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 the Navarone set and Desert Fox set. Really liked the Navarone set, but the plastic "terrain" map was a bit too small to truly set up the American soldiers. The German Soldiers were easy, as you can set them up in the mountain with the two "Guns" placed on the platforms. Desert Fox was good because they actually gave you quite a few tanks along with the infantry. 3 Panzers and a Tiger for the German side, 3 shermans and what I believe was a pershing along with 2 howitzers and 2 88's.
My dude, I had that!!! I played with that battleground set until it was rough, then it got passed on to my nephew. I also had a very hard to find Mountain Bunker that looked like those WW2 German gun nests over the beach. Those things seen a million miniature wars. 👍🏻
I always wanted a "German Set". . . I had a little Iwo Jima Plastic mountain/pillbox with the flag raisers you could add to the top. . .it had little Japanese and American Soldiers. . . My Dad glued it to a 3 foot plywood and painted a beach/water and drilled holes to stick twigs and stuff to look like leafless battlefield trees. My Dad made us flat bottom wooden pirate ships for the living room carpet, and showed us how to make our own castles out of Oatmeal Cannisters and Folding Cereal Boxes, and cheap glue. . .Not many "big" plastic toys, But we did get a lots of different "Army Men" . . .. . .
I remember those two trees were copied endlessly and included in many cheap 1980s Hong Kong made soldier and cowboy/indian sets, which were usually copies of Airfix figures. Ah, the memories. :)
You reminded me of the tree. You said what I was about to say. I remember those trees as I use to collect the Hong Kong toy soldiers with the accessories. They were cheaper and plentiful at the time.🙂👍🇭🇲🦘👋✌️
Jerry, I swear you are my hero! You have the most awesome collection and your shopping skills are incredible. Thank you for sharing your wealth and bringing joy to us old guys who played with these sets 50 years ago.
I had this set and found it was really versatile for different scenarios. The walls were more sturdy than they appear. Perfect for a small convoy. Thanks for the memories.
Man how I enjoy your videos. This looks like a really fun set. I'd have loved having this as a kid. I learned recently that I did have one Britans figure. I just didn't know it at the time. Thanks for sharing.
When i was a kid 50 odd years ago. With my pocket money i would buy one or two of these soldiers every week for 15p each (English money). In my garden i would have big battles, where i had build little trenches and bunkers in the grass. At some point i buried the lot of them, wonder in they are still buried in the garden?
While I didn't have this exact set, I was lucky enough to have owned many components of this set. As always, your videos take me back to some very happy childhood times. Thank you for bringing back those memories.
Nice set I hope to one day also find this set. I have a lot of the Britain's soldiers and vehicle's so this set would be a great addition. Thanks for all your videos, looking forward to more of them.
Those soldiers with the metal bases I use to buy one to two at a time. They were expensive back in the 70s mid to late and others I found again when I had to leave from Australia to Greece I did find Timpo and the British made soldiers. Greece had their own copies of Airfix and lots of Timpo and some Matchbox and Atlantic. To try and replace those again is very costly.🙂👍🇭🇲🦘👋✌️
I'm absolutely amazed at the paint jobs on the soldiers. Great unboxing/review! My dream is to find the Marx Dinosaur set from 1970 I gor from Santa Claus that year. 8).
Great video! I really liked the super detaile figures that came out of the sas paras and R M. The way they were made was different. They were not painted but made up of different colour plastic in the molding process. How they did that is impressive!😊
Amazing! As always a brilliant film. You're a real inspiration. Now collecting Airfix and others I had in my youth thanks to your enthusiasm 😊😊. Keep filming 🎥
The Marx Toy Company in the United States began producing 'Battle Ground' playsets around 1960. Just like most products in the United States at that time, quantity mattered more than quality. So my childhood Battleground playset from 1965 had lots of soldiers (about 50 I think), several armored vehicles, and lots of accessories. About 100 pieces total, as I recall. But it was all unpainted, and the quality of the sculpting was not equal to that of this playset. Great memories from that playset! And great video!
I would love to have some of those Marx playsets. Navarone and Iwo Jima. Damn awesome playsets. But they end up costing an arm and a leg to get shipped to Sweden.
