Glad you did these sets, I never new these 3 were even made. I am an American, grew up in the 70's-80's and would have loved these as a kid. I now want them as an "adult"
If you spend some time on Ebay you can find these sets for a fair price. Some want an arm and a leg for them but good deals show up from time to time. If you´re in the US there should be quit a few toy soldier fairs to check out as well.
I m french and my dad had it too ! Born in 76, i played with them hard between 80 and 85 breaking some 😂. boxes may be somewhere in his attic..... thank you for those old good memories..........Time flies.
The poses are very well done in this set! Very nice figures! I like the trumpeter best! Man, you're moving me back in time, and I want to have these! 😂
As kids in the 1960's and 70's Marx was the gold standard. They did a set in 1972, Battle of Little Big Horn. 16 excellent 7th cavalry figures in aqua blue, 12 foot and 4 mounted. Then did a set of Indians 13 poses but only 1 mounted. These Airfix 7th cavalry and Sioux Indians were Godsends! Yes, the yellow wasn't ideal but it really augmented the forces. And Airfix Sioux set had 10 foot and 2 mounted, much needed! Also, the Marx Indians had only one pose with a rifle. Airfix set had about 6 with rifles, so again, great additions to our armies. And they matched up perfectly with the Marx figures.
All the Marx stuff never got over here to Sweden back then. It´s a shame because those big play sets looks so cool. But importing them over here back them would have put the price way high in the stores. But one of these days I will get a few of them.
I have some of these figures.... didn't know they were made by Airfix.... I bought them in a small plastic bag in a 2nd hand shop. Some of the horses I "gave" to my army of Middelage Knights... There are also some cowboys included, wich are also a part of my collection. (I have some very old, and one 1:16 figure with a carabine and a Fez, an African type) Anyway, they are well made indeed. Good poses and the detail is very very good. Your father did a good job with painting them. The 7th Cavalary sign on the flag, and the flatbed coach made of balsa is very well made indeed.
As soon as I saw your favorite I was thinking that if he let go of the scabbard that it would cause him to trip over it. Weird pose. These came out long after my cowboys and Indians playtime had ended, but I enjoyed countless hours with my Tim Mee versions as a kid.
Short answer: YES! I commented yesterday on another good video about the Airfix US Cavalry. I still have my original set which I bought from Johnson & Clarkes in Staines in 1976.
Unfortunately not a set I ever owned. They were released a few years after I had stopped collecting Airfix figures. Had them in 1/72nd scale as I was fanatical about the 7th. Cavalry as a kid and my dad built me a bespoke wooden fort. Always watched the John Wayne films about the Indian Wars and "Branded" which was a great tv series.
I'd forgotten about the 7th Cavalry set until this popped up on my feed. I had a few of the 1/32 sets and some random assorted hand me downs of others. I actually played with some of these Cavalry guys when I was a kid, but it was mostly the WW2 figures I wanted to play with. I used to play with them with the neighbour's, we called 1/32 playing big soldiers and 1/72 and 176 playing small soldiers with a mix of Airfix and Matchbox soldiers along with aircraft and armor built from kits. I'd forgotten how varied the Airfix 1/32 range was.
Same here. We called them big and small soldiers. Small ones was more fun for indoors play as we usually had many more and could do larger battles. Large ones for playing outdoors were we could make more ”realistic” battlefields. I never realy played Wild West with the Airfix figures as they were my dads. But I had a bunch of Britains and Timpo wild west figures. But playing with friends we used mainly ww2 figures.
I have the full set of Airfix 1/32 scale figures too, but I do envy you all those clean, pristine boxes. I stopped once I'd got the full range. Collecting was starting to get too expensive, certainly for polythene figures that will start to crumble in a few more years.
Another blast from the past. I had all those Airfix figures as a kid and they provided hours and hours of fun playtime. Now as an adult I feel that the later 1/32 Airfix Western figures were sculpted by the same guys who did the Britains Deetails Western figures. Anybody who knows for sure?
Well yes as far as I can find Ron Cameron did most of the Airfix 1/32 and also the Britains Deetail line. But some could have been made by Charles Stadden. Info on who sculpted the different sets is hard to find.
