Che meraviglia,negli anni settanta un tabaccaio vicino casa aveva molti di questi modelli con relativo catalogo,noi ragazzi facevamo a gara a costruirli,che meraviglia!!!!
Thank you for a great time machine Peter. Lot of nice memories passing by. I 'm happy to say I managed to collect some of the older Matchbox kits again over the past years. The Surtees F1 racecar being one of them, and also recently managed to get hold of the Tiger Moth in absolute new condition. Great stuff.
42:07 I was given the 1979-1980 catalogue all these years ago. I don't know how many hours I've spent going through it. I would mark some of the items with ''got this one'', ''might want this one in the future'' etc. As Peter points out, the main reason I mostly built Matchbox kits in my early youth was that you did not really have to paint them unlike the other brands. Slowly but surely i did start to paint my models and I was, as I remember it, no longer tied to Matchbox. Some of my earliest painting attempts were disastrous but over the years I became better at it. It was the only kit catalogue I ever had, of any brand. I no longer have the catalogue. Not sure what happened to it, I guess I threw it away in the 1990s when I stopped building plastic model kits for a while? Not that the two were related but by that time the 1979-1980 edition was of course no longer relevant. Maybe I should have kept it, or try to repare the cover because it had become loose etc.
Very enjoyable trip back in time! The photos of the 1/700 ships in the catalogs don't do the models justice. The San Diego, Indianapolis and HMS Ariadne are very good and as detailed as any of the 1/700 ship models from Japan at the same point in time. Thanks for the posting.
Hello again Peter, your segment has just got me to thinking that there were a great many similarities here in Australia at the other end of the Commonwealth among we young enthusiasts of a particular vintage from the 1970s. On bicycles in Queensland before helmets were mandated to the local hobby shop, where there were seemingly endless rows of neatly piled Airfix and Matchbox kits. Thank you for the excellent series of ongoing reviews. Lewis
Regarding the metal spitfire and hurricane. I can remember collecting kelloggs cornflake tokens printed on the box along with 20p and you would post them off and recieve one of the two planes. Later on the tokens were printed on ice cream cone boxes of a brand i cant remember
Cool, I still have a couple of the speed Kings from my childhood the pink n Purple one's are colour changers under warm water or finger tips! I remember that was annoying when it would have changed in to pink when was away to play with my toy car's haha good memories
Yes, I had the "Clipper" and the "Piston Popper", and the Skybuster's Spitfire. It was 10p at the time, and an odd Gold/Green metalic colour combination.
The Lancaster was my very first model kit from matchbox it was a horrible brown plastic,, I don't think I'll ever forget building that thing it was horrendous haha 😂
At 47:07 , that’s definitely the prototype model for their famous LRDG Chevrolet model kit. Look at the gunner on the back of the truck- a Preiser figure!
@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab No, not really. As your reviews clearly show, those Matchbox kits were a class of their own. Still have that guy in my bits box. Maybe one day… 🤷🏻♂️
@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab just curious ,were those 1/72 ,1/32 and other kits of various topics in 1973 to on wards were airbrushed ( or using air gun) because I can't see any brush strokes. Air gun/brush were expensive and out of reach for model builders with only pocket money . I had the 1981 MatchBox magazine and all the kits were painted.
Che meraviglia,negli anni settanta un tabaccaio vicino casa aveva molti di questi modelli con relativo catalogo,noi ragazzi facevamo a gara a costruirli,che meraviglia!!!!
Great trip down memory lane Peter. I had forgotten I had so many of the red range; the Wellington was my favourite.
Thank you for a great time machine Peter. Lot of nice memories passing by. I 'm happy to say I managed to collect some of the older Matchbox kits again over the past years. The Surtees F1 racecar being one of them, and also recently managed to get hold of the Tiger Moth in absolute new condition. Great stuff.
