present I ever got. At about 20, I started playing Avalon Hills game Squad Leader. At 40, I was playing Battlefronts PC game Combat Mission.
Can’t believe you got that first addition box for next to nothing I’m happy for you sometimes people get lucky. I’ve been lucky in the last month or so with the smaller boxes anyway Jerry another interesting video keep them coming please we like them specially here in the UK. 🇬🇧 😊
I've still got three old quality street tins full of Airfix WW2 toy soldiers amongst a load of old toys. In the hands of an 9 year old in 1974 the original cardboard boxes lasted approximately 30 seconds....
Great video! I've got the full set of the 14 figure boxes. I've always been a bit surprised that they aren't more collectible as those boxes of 14 figures were only issued for one year (either 1977 of 1978 I can't remember which). I guess the target boxes are the ones most people remember so they tend to go for higher prices. I can't think of any of the Airfix figures that I didn't like, either 1/32 or HO/OO. They were all really nicely done. Britain's Deetail were always my favourite, but Airfix were so much more affordable.
You were lucky living in the midwest of the States. You could only rarely find those miniatures. Most of the time it was 1/72 scale in those, not 1/32. Model kits were different then it was 1/35 scale in Tamiya, Monogram, etc. Thanks for the look back!
The sniper is one of the best airfix figure ever. I agree for the un used brend gun. When i was a kid i didnt knew the sten gun, and the granate thrower pissed me off as a position, then i understood it
These figures paint up really nice too. Plus you can use these with the Modern British infantry as conversions, just need a sharp knife, some modelling putty, plastic card, glue and patience. The stens you convert to sterlings, the Bren to an L4 Bren, the sniper stays as is, because the No4T continued in use to about 1971, then modified into 7.62 with a very different barrel profile, same scope though if memory serves. The only figures you would struggle to find a purpose for are marching rifle and firing rifle.
This wasn't my first ever Airfix 1/32 scale figure set, but certainly one of the first. My box is also the green-in-yellow target box with the black crescent shape on the right. This was the only ''classic'' set (pre-1980s) that I ever tried to paint, with moderate success. As usual, many gun barrels have broken off 🙁 At least I still have the set! 😊
I remember having the radioman in grey in the late 80s, found him alone on the street or so if i recall correctly and added him to my "army". He was most likely a Hong Kong bootleg. I then had maybe 10-15 or so of the other paras in green, these came in one of those ultra cheap combat sets you could find in grocery stores back then, again illegal Hong kong copies.
Nice one, thank you. I had a box in these in 1972. By the way, contrary to popular myth, the purpose of the tail on a Denison smock and on subsequent DPM and MTP para smocks, was not to prevent the smock 'inflating'. Anyone who has worn a UK para smock during a parachute jump knows that the parachute harness itself makes such inflation impossible, even if one was wearing a taffeta ball gown instead of a para smock. 🙂 The tail on a correctly fitting para smock increases the wind-proofing on the ground when buttoned. Arguably, this was a design feature inspired by prototype garments designed by Windak. In practical use, many cut the tail off altogether.
Its a defensive grenade ie ; lethal range is farther than can be thrown so you "bowl " it overarm like a cricketer and take cover .If you "toss" it you can be "no-balled" as in having your balls blown off .💥
The only set of 1/32 troops i ever had a completely painted set of, complete with DPM smocks. After all that effort i just left the others in my collection in there plastic colour! 😊
these are actually the default toy soldier in the USA. Somehow American toy distributors decided that these were the molds that they wanted to pack for the majority of toy soldiers throughout the 90s. So if you went to the pharmacy and got a bag of toy soldiers it would usually be these guys. They used the variation without the beret and almost always excluded the radio man. As a kid I just assumed that they were Americans because they were pretty much the generic Army Men for my generation.
I had this 1/32 Para set in the late 70s, either as a present, or bought with birthday money. I painted mine up and played with them in my back garden along with a set of Wehrmacht and Australian troops. And my parents kept them, so when I had my own house they de cluttered their house. Eventually they were my son’s, and now they have come back to me. Definitely great for war gaming a Bridge too Far. Let me know if you want to see some photos!
@@toysoldiernostalgia I was so inspired that I found them in the attic. A few got painted up in desert colours (I think they joined the Aussies in fighting the Afrika Korps). Plus one of the Commandos with a Bren got repainted!