Hello from George. I hope I'm not a nuisance with all these messages. I couldn't help but I missed the 7th Cavalry figures. Something I wanted. They look great. I looked for those and found a few but super expensive. I found the modern British, German, SAS also very expensive. Especially from US currency exchange to AU I'd be paying double the price. I have to think about that. I did find some of the Atlantic brand figures also. Unfortunately I'm not wealthy otherwise I'd collect as much as you. I don't own a big property so I'm surrounded by all my model kits in their boxes. I'm running out of space. The Airfix western series are again very nicely done for 1970s. Love watching those packages opened like Christmas presents. Enjoy for me too.All the best from George down under Melbourne Victoria Australia 👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️
I´m not wealthy but I pretty much only spend money on things I like. I don´t buy much clothes or eat out. I live in a flat that´s decent size but nothing huge. I just prioritize and focus on tings I enjoy and not what´s expected of me by other peoples norms. If you´re patience you´ll find them on Ebay in Australia for a good deal on shipping.
Nicht ganz mein Gebiet,ich bevorzuge die Napoleonischen Kriege.Aber trotzdem sehr interessant denn als Kind waren auch bei mir Cowboys,Indianer,Nord und Südstaatler absolut in.😊👍👍👍🇩🇪❤🇨🇵
I agree these are this is the best set ever by Airfix. The Poses are superb. It’s just a shame that we never got a series 2 or a variant of these or the other Western sets. Great video 👍👍.
@@toysoldiernostalgia Yes I agree. It’s a shame that Toy Soldiers fell by the wayside so quickly after Star Wars. But I loved getting the sets and toys that I had as a kid in 1970’s. So I am not gutted or upset etc. Just thankful. I picked up some Cavalry figures yesterday so had some great memories flooding back 👍👍
Yeah, I remember the cowboys and Indians but not these. Maybe I'd grown out of the larger scale soldiers by the time these were released. Such a long time ago it's hard to remember now.
My brother had a box of them, they were really beautiful soldiers, pity for the sabres that weren't carried on campaign, f.e. at Little Big Horn no one carried sabres, that were seen as an indrance. Airfix should've done as for their 8th Army and DAK and remade them in 1/72, replacing the lesser US Cavalry set, and also adding some more poses.
The worst thing about the 7th Cav figures is being yellow. I remember as a kid buying the box, and when getting home seeing the figures as yellow! Plus the bright yellow made the detail hard to see.
Historical note; The one item toy manufacturers (and Hollywood) always overlook is the large Bowie knife that most cavalry guys carried. If you go back and look at the old photos you'll see every trooper had one, because firearms were simply not that reliable back then. Also, in addition to cavalry proper they also had something called "Mounted Infantry" units during the Indian wars. These were basically foot soldiers paired with surplus horses from Indian raids, and used as a kind of "quick fix" cavalry. Yes the Airfix 7th Cavalry are unquestionably top of the line, but I'd like to put in a good word for Elastolin/Preiser of Germany which also has great Cavalry figures. Germans love the Old West and actually have clubs where people dress up like troopers and go out on maneuvers,etc.
The 1/32 US 7th Cavalry set was the very first Airfix set that I bought when I was about 5. I got that and the Cowboys set. Never did get the Native Indian one though :(
@@toysoldiernostalgia This was when I was around 5, so early 80s, and these sets were EVERYWHERE here. Airfix, Britains, Matchbox, ESCI. It was a running joke in our family that whenever we went out we had to go to the toy shop first otherwise I'd complain the whole time. Then, as soon as I'd bought a box of soldiers I complained the rest of the time anyway cos I wanted to go home and start playing with them! Sad, but today you really have to hunt around to find anything.
Hear, hear - I absolutely agree that this is Airfix's finest hour. When they started the policy of 'down-sizing' their larger scale figures to HO/00, I longed for them to down-size their wild west sets. Sadly they never did - but the ever-present spectre of foreign 'copy' figures did eventually down-size the Cowboys & Indians, a handful of which I am lucky enough to own, but never the Cavalry. I wait for the day when 3D scanning is affordable- and accurate- enough for me to scan my Cavalry set, reduce it in size and 3D print the figures in the smaller scale. I suspect the master molds have been long since lost, as Airfix (Humbrol) have never reproduced these wonderful figures.