What a blast from the past! So magical remembering all the matchbox toys.. Takes me right back to childhood in the 70s
Amazing , what a happier luckier lot we really were. We never knew what we had. Wonderful to see again .
42:07 I was given the 1979-1980 catalogue all these years ago. I don't know how many hours I've spent going through it. I would mark some of the items with ''got this one'', ''might want this one in the future'' etc. As Peter points out, the main reason I mostly built Matchbox kits in my early youth was that you did not really have to paint them unlike the other brands. Slowly but surely i did start to paint my models and I was, as I remember it, no longer tied to Matchbox. Some of my earliest painting attempts were disastrous but over the years I became better at it. It was the only kit catalogue I ever had, of any brand.
I no longer have the catalogue. Not sure what happened to it, I guess I threw it away in the 1990s when I stopped building plastic model kits for a while? Not that the two were related but by that time the 1979-1980 edition was of course no longer relevant. Maybe I should have kept it, or try to repare the cover because it had become loose etc.
Very enjoyable trip back in time! The photos of the 1/700 ships in the catalogs don't do the models justice. The San Diego, Indianapolis and HMS Ariadne are very good and as detailed as any of the 1/700 ship models from Japan at the same point in time. Thanks for the posting.
Omg i forgot speed kings awesome had a few of them what a trip down memory lane superb
Superb, Peter! Thank you.
Hello again Peter, your segment has just got me to thinking that there were a great many similarities here in Australia at the other end of the Commonwealth among we young enthusiasts of a particular vintage from the 1970s. On bicycles in Queensland before helmets were mandated to the local hobby shop, where there were seemingly endless rows of neatly piled Airfix and Matchbox kits. Thank you for the excellent series of ongoing reviews. Lewis
Missed the notification.. Ah well here watching the repeat now
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Regarding the metal spitfire and hurricane. I can remember collecting kelloggs cornflake tokens printed on the box along with 20p and you would post them off and recieve one of the two planes. Later on the tokens were printed on ice cream cone boxes of a brand i cant remember
I loved their Jadpanther.
Cool, I still have a couple of the speed Kings from my childhood the pink n Purple one's are colour changers under warm water or finger tips! I remember that was annoying when it would have changed in to pink when was away to play with my toy car's haha good memories
37:30 definitely wrong markings on the (properly painted) Viggen, the Swedish blue is missing.....
Yes, I had the "Clipper" and the "Piston Popper", and the Skybuster's Spitfire. It was 10p at the time, and an odd Gold/Green metalic colour combination.
The Lancaster was my very first model kit from matchbox it was a horrible brown plastic,, I don't think I'll ever forget building that thing it was horrendous haha 😂
...Like Cadbury's Dairy Milk! 👍🏻
At 47:07 , that’s definitely the prototype model for their famous LRDG Chevrolet model kit.
Look at the gunner on the back of the truck- a Preiser figure!
Yes, quite different to the final production version, a bit of a shame?
@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab No, not really. As your reviews clearly show, those Matchbox kits were a class of their own. Still have that guy in my bits box. Maybe one day… 🤷🏻♂️
No Peter, I think this transporter was an American Mack built truck.
Ok
Maravilha. Só gostaria de saber peter onde posso encontrar matchbox aqui no Brasil? Aviões.
Hi Mauro, Matchbox no longer trading but Revell brand sell many of these kits in a single colour plastic, Check SCALEMATES.com 👍🏻
@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab just curious ,were those 1/72 ,1/32 and other kits of various topics in 1973 to on wards were airbrushed ( or using air gun) because I can't see any brush strokes. Air gun/brush were expensive and out of reach for model builders with only pocket money . I had the 1981 MatchBox magazine and all the kits were painted.
@@amuxpatch2798 Yes it does look airbrushed.
I will be there at 1:00 pm my time
Look forward to seeing you later Stephi, it's a good one tonight. 👍🏻
The Wespeee lol, pronounced wesp- eh meaning wasp
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