Excellent video and very timely in terms of the anniversary of the battle. Along with the Afrika Korps and the 8th Army, this was my favourite set. It's a pity that Airfix did not produce them in 1/72 scale as well. What is the building at 7:49?
Esci did a short run of hard plastic 1:72. They pretty much copied the Airfix Paras among others. They are kinda kits. Hard to find and quite expensive but lovely figures. Hasegawa did the same with the US infantry in 1:72.
@@brucemurray9127 I wonder if either ever paid any royalties to Airfix. Maybe not but I doubt that Airfix ever paid Herald/Britains for their Infantry Combat Group "copy" of their Khaki/Lilliput soldiers either.
Notice in the box art there is a bridge. They are probably referring to the Arnhem campaign. A bad time to be a British Paratrooper. See the movie "A Bridge too Far"
Oh I have seen that movie many times over the years. I was actually gonna include a short part in this video. The scene were the germans sent a soldier for them to surrender. One of the best scenes in war movie history.
I have my Fan Art T-shirts online now. Pick your favorite officer. 10 for now but will be adding more.
One shop for Europe and one for the US.
Europe:
toysoldiernostalgiaseu.myspreadshop.net/
US:
toysoldiernostalgiaus.myspreadshop.com/
i had those as a boy in the early 70s - haven't seen them since but all those details have been burnt into my brain - crazy!
They sure have a way of sticking with you :)
Still have the soldiers but the first box you showed brought back great memories thanks!
I got an idea do a vid on the guy who sculptured them. Whoever he was he brought so much happiness to thousands on thousands of young boys. Lord I miss the 70s
I have been trying to get info on both Niblett, Cameron and Stadden but there isn’t all that much on the internet. I need to try and find books on those three sculptors.
I hear you hard to believe it so long ago
I don't think you miss the 1970s, you miss being young again, no?
Airfix has always been my favourite my own personal fav is Afrika Corps & 8th Army...👍🏻
Those are two amazing sets :)
I always liked the British infantry support group and the German alpine troops. Great stuff!👍
@@ROBERTANDERSON-f2f british support was my first or second with german army. German mountain were my last full set.
@thebruehlofspandau1665 I think it was all the kit you'd get with the support group that appealed to me, all those bits! And mortars! I has GIs and Japs too as well as the obligatory Jerries!
I remember the British Support Troops with the 2-piece Vickers gun and the separate, sitting machine-gunner!
I had these when I was young. I loved the guy throwing the grenade. I played a lot with these guys. Parachuting into battle by dropping them from my hand.
I did that too!
I use to tease my sister, by lining up my soliers and vehicles outside her bedroom door. Then with a flourish I would open up her door. Scream Attack, throw my paratroopers in to her room and then start moving my troops and tanks in to her room. all the while giving orders and moving my guys in different directions as we tried to take over her room. She... yelling at me, would drop down to her knees and start pushing my toys out of her room. Eventually I would yell "retreat! retreat!". She still brings it up to this day.
Ron Cameron's 1/32 paras are one of THE nicest toy soldier sculpts I've ever seen. Bren gunner, high port, Kneeling sniper, sten gun and grenade and officer with map case are all design classics. Even the radio operator is cool.
The interesting thing is that the other two paratroop sets was sculpted by Charles Stadden. Same great details and figures, specially the US paras.
@@toysoldiernostalgia US Para sculpt is right up there too. Always liked the fallschirmjagers as well. I remember a British Para being interviewed about the poor quality Argentinian conscripts he faced in the mountains of the Falklands. He said "give me a platoon of fallschirmjager... and we'd still be holding those mountains to this day" 😂
As a Kid, I was a HUGE fan of the movie, "A Bridge too Far". So naturally this was my favorite 1/32 set!
Im 65, takes me back to the 70's
Snap, me too. Remember the Britain’s Models wonderful scale toys. A great time to grow up 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Ahh memories of school holidays and summer sunshine, playing with friends in the garden a long time ago.😀
Great memories :)
Me too for hours in the summer
Fantastic. I read Cornelius Ryan books as a young child. The Paras have been an inspiration to little boys of all ages for donkey's. When I read 'A Bridge Too Far' and finally saw the film, the Paras were raised to new heights in my view. I bloody love the Airfix set. Excellent sculpting. Thank you for sharing your thoughts about this set. Wonderful. Cheers.
