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Old. VS. New. 1973. VS. 2009. Airfix vintage.plastic toy. Figure

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.

Even as a Yank, I can tell the Timpo 8th Army standing figure in the beret is supposed to be Field Marshal Montgomery. It’s not a bad likeness at all, for a toy soldier.

Water filled jacket on the Vickers machine gun

I could be mistaken, but I think there was a Matchbox 1/72 scale set with exactly the same molds

I was so excited to get this set as a kid, but the plastic was corrupted somehow. The plastic became brittle within a year and started to break I had a US infantry set that year that did the same thing. I wonder if the change to France had anything to do with it. I do not have the boxes unfortunately. As I have pulled them in recent years they seem strangely under scale.

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.

Do you have a set of ww2 german ski troops?

Have you guys seen the current set? Their faces have lost all its features. Its like someone put a hot iron over it and melted the face features. The quality of the plastic seems to be of a lower grade too. I am not sure if I got a defective pack or its the current standard now.

I had the submarine as a child. Always remembered the tablets being like a effervescent tablet

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I used to love Action Transfers. I used to put them on the front of my school books, much to the annoyance of my teachers!

Nice things Jerry and love those Letraset transfers. I saw a Space 1999 set (unused) on ebay for something like 130 Euros 😲 blimy my childhood is expensive now lol.

Just noticed the song is original. Great stuff. Good job ai? How much was you?

Nice

I had the 3rd box. Had several airfix boxes. US para's, Russian etc. No idea what happened with it

The ESCIs were published at a time I was reduced to reading model kit catalogues. And didn't really came back on the subject. I felt ashamed and embarrassed to buy plastic toy soldiers in stores in the early 90s ... when I had the money to buy them all. They are all worth to mention, as are Revells and Italaries. Sometimes some of them are rereleased in some way and I don't even know ... Also great: the 1:72 Esci hardplastik model kit figures ...

I had some of these. In those days some stores were selling toy soldiers one by one as well. I don't remember how I got those - tells me I was not excited at all. I had the MG42 guy that I joined with my Matchbox machine gunners. Also had the ski carrying solider and the one digging. I didn't have the officer. Gosh, he is so lame...

Great job as always…thanks for sharing. I truly enjoyed your videos and this incredible community 😊

The hotrod tractor is an odd one, I noticed that the tractor has what looks like moveable gear shift.

Like the Airfix counterpart the German Officer has a Walther P38 pistol

1 British Para (2nd issue) 2 US infantry 3 German Para Difficult choice though tbh.

omg. i had the action transfers, i was born in the 70's. you brought back alot of memories i had forgotten.

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Great fun watching your box openings. I remember the Airfix paints when they came in bottles. They were horrible to use! The opening diameter was too small to stir them properly and you always got paint on the brush handle when the jars were close to empty trying to get the paint from the bottom. The tin screw on caps always clogged up with dried paint and the tall thin bottles were too easy to knock over. The gloss colours took about a week to dry for some reason! No wonder they later copied the Humbrol tins. I can't remember ever seeing the Timpo one piece soldiers. My local toy shops only had the Timpo multi-piece brightly coloured figures. I also remember some WW2 soldiers from Crescent Toys coming free in boxes of washing powder!

I love these videos, thanks.

Action Transfers wow that takes me back to happy times

I have German Afrika Korps and German Paratroopers as my favorites among the German sets.

From father to son...RIP Dad xxx

Simply brillient...the best channel!

Had that submarine in the mid 70s. Played in amongst the rock pools when on holiday on the west coast of Scotland. My grandads steradent false teeth tablets worked a treat 😂😂

That sherwood castle is really something .I..had the foreign legion fort ..hours of fun ! 😄

It was the shipping box. That is a cool sub. Use get those in cereal box . Baking soda would create sinking and diving action.

That is a great haul of nostalia. Surprised the soldier sets have survived so well. The plastic tends to get brittle in my experience, at least with the Airfix soldiers.

We always pack are kit boxes inside an oversized box and wrap the actual kit in a cardboard sleeve inside ,some of these packages are really bad and could have been avoided

I like your videos, the box openings are fun. Do you sell as well as buy?? The castle is brilliant, I had this model with the figure sets. Nice to reminisce 😊.

still got that tractor somewhere but the trailer didn't ring any bells for me at all

Always great to see you unpacking your packages.The anticipation and the reveal.Great stuff.Thanks for sharing.👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

Timpo 8th Army was outstanding had some sets of these when I was young. Plenty of hours of fun back in the day...👍🏻

Ohhhh, the 8th army flamethrower ❤

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!😊

Great video

Rosebud kit master was bought by airfix but a lot of the molds were sold to Dapol who still produces them in the UK

Fantastic, love you channel - a real nostalgia trip and your amazing enthusiasm, thanks

I don't think officers wearing caps in battle is very authentic. Were their skulls and brains considered less worth protecting than the other ranks? 😂

I remember the castle, it is like Christmas day for you

Since we are doing it, my faves were 3: Australian Infantry 2: British Paratroops 1: British Commando

Timpo 8th Army, Never saw some 😳, Thanks, Dieter and Ben

I had the WW1 action transfers also the Romans

I had the castle and Britains knights when I was young. Wish I still had them. I loved action transfers when I was a kid 😁