I will have to try to find some down scaled copies of cowboys and indians. Sound cool. I´m in the process of trying to upscale the Matchbox Anzac figures. I have a great resin 3d printer and as far as I can tell there´s a few great apps for 3d scanning that should work fine.
@@toysoldiernostalgia I'd be hugely interested to learn/see/hear how you get on with the up-scaling - those Anzac figures are real beauties, too. Good luck!
This and the Infantry Support Group for the 54s have to be the two standouts. Problem with the Airfix Western stuff was the competition from Timpo in 54mm and Atlantic in 20mm were both outstanding and in the case of Timpo as readily available.
@@toysoldiernostalgia they were indeed but as you say expensive, speaking from an English perspective, I only remember them being available through larger dedicated toyshops found in cities wheras Airfix and Timpo (just talking 70s platics) seemed to be available at newsagents and smaller toyshops so available almost universally. There were also the pot metal Metallions which seemed to be, from memory, pretty universal but lacking colour and more of a fad than anything else. My late father used to do a lot in the bankrupt shop stock line and we (producer bankruptcies aside) often had smallish (except on one occasion where the Airfix deadstock quantity was huge) quantities of Airfix and Timpo through the business, much to my joy as a youngster, but I cannot recall any Britains. I don't know how Britain's distributed but it could have been sale or return which itself suggests they were set up for larger orders. I can't comment on Matchbox as one of my late father's business partners was a distributor for Matchbox and I had a ready supply but my memories seem to me to be a Christmas earlier than the release dates quoted on collector sites for the playsets (cars didn't interest me so they do not stick in my memory) so I do wonder if I was an unknowing playtester.
Who made the American infantry on the two boxes in the background on the left, with the prone .30 caliber Browning on a tripod? Never seen those before.
Glad you did these sets, I never new these 3 were even made. I am an American, grew up in the 70's-80's and would have loved these as a kid. I now want them as an "adult"
If you spend some time on Ebay you can find these sets for a fair price. Some want an arm and a leg for them but good deals show up from time to time. If you´re in the US there should be quit a few toy soldier fairs to check out as well.
would love to get a box of these and paint them as Confederate Cavalry, great video
Used to have these back in the day, happy memories
I m french and my dad had it too ! Born in 76, i played with them hard between 80 and 85 breaking some 😂. boxes may be somewhere in his attic..... thank you for those old good memories..........Time flies.
My pleasure. Thanks for watching.
Great channel. Airfix provided me some of the most cherished memories of my childhood during the 70s.
Same here.
Nice to see they cast the horses with base. The 1-76 airfix horse bases are such a pain.
I loved this set. The poses are so full of action. For some reason, I painted mine with "metallic" blue trousers back in the 70's.
Interesting color choise 😃
The poses are very well done in this set! Very nice figures! I like the trumpeter best! Man, you're moving me back in time, and I want to have these! 😂
As kids in the 1960's and 70's Marx was the gold standard. They did a set in 1972, Battle of Little Big Horn. 16 excellent 7th cavalry figures in aqua blue, 12 foot and 4 mounted. Then did a set of Indians 13 poses but only 1 mounted. These Airfix 7th cavalry and Sioux Indians were Godsends! Yes, the yellow wasn't ideal but it really augmented the forces. And Airfix Sioux set had 10 foot and 2 mounted, much needed! Also, the Marx Indians had only one pose with a rifle. Airfix set had about 6 with rifles, so again, great additions to our armies. And they matched up perfectly with the Marx figures.
All the Marx stuff never got over here to Sweden back then. It´s a shame because those big play sets looks so cool. But importing them over here back them would have put the price way high in the stores. But one of these days I will get a few of them.
I have some of these figures.... didn't know they were made by Airfix.... I bought them in a small plastic bag in a 2nd hand shop. Some of the horses I "gave" to my army of Middelage Knights... There are also some cowboys included, wich are also a part of my collection. (I have some very old, and one 1:16 figure with a carabine and a Fez, an African type)
Anyway, they are well made indeed. Good poses and the detail is very very good. Your father did a good job with painting them. The 7th Cavalary sign on the flag, and the flatbed coach made of balsa is very well made indeed.
