Had this kit and built it a number of times ,even tried to make a sea fury with one as there wasn't a kit of the fury in late 70,s, early 80,s but nice to see again .bought a matchbox kit every sat out of my paperboy wages as the newsagent sold them ...
There was a 1/72 Sea Fury available, if you could get your hands on it - the FROG or Novo example. PM also brought out some Sea Furies in teh early 90s.
Another brilliant review Peter. I loved building this one, I built it as the MK2 as it looked like the Sea Fury but cheated and added the MK6 transfers. Loved it. As always keep up the good work.
An other interesting thing to note is the pilot figure. He appears to be the „standard“ pilot for the 1920-1945 period, but with an oxygen mask. I wasn’t that fond of these early pilots since they seem to have this “shitty grin”, so I tried to change them whenever possible. Curiously enough, these little guys grinning back at you again when you open a Huma kit of the 1990s. The pilots for the same period included in the late 1970s kits (like the Wellesley) were a different breed altogether, though.
It's a lovely kit and has only really been bettered with some new releases by Airfix and KP (I think). Allders was a department store in Surrey. They had a branch in Camberley and in Wolking. Quite a variety of aircraft were able to shoot down V1s - although the Tempest was one of the most successful. The Mosquito, Spitfire XIV, Mosquito, Mustang and P-61 all managed to down a few.
I wasn't familiar with this airplane from the usual 1960s and 1970s war movies. But in the box art the size of the air intake implied great engine power and it made the aircraft look menacing. Can't remember much else about building the kit, sorry.
remember the matchbox method of wings glueing into lower fuselage space - to help dihedral [?] but which at times lead to an over-emphasised dihedral in my kits. like peter, i remember that i too liked this kit.
Did Matchbox stop doing the stand in later years?? I,ask as I've just been given the Tempest PK23 and no stand no ref either in the instructions. Also recently did a Beaufighter X Matchbox and no stand or ref to it. Not bothered just curious.. I add a small neodymium magnet - small but very powerful magnets in most of my aircraft even if undercarriage down so I can display in flight ... The re issue Airfix stands are not bad as you can remove notch at top and super glue a magnet onto it. Grand review Peter.
The wing with the radiators in the leading edge is actually wrong for the Napier Sabre engined versions. But I guess Matchbox' target clients didn't care too much.
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Had this kit and built it a number of times ,even tried to make a sea fury with one as there wasn't a kit of the fury in late 70,s, early 80,s but nice to see again .bought a matchbox kit every sat out of my paperboy wages as the newsagent sold them ...
There was a 1/72 Sea Fury available, if you could get your hands on it - the FROG or Novo example. PM also brought out some Sea Furies in teh early 90s.
Another brilliant review Peter. I loved building this one, I built it as the MK2 as it looked like the Sea Fury but cheated and added the MK6 transfers. Loved it. As always keep up the good work.
An other interesting thing to note is the pilot figure. He appears to be the „standard“ pilot for the 1920-1945 period, but with an oxygen mask.
I wasn’t that fond of these early pilots since they seem to have this “shitty grin”, so I tried to change them whenever possible.
Curiously enough, these little guys grinning back at you again when you open a Huma kit of the 1990s.
The pilots for the same period included in the late 1970s kits (like the Wellesley) were a different breed altogether, though.
I got two of these in my stash,got to love Matchbox kits.
It's a lovely kit and has only really been bettered with some new releases by Airfix and KP (I think).
Allders was a department store in Surrey. They had a branch in Camberley and in Wolking.
Quite a variety of aircraft were able to shoot down V1s - although the Tempest was one of the most successful. The Mosquito, Spitfire XIV, Mosquito, Mustang and P-61 all managed to down a few.
I wasn't familiar with this airplane from the usual 1960s and 1970s war movies. But in the box art the size of the air intake implied great engine power and it made the aircraft look menacing. Can't remember much else about building the kit, sorry.
bought one of these as part of a job lot & its dark green & brown ( others were the Sabre , P38 lightning , Harrier & Hawk )
remember the matchbox method of wings glueing into lower fuselage space - to help dihedral [?] but which at times lead to an over-emphasised dihedral in my kits.
like peter, i remember that i too liked this kit.
Lovely mouldings, the colours used to put me off - and those trenches! If only the detail had been a little less heavy handed.
7:56 Some nasty sink marks on the landing gear doors. Nothing a bit of filler won't fix but I've noticed that on a few matchbox kits I've built.
Yes I suspect it looks worse with paint on, but as you say, usually easily fixed. 👍🏻
I built that model in 1975. It was pretty good for its' day. Used Humbrol paints hard masked off and Micro Scale decals.
Did Matchbox stop doing the stand in later years?? I,ask as I've just been given the Tempest PK23 and no stand no ref either in the instructions.
Also recently did a Beaufighter X Matchbox and no stand or ref to it. Not bothered just curious.. I add a small neodymium magnet - small but very powerful magnets in most of my aircraft even if undercarriage down so I can display in flight ... The re issue Airfix stands are not bad as you can remove notch at top and super glue a magnet onto it. Grand review Peter.
Yes, they seemed to drop the stands after about 1984 / 5, once the Lesney ownership was over. Pity. 😕
The wing with the radiators in the leading edge is actually wrong for the Napier Sabre engined versions. But I guess Matchbox' target clients didn't care too much.
Not the Mk V, but the VI did.
The yellow looks like old colmans mustard😟
I had those dreadful colours too, even back in the 70's it was sunglasses time.
That was the point. Nobody painted their models at the time, so Matchbox went for the eye-catching look. It didn't do their marketing any harm at all.
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