So there was a book before the film? In that case I need to get it :)
@@toysoldiernostalgia I can recommend the book. I read it on a very long train journey when I was around 13 years of age. "The Longest Day" is a similarly decent piece of history meets journalism, set in print. One of my favourite scenes in 'Bridge' involves John Frost and the surrender response. Sadly this was pure fabrication.
I fell off my chair laughing when you propped the Para up against the wall. That is exactly what I used to do!
As for your Forward Command Post; I am currently restoring 5 of them. I got them in bits and pieces through eBay for beggar all cash. They are coming along fine and look new. Thanks again.
Apologies - I 'thumb-downed' by mistake whilst trying to expand your comment to read it all. Bloody sausage fingers!
@@cheesesk7450 I have those to :)
@@cheesesk7450 Fair play to you. Its only UA-cam, it isn't life changing. No worries.
Memory unlocked!!!
About 40 years ago I was on vacation with my parents and they got me a bag of army men. The the figures were not as detailed as these with variance regarding their helmets however, the poses were identical. Yes the sniper was my favorite. Oddly enough, the one I had had a helmet instead of a beret. The beret would have been much cooler.
As always, excellent thank you ! 😊
I love the end of your video where you show the figures 360°. They become works of art, which strangely enough they are now to kids from the 1970s. I could imagine myself going to an airfix museum if they existed
The British Para commander one of my all time favourite Airfix figures as a kid. Thanks for the video.
He always reminded me of Frank Spencer!
Oh my god , I was just transported back to my childhood . Brilliant ! Thank you 🙏🏻 feeling quite emotional 😂
No problems I know the feeling :)
That building I suddenly recognised from my childhood. A farmhouse I think. The figures look excellent. I wish I could remember what games I played with them. I had a Stuka from earlier that dropped a bomb too. You could get some excellent toys then.
It´s the Airfix Strong Point building.
With all those boxes stacked in the background, I can almost smell my local model shop again! Ahh the 70s!.
The smell of plastic and cardboard fills my studio (that´s also my living room)
@@timwingham8952 I'm 65, remember glue, balsa wood. The shop was more a social club. Everyone met up on Saturday.
wow awesome brings back happy memories here in the UK - I owned the british paratroopers in green (commander with binoculars) , the germans in grey (commander with a pistol) and the japanese in off yellow (commander with a sword!) - when I was a kid I used to place my soldiers on a board with sand and buildings and then light small fires to give a battlefield smoke/fire effect!
You took me back 45 years ago when as a child in Greece I was saving every day five drachmas from my ten drachmas allowance untill I finally got 120 drachmas to buy these airfix and matchbox toy soldiers and later 1/72 scale model planes. Great childhood with very little but still really happy....
I had these when I was a boy. I was 57 and had a huge box full of many sets. Some I bought, but most I won off buddies as we used to gamble for toy soldiers playing cards, lol.
Ah man.. seeing the box for the paratroopers brought back some memories I'd forgotten. Happy times
One of my favourites as a child along with the 8th Army and Africa corps. I now know i had the 1972 set. Thanks for that.
I never noticed at the time that the figures kneeling were snipers with telescopic sights, but in that pose i used to instinctively set them up with walls to lean on/ hide behind.
hi brought back my childhood you did
ps the grenade thrower yes he would have had a bayonet as the sten was capable of having it attached on the mk2 sten
I had the assault set with the Cromwell tank and half track. I always liked the pill boxes that shot out the discs and the officer of the paras always reminded me of Frank Spencer!
Ooooh, Bettay
This set is my favourite from Airfix, great detail and brilliant poses.
Keep them coming Jerry 👍
I try to keep a decent uploading scedule but life keeps getting in the way. I think you know how that works with the whole UA-cam thing.
I´m gonna get some more Matchbox 1/76 vehicle/diorama sets. Maybe you could help me out with painting them as I think your style fit those models realy great.
@@toysoldiernostalgia I know, time is the enemy I have so much I want to build and put on UA-cam but work/life is getting in the way.
Happy to come along on your Matchbox journey just let me know what I can do 👍
@@creativetimewasting great.
This was one of their best sets as I remember altough maybe to few poses.
Wow I grew up in the 70s and a childhood friend and I could study these boxes for hours in the sport shop. We rarely could afford them though.