As soon as I saw your favorite I was thinking that if he let go of the scabbard that it would cause him to trip over it. Weird pose. These came out long after my cowboys and Indians playtime had ended, but I enjoyed countless hours with my Tim Mee versions as a kid.
Short answer: YES! I commented yesterday on another good video about the Airfix US Cavalry. I still have my original set which I bought from Johnson & Clarkes in Staines in 1976.
One doesn't t find them in the shops anymore. What a pity.
Unfortunately not a set I ever owned. They were released a few years after I had stopped collecting Airfix figures. Had them in 1/72nd scale as I was fanatical about the 7th. Cavalry as a kid and my dad built me a bespoke wooden fort. Always watched the John Wayne films about the Indian Wars and "Branded" which was a great tv series.
Ich habe sie alle zu Hause.Die Indianer,Cowboys und die 7TH KAVALLERIE.Schade Das sie keine Mexikaner gemacht haben. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I'd forgotten about the 7th Cavalry set until this popped up on my feed. I had a few of the 1/32 sets and some random assorted hand me downs of others. I actually played with some of these Cavalry guys when I was a kid, but it was mostly the WW2 figures I wanted to play with. I used to play with them with the neighbour's, we called 1/32 playing big soldiers and 1/72 and 176 playing small soldiers with a mix of Airfix and Matchbox soldiers along with aircraft and armor built from kits. I'd forgotten how varied the Airfix 1/32 range was.
Same here. We called them big and small soldiers. Small ones was more fun for indoors play as we usually had many more and could do larger battles. Large ones for playing outdoors were we could make more ”realistic” battlefields.
I never realy played Wild West with the Airfix figures as they were my dads. But I had a bunch of Britains and Timpo wild west figures.
But playing with friends we used mainly ww2 figures.
I have the full set of Airfix 1/32 scale figures too, but I do envy you all those clean, pristine boxes. I stopped once I'd got the full range. Collecting was starting to get too expensive, certainly for polythene figures that will start to crumble in a few more years.
Never got as a kid but would have loved it 👍
One of the better sets for sure, though I do like the British Paratroops too.
Yes it´s hard to pick just one favorite set.
Another blast from the past. I had all those Airfix figures as a kid and they provided hours and hours of fun playtime. Now as an adult I feel that the later 1/32 Airfix Western figures were sculpted by the same guys who did the Britains Deetails Western figures.
Anybody who knows for sure?
Well yes as far as I can find Ron Cameron did most of the Airfix 1/32 and also the Britains Deetail line. But some could have been made by Charles Stadden. Info on who sculpted the different sets is hard to find.
Hello from George. I hope I'm not a nuisance with all these messages. I couldn't help but I missed the 7th Cavalry figures. Something I wanted. They look great. I looked for those and found a few but super expensive. I found the modern British, German, SAS also very expensive. Especially from US currency exchange to AU I'd be paying double the price. I have to think about that. I did find some of the Atlantic brand figures also. Unfortunately I'm not wealthy otherwise I'd collect as much as you. I don't own a big property so I'm surrounded by all my model kits in their boxes. I'm running out of space. The Airfix western series are again very nicely done for 1970s. Love watching those packages opened like Christmas presents. Enjoy for me too.All the best from George down under Melbourne Victoria Australia 👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️
I´m not wealthy but I pretty much only spend money on things I like. I don´t buy much clothes or eat out. I live in a flat that´s decent size but nothing huge. I just prioritize and focus on tings I enjoy and not what´s expected of me by other peoples norms.
If you´re patience you´ll find them on Ebay in Australia for a good deal on shipping.
Great details on this sets! 👌
Brilliant set
It sure is :)
Nicht ganz mein Gebiet,ich bevorzuge die Napoleonischen Kriege.Aber trotzdem sehr interessant denn als Kind waren auch bei mir Cowboys,Indianer,Nord und Südstaatler absolut in.😊👍👍👍🇩🇪❤🇨🇵
Napoleonic era is cool to 😀
I agree these are this is the best set ever by Airfix.