Not sure what Marx sets you had but their detail is better than most. some of the best molds ever made were Marx ww2 figures. Easily on par with Airfix . Marx Japanese are amazing their marines and GIs were also well above the standards of the day. They were for sure more toy soldiers than model soldiers and they cost far less. That all said the best part was having Marx big sets and adding to them with Airfix or Matchbox when you could find them. In 1981 finding Airfix toys at the hobby shop was like finding a gold mine to a ten year old kid. Then reality punched you in the gut when your mom said just one.... and you had to choose. Hardest decision ever made.
I found your video in mere recommendations, but I know I loved it, I hope you keep uploading because it is a world of very interesting figures and sets.
fantastic set! i never knew it existed as a boy, i loved the britains deetail range, the Germans and Confederates (american civil war obviously) were my favourites, this set is brilliant, not as good as the Airfix combat pack which i have mint and complete but still excellent, it is wonderful to maintain that child like enthusiasm, i feel sorry for anyone who looks back and thinks it is just for children! no, it isn't, us grown men who cherish those days love these toys more than ever
Very cool. I've still got the Farmyard playset that Britains made make in the 70s. It has a pigsty and a barn, smalls fields and a duck pond, trees, some animals and some fences :) Its was vacuum moulded like the the military one will a cardboard bottom.
Great video. I always wanted one of these. I had a Timpo (?) wild west base though - I think it was intended for 1/32 but was perfect for desert battles with my 1/72 soldiers.
Now that was a brilliant unboxing. Really good to see all the parts fitted together. Britains toys work really well with the Airfix soldiers and vehicles. Great T Shirt!
Glorious to see this in such detail after almost 50 years, thanks! I wanted this so badly at 6 or 7 that it physically hurt. Britains were my absolute favourite, but the soldiers alone were so horrendously expensive, and this playset was completely out of reach. Toy blocks and farm buildings had to suffice. And then shortly afterwards Star Wars came around and I fell out of love with toy soldiers and into space battles instead (and thus Britains briefly had a second go at taking my money a few years later).
Now that is a cracking find! And it will if you’re not careful! There is that company in the UK that makes vac form bases for the 1/32 scale buildings that are pretty similar to the 1/76 versions but sized up. Would love to see this set integrated with the Airfix strongpoint, checkpoint and the Matchbox set too. Throw in some farms scenery and boy thats some amazing set up, plus YOU can do it too. Certainly not directing any envy your way….😜 Thanks for that. The mortar from Britains did it include the small mortar bombs? Had great fun with them, you can also shoot bits of matchstick from them too.
I will ry and set all the playsets up toghether sometime. It´s kind of a given when you have so many :) The mortar didn´t have any of the ammo for it but I have a few mortsr sets already and they are complete.
Nice to see you are getting closer and closer to collecting all the various playsets from the past! 😀 Never had one or more of these more elaborate playsets. Not sure if they were available in the toy stores where I lived or not. My memories of the 1970s are fading away... The playsets were there I guess. I was probably more interested in separately sold soldier sets, vehicles and buildings (mostly Airfix and Matchbox). I believe I had a small plastic castle, not even sure about that. Anyhow when I discovered Airfix and Matchbox that presumed castle (and knights?) were gone. Looks like you've got a room full of these toys from yesteryear ! 😄 I can only dream about this. Or else follow your YT channel 😊
I was really expecting you to give a close-up view of the figurines.Painted soldiers from a box are just heaven sent for a ten year old. For a ten year old, that is a big size battleground. For little fingers, the soldiers would be running around, ducking, shooting from every cover available.
I didn´t do that because I´m not sure which ones realy came with the set and they were in so so condition. I´m working on getting all the Britains Deetail ww2 figures (to start) and make videos on just those sets.
I was a little late for this era; the age of action figures was in full swing during my childhood. But I still had a few toy soldiers who could have had some epic battles in this little playset. I'm not sure why this video popped up in my recommendations, but I really enjoyed it. I'll have to check out the channel.
I think action figures based on tv-shows realy took over the toy market early 80s. Glad you like it. There´s not that much on TH-cam on late 60s-70s toys. Plenty on 80s MOTU TMNT SW though :)
I had the guns of Naverone set. Loved it. It got so much hard play it didn't survive. Im currently trying to find a complete set but its not likely. If i do no doubt it will be $800 or more
WOW!, Britains were always a little out of our price range as a kid, but the quality was fantastic and had I been aware of this as a kid, this playset would have been on my wish list...Mortar team, BREN Operator and flamethrower op my faves, never seen them before...Thanks again...