I still have my British Paratroopers large and small in their boxes, my 1/32 are in the Target Box. In the 80s I started putting the dates on things when I bought them, ornaments, clocks, books and comics. Wish I had that habit in the 70s, it would be nice to know exactly what day I got my Airfix soldiers. Great Video
I´m the same. I wish I could remember the time and place I got many of my childhhod toys.
There´s realy only two toys that I have some kinda memory of were I got them.
I love your attention to detail. I bet it’s served you well in life 👍🏻👍🏻
GREAT SET AND REVIEW,HAVE ABOUT 100 OF THESE TROOPERS,GOT THEM IN 77.TAKE CARE
My all time fav set. Love the helmets and poses.
This was like my teenage years were unlike until i discovered Van Halen. Good times. Loved airfix. Loved their catalogues.
For me it was Iron Maiden.
@@toysoldiernostalgia I liked maiden. 👍
Fantastic thanks for helping me relive these memories. I'm a far younger person who grew up in the 2000's but this was the first airfix set i got and i absolutely loved it. The snipers of course were amazing of which my set came with two, and I really loved the officer and radio operator. I also laughed so hard when you mentioned being annoyed by the bren gunner just walking because I absolutely related to that and it wasnt until I got my regular british infantry set where I had my two bren gunners firing from the hip. I remember I used to have a wooden jenga set and Id use them as building blocks to make bunkers and other fortifications to set them up in, such a fantastic time !! 💖
Glad you liked it 😀👍
This was one of my favourite sets from Airfix. The office pose and the grenade thrower are really superb sculpts!! Wish I had been able to hang on to all my Airfix, Matchbox and Brittains sets from back then but thanks for keeping the memories alive with your superb videos 😊
I always remember the snipers with the scopes, great detail and video
One of the best figures from Airfix for sure :)
I remember in the 70s I had an Airfix box of British Commando figures and the bren gunner, and maybe all of them, were wearing wooley caps. Anyone else remember that?
I had these when I was a kid as well as the Commandos set, these and the Dr Who Target books were the bribe of choice when it came to incentivising me into being good when out and about.
Great figures, and the face of the officer even looks like a typical Britain! Very well!
The art works were brilliant.
I remember the 1/72 Acw, Napoleonic, celts and Roman’s, First World War, the British commandos etc.
Fantastic stuff
I remember those, my favourite purchases as a child ❤
I had this set when a kid
Wow! So nostalgic. The British Airborne were my favourite but as you mentioned lacked figures in fighting positions. We used to mix them up with the modern British Infantry.
A great set, I have these as well as the German Mountain Troops, British infantry Support Group, Ghurkas, SAS and Modern British Infantry. So many great memories.
They are fantastic time capsules.
@@toysoldiernostalgia I love to have the 4 Waterloo sets. Great figures and wonderful box art.
@@iainclark5964 there´s plenty of them on Ebay :)
Ha, ha. I used to Australians and Japanese fighting it out in the garden, which doubled up as a jungle. You could dig trenches and put snipers in rose bushes then take it turns to use clumps of soil to throw at each other. The clumps exploded quite nicely if they hit something hard. We trashed a bit of the garden though.
Didn’t have these Paras in my air fix collection which was mostly 1/72 scale however I did get to play in a 1/1 scale set with smock, beret and scarf as dad was a Para.
Great set, and one of my favorite. Excellent sculpting with lots of fine detail. The only drawback to this set is that you get two guys just walking around with their guns. It would have been nice to have the guy with the Bren Gun in a shooting pose, than just walking around it with it in a leisurely style.
@@svavelvinter this could have been easily done with more poses ;-)
My memory was that they didn’t have a character with a peit gun. Would have been good to see that and perhaps a character carrying an umbrella.
It was a great set of figures in this box. One of my favorites , alongside the US paratroops. I still have mine stored somewhere. 👍🏻
I loved these sets, first job always count the men, I was only diddled once with 28 Gurkhas but when you got 30 or even 31 that was blinding! Happy days!😊
I didn´t get that many sets as kid to realize that the amount of soldiers would sometimes differ.
Nice Jerry that was like a scene in ‘A Bridge Too Far’ fighting in the streets of Arnhem.
I wonder if the cover art was changed to tie-in with the film it looks like Arnhem bridge has been added to the artwork😊
The film was released in 1977, four years after the last version of box art.