The Poses are superb. It’s just a shame that we never got a series 2 or a variant of these or the other Western sets.
Great video 👍👍.
Yes there´s so many sets that I can imagne Airfix doing that would have been amazing.
@@toysoldiernostalgia Yes I agree.
It’s a shame that Toy Soldiers fell by the wayside so quickly after Star Wars.
But I loved getting the sets and toys that I had as a kid in 1970’s.
So I am not gutted or upset etc.
Just thankful.
I picked up some Cavalry figures yesterday so had some great memories flooding back 👍👍
My favorite toy soldier western era U.S. Calvary would love to have this set to my collection of other calvary figures 👍
I didn't even know that Airfix had done these in 1/32 they're pretty bloody good.
Yeah, I remember the cowboys and Indians but not these. Maybe I'd grown out of the larger scale soldiers by the time these were released. Such a long time ago it's hard to remember now.
Excellent video, I had these as boy, nice to see them again after all this time. That play out music is surely..."cum on feel the noize" by Slade ????
I always wished that Airfix made this set in powder blue to match the Marx cavalry.
Great set with well done figures.
Had the 7th cavalry and the Indians which were in red plastic. I agree they are great poses. I think I played with them the most!
All three of the Wild West sets are super cool. I did videos on all three.
My brother had a box of them, they were really beautiful soldiers, pity for the sabres that weren't carried on campaign, f.e. at Little Big Horn no one carried sabres, that were seen as an indrance. Airfix should've done as for their 8th Army and DAK and remade them in 1/72, replacing the lesser US Cavalry set, and also adding some more poses.
A great video... I had the 1/72 version if this.
Очень детализированные, отличные солдатики!!!
The worst thing about the 7th Cav figures is being yellow. I remember as a kid buying the box, and when getting home seeing the figures as yellow! Plus the bright yellow made the detail hard to see.
l loved this set , wish they werent yellow but thry were great fun.
I`m so used to the colors that Airfix made so can`t see them any other way but a nice light blueish gray would have been nice.
Historical note; The one item toy manufacturers (and Hollywood) always overlook is the large Bowie knife that most cavalry guys carried. If you go back and look at the old photos you'll see every trooper had one, because firearms were simply not that reliable back then. Also, in addition to cavalry proper they also had something called "Mounted Infantry" units during the Indian wars. These were basically foot soldiers paired with surplus horses from Indian raids, and used as a kind of "quick fix" cavalry. Yes the Airfix 7th Cavalry are unquestionably top of the line, but I'd like to put in a good word for Elastolin/Preiser of Germany which also has great Cavalry figures. Germans love the Old West and actually have clubs where people dress up like troopers and go out on maneuvers,etc.
Thanks for the great info. I will check out the Elastolin/Prieser figures.
None of the Airfix figure sets were ever completely authentic, but that was never their intention anyway.
Well, Airfix is a MODEL company, not a toy company. And presumably models are supposed to be authentic. So I disagree with your comment.@@HO-bndk
The 1/32 US 7th Cavalry set was the very first Airfix set that I bought when I was about 5. I got that and the Cowboys set. Never did get the Native Indian one though :(
Wow not bad getting both sets though.
@@toysoldiernostalgia This was when I was around 5, so early 80s, and these sets were EVERYWHERE here. Airfix, Britains, Matchbox, ESCI. It was a running joke in our family that whenever we went out we had to go to the toy shop first otherwise I'd complain the whole time. Then, as soon as I'd bought a box of soldiers I complained the rest of the time anyway cos I wanted to go home and start playing with them! Sad, but today you really have to hunt around to find anything.
my favourite airfix set,love the videos
So not only me then :)
Thanks!
Gee dude, so many memories 👍🏻
I know. Cool isn´t it! 😃
Hear, hear - I absolutely agree that this is Airfix's finest hour. When they started the policy of 'down-sizing' their larger scale figures to HO/00, I longed for them to down-size their wild west sets. Sadly they never did - but the ever-present spectre of foreign 'copy' figures did eventually down-size the Cowboys & Indians, a handful of which I am lucky enough to own, but never the Cavalry. I wait for the day when 3D scanning is affordable- and accurate- enough for me to scan my Cavalry set, reduce it in size and 3D print the figures in the smaller scale. I suspect the master molds have been long since lost, as Airfix (Humbrol) have never reproduced these wonderful figures.