@@toysoldiernostalgia Good research Jerry so it isn’t anything to do with the film then lol 😊
I remember getting a box for Christmas when I was about 10.
Best Christmas present I ever got.
At about 20, I started playing Avalon Hills game Squad Leader.
At 40, I was playing Battlefronts PC game Combat Mission.
I had this ones...brings back memories for sure!
loved mine
Really enjoying your videos. I think I had quite of these. Back in the day.
I had the box with the 1972 artwork. I had a castle and put the soldiers in firing positions. The ones standing were reserves. Fond memories. Thanks.
Cool set up with the castle.
Can’t believe you got that first addition box for next to nothing I’m happy for you sometimes people get lucky. I’ve been lucky in the last month or so with the smaller boxes anyway Jerry another interesting video keep them coming please we like them specially here in the UK. 🇬🇧 😊
I had this set as a kid.
Great set one of my favourites
Phwahh, you can just smell that guys house. Imagine the musk 😂😂😂
I've still got three old quality street tins full of Airfix WW2 toy soldiers amongst a load of old toys. In the hands of an 9 year old in 1974 the original cardboard boxes lasted approximately 30 seconds....
Great vid. Defo had these as a kid, in a bullseye box 😊
Thanks :)
The Sten Gun actually had a spikebayonet.
Great video! I've got the full set of the 14 figure boxes. I've always been a bit surprised that they aren't more collectible as those boxes of 14 figures were only issued for one year (either 1977 of 1978 I can't remember which). I guess the target boxes are the ones most people remember so they tend to go for higher prices. I can't think of any of the Airfix figures that I didn't like, either 1/32 or HO/OO. They were all really nicely done. Britain's Deetail were always my favourite, but Airfix were so much more affordable.
Wonderful collection and I enjoy your knowledge and obvious love of soldiers. Great collection!
Well I don´t know as much as I would like but try and learn more all the time.
@toysoldiernostalgia you are awesome and that's that,!
@@iggystoyparadesoldierrevie1092 thanks man!!
I had these soldiers as a boy. In 1977 I joined the Parachute Regiment and became a Paratrooper myself..........
That`s very cool.
You were lucky living in the midwest of the States. You could only rarely find those miniatures. Most of the time it was 1/72 scale in those, not 1/32. Model kits were different then it was 1/35 scale in Tamiya, Monogram, etc.
Thanks for the look back!
Luckily growing up in Sweden we had a lot of Airfix available.
The sniper is one of the best airfix figure ever. I agree for the un used brend gun. When i was a kid i didnt knew the sten gun, and the granate thrower pissed me off as a position, then i understood it
I think that Bren gunner made a generation of kids frustrated lol.
Terrific set. I have one of the target box versions 🙂
These figures paint up really nice too. Plus you can use these with the Modern British infantry as conversions, just need a sharp knife, some modelling putty, plastic card, glue and patience. The stens you convert to sterlings, the Bren to an L4 Bren, the sniper stays as is, because the No4T continued in use to about 1971, then modified into 7.62 with a very different barrel profile, same scope though if memory serves. The only figures you would struggle to find a purpose for are marching rifle and firing rifle.
With 37 pattern webbing you can mount the water bottle in the middle like the officer has but it’s very impractical due to it being hard to access 🔥
This wasn't my first ever Airfix 1/32 scale figure set, but certainly one of the first. My box is also the green-in-yellow target box with the black crescent shape on the right. This was the only ''classic'' set (pre-1980s) that I ever tried to paint, with moderate success.
As usual, many gun barrels have broken off 🙁 At least I still have the set! 😊
Great set 👌 and nice job man.
I remember having the radioman in grey in the late 80s, found him alone on the street or so if i recall correctly and added him to my "army". He was most likely a Hong Kong bootleg. I then had maybe 10-15 or so of the other paras in green, these came in one of those ultra cheap combat sets you could find in grocery stores back then, again illegal Hong kong copies.
I had a set of 1/72 paratroops, German iirc. From what I remember the set included a couple of collapsed parachutes.
Holy shit, I had the '72 and '76 sets! 😆
Excellent sir ❤
Top video as always
Thanks. Realy appreciate that :)
エアフィックスってなんか懐かしい！💕
british paras were nice .. fit nicely with the modern british .
Nostalgio overdose! *subscribes* 😉
Thanks man!
Always liked this set as it had the Radio operator, A pity Airfix didnt do this with all the 1.32 figure sets.
I had this set in the 70s
One of the best figures I had as a child. but I remember that they were not green in color, but beige. Between 1978 - 1983 I think. In Greece.
I think some company in Greece made copies of some Airfix sets.
Another good video, thanks.
Thanks man :)
Nice one, thank you. I had a box in these in 1972. By the way, contrary to popular myth, the purpose of the tail on a Denison smock and on subsequent DPM and MTP para smocks, was not to prevent the smock 'inflating'. Anyone who has worn a UK para smock during a parachute jump knows that the parachute harness itself makes such inflation impossible, even if one was wearing a taffeta ball gown instead of a para smock. 🙂 The tail on a correctly fitting para smock increases the wind-proofing on the ground when buttoned. Arguably, this was a design feature inspired by prototype garments designed by Windak. In practical use, many cut the tail off altogether.
Thanks. I guess I´m not the only one that didn´t know that :)
Great info.
They are so good to do stop motion
Its a defensive grenade ie ; lethal range is farther than can be thrown so you "bowl " it overarm like a cricketer and take cover .If you "toss" it you can be "no-balled" as in having your balls blown off .💥
The only set of 1/32 troops i ever had a completely painted set of, complete with DPM smocks. After all that effort i just left the others in my collection in there plastic colour! 😊
Thanks :)
Besides Paratroopers, most impressive
remembrances are British Fire Support
Group, Afrika Korps, Australian Soldiers.
the sniper shot though driver vision hatches om Arnhem brig
My favorite figure was the sniper from that Target box set.
these are actually the default toy soldier in the USA. Somehow American toy distributors decided that these were the molds that they wanted to pack for the majority of toy soldiers throughout the 90s. So if you went to the pharmacy and got a bag of toy soldiers it would usually be these guys. They used the variation without the beret and almost always excluded the radio man. As a kid I just assumed that they were Americans because they were pretty much the generic Army Men for my generation.
Had these.
I had this 1/32 Para set in the late 70s, either as a present, or bought with birthday money. I painted mine up and played with them in my back garden along with a set of Wehrmacht and Australian troops.
And my parents kept them, so when I had my own house they de cluttered their house. Eventually they were my son’s, and now they have come back to me. Definitely great for war gaming a Bridge too Far.
Let me know if you want to see some photos!
I´d love to see some photos :)
@@toysoldiernostalgia I was so inspired that I found them in the attic. A few got painted up in desert colours (I think they joined the Aussies in fighting the Afrika Korps). Plus one of the Commandos with a Bren got repainted!
the bayonet can fit on sten i think
love these videos and the airfix figures
Excellent video and very timely in terms of the anniversary of the battle. Along with the Afrika Korps and the 8th Army, this was my favourite set. It's a pity that Airfix did not produce them in 1/72 scale as well. What is the building at 7:49?
That`s the ”strong point” building from Airfix.
@toysoldiernostalgia Thanks, another blast from the past! Quite difficult to obtain now I would imagine. Do you do a podcast on the Desert Outpost?
@@stephenhunt3200 I´ll do a video on the three 1/32 building sets one of these days (one is not realy a building but a bridge/check point)
@@toysoldiernostalgia Look forward to it.
I hated the Bren Gun trooper but the rest pure gems. Target 🎯 box was my era
Nice video.
Great set. Pity they never duplicated it in 1/72.
Agreed.
Esci did a short run of hard plastic 1:72. They pretty much copied the Airfix Paras among others. They are kinda kits. Hard to find and quite expensive but lovely figures.
Hasegawa did the same with the US infantry in 1:72.
@@brucemurray9127 I wonder if either ever paid any royalties to Airfix. Maybe not but I doubt that Airfix ever paid Herald/Britains for their Infantry Combat Group "copy" of their Khaki/Lilliput soldiers either.
Notice in the box art there is a bridge. They are probably referring to the Arnhem campaign. A bad time to be a British Paratrooper. See the movie "A Bridge too Far"
Oh I have seen that movie many times over the years. I was actually gonna include a short part in this video. The scene were the germans sent a soldier for them to surrender. One of the best scenes in war movie history.
I had over 100 Airfix toy soldiers, my mother gave them away to a school jumble (rummage) sale without even asking me.
Oooops!
@@toysoldiernostalgia Indeed, not exactly the word I used but, she said I was too old to play with them.