I will have to try to find some down scaled copies of cowboys and indians. Sound cool.
I´m in the process of trying to upscale the Matchbox Anzac figures. I have a great resin 3d printer and as far as I can tell there´s a few great apps for 3d scanning that should work fine.
@@toysoldiernostalgia I'd be hugely interested to learn/see/hear how you get on with the up-scaling - those Anzac figures are real beauties, too. Good luck!
@@Throgmoyd I will for sure do a video or two on the process. Just have to find the time :)
Lindas miniaturas amigo 🤠👍🏻
This and the Infantry Support Group for the 54s have to be the two standouts. Problem with the Airfix Western stuff was the competition from Timpo in 54mm and Atlantic in 20mm were both outstanding and in the case of Timpo as readily available.
Britains Wild West figures where great as well but expensive.
@@toysoldiernostalgia they were indeed but as you say expensive, speaking from an English perspective, I only remember them being available through larger dedicated toyshops found in cities wheras Airfix and Timpo (just talking 70s platics) seemed to be available at newsagents and smaller toyshops so available almost universally. There were also the pot metal Metallions which seemed to be, from memory, pretty universal but lacking colour and more of a fad than anything else. My late father used to do a lot in the bankrupt shop stock line and we (producer bankruptcies aside) often had smallish (except on one occasion where the Airfix deadstock quantity was huge) quantities of Airfix and Timpo through the business, much to my joy as a youngster, but I cannot recall any Britains. I don't know how Britain's distributed but it could have been sale or return which itself suggests they were set up for larger orders. I can't comment on Matchbox as one of my late father's business partners was a distributor for Matchbox and I had a ready supply but my memories seem to me to be a Christmas earlier than the release dates quoted on collector sites for the playsets (cars didn't interest me so they do not stick in my memory) so I do wonder if I was an unknowing playtester.
Who made the American infantry on the two boxes in the background on the left, with the prone .30 caliber Browning on a tripod? Never seen those before.
Airfix
Wow,.. very impressive,..I like it!
They are nice.
Your dad painted figures for you?
You are a lucky man
I think he mainly painted them for himself. But I got to use them.
One doesn't t find them in the shops anymore. A real pity.
Loved that❤
This set would have been amazing in 1/76th-72nd scale
I Agree.
Great job really like it
Thanks :)
There were no swords at the little big horn battle.
I had this set in 73/74, but I remember them being pre-coloured plastic, not yellow?
Then it was not Airfix. I think the Airfix Wild West sets are some of the most copied. Sometimes realy well.
They look very cool. Like the video!
Then you should see them irl :) Worth every penny.
I have that set........... SOMEWHERE! I think it's in a metal box unpainted! My set included a Cluster figure. Andy NOT Annmarie!
These can easily be painted as Civil War cavalry either Confederate or Union.
When did the italian ifantry 1:32 set was made? Is very rare
1980/81. They are pretty rare and cost quit a bit of money. I only have the 14 box.
Were these ever made in another color?
Not by Airfix but made some copies were made in other colors.
It would be nice to see them matching Marx colors@@toysoldiernostalgia
It s available in 1:72 too ?!?!
Yes but different poses and blue color.
@@toysoldiernostalgiagrrrr.
I know, but It' s like german infantry airfix, in the 1973 ( ....) the pose waren the same ho:00=1:35
Beautiful sculpts …but why in Gods name we’re they yellow?….
Who knows why they picked some of colors.
Shame they didn't include a general Custer figure or even an Indian scout.
That would have been cool.
Прекрасный набор. У меня такого нет.
Try to get a set if you can.
Your dad had talint
Thanks.
I doubt they would make this set today, considering Custer and genocide and all that. Would not go down well.
They couldn't call the opposition "Indians", that's for sure.
Ich habe alle drei zu Hause