In the mid 70s my friend upstairs from me got a big cowboy & Indian set. It was two big plastic towers to resemble cliffs and a bridge piece to lock them together, to resemble a natural stone overpass. It was great and we had a lot of fun with it. I also had hundreds of toy soldiers (plastic) I had a large American revolution set, blue and red, A large civil war set blue and grey and brown Same for a WW1 set, and WW2 set At our summer camp I used to spend hours setting them up and pushing the sand to cover the standing bases so they looked real and incorporate sticks, small stones and moss etc for realism I even built a stone wall out of pebbles once about 2 ft long What I had left by the time I was a teen, I boxed up carefully to put away, to save for when I had kids of my own, They were all destroyed by mice stored in my parent's home. 😞 Same with my extensive collection of all the original Star wars stuff from the 70s And my hundreds of 1960s and 70s comic books Just thousands and thousands worth of stuff.. completely destroyed
Oh no that´s so sad. I´m stealing the idea with the sand on the base plate for upcoming outdoors sandbox videos. I think I´ve seen that wild west set online. I think it´s a Marx playset right?
@toysoldiernostalgia I don't recall either names (of the play set or company) I remember only that the cliffs (2) were molded from a beige plastic with some holes to resemble cave entrances, and the small bridging piece. I think it also had a few plastic boulders (for the Indians to drop in cowboys) 🤣 And "I think" it had a plastic sheet to roll out with a desert scene graphics (like a trail with shrubs printed on it, to set the pieces on) but I'm not 100% sure if that. This was around 1975/76? when he got it for Xmas. Basically like a perfect ambush type setup
I'm happy for you, I'm still looking for a replacement computer that my dad threw away when I was 12 back in 2001. After all these years I still won't drop it!. I added Mexico 🇲🇽 all 7 central American flags and I think I bought Paraguays added to my collection. I also collect flags along side my soldiers and policeman figurines.
I’ve been collecting for 20 odd years now and I didn’t even know this set existed! I’m still trying to find the matchbox rocket attack set, for me, that is the holy grail!
I was also locking for the Rocket Attack set. But after I saw one for sale on Ebay about 6 months ago I decided against it. The playmat just didn´t look that great and the parts it came with was so so. I just didn´t get excited about it. I think the Beach Head Assault is a much better and cool set.
There is one set I have not come across since the early 80s. It was a pack of ONLY army men. Four different colors in separate plastic bubbles attached to a cardboard backing. The one we bought hung on a clip strip on a grocery store aisle in Cumberland Md. My dad a d myself were waiting outside for the store to open a d rushed in. We lover army men. The colors of the plastic soldiers were green, mustard yellow, an odd red/brown and a grey. Dad always said that were German, American, Australian and French. Good times!
Thanks for another fun video Jerry! I always wished my parents would buy me some Britain's toy soldiers but they were too expensive in the US. Probably because they were imports. I could get 2 or 3 boxes of Airfix, Matchbox or ESCI for the price of a handful of Britains. Anyway you're so entertaining and love your videos! Cheers my friend!
Love it, point blank mayhem, also your grenade gerry - they are always lopsided even when new, and ur flamethrower guy, hes not missing owt - barrelwise.
I can remember seeing that set for sale, in the late 1970's/early 1980's - and it was really quite expensive. A good set, though. Britain's models were always great - their artillery pieces were astonishing, however, it always annoyed me that they made two large WW1 guns - a howitzer and a mounted naval gun - but never made any troops of the right era (1914-18) to go with them. They did make some lead ones, which I had, but never any 'Swoppit' or 'Deetail' ones, which I'm sure would have sold well.
Ok, I was born in 1972, my dad had and got me the Deetail WWII soldiers and the also the Crusaders and dont get mad at me the Storm Lords which I always thought of as the Turks for some strange reason as a kid. I still have them and absolutely did not allow my kids to play with them. Every single model is older than I am. I did allow my kids to play with the plastic ones but not the painted ones.
GREAT FIND SIR,YOUR GERMAN IS MISSING A LIGHT MACHINEGUN.BMC TOYS ARE REPRODUCING SOME OF THE BUILDINGS FROM THE OLD MARX'S SETS AND OLD TOY SOLDIERS FIGURES.BEING A FIFTY KID,WE DID HAVE A LARGE SELECTION OF PLAY SETS TO ENJOY.TAKE CARE AND PLAY ON.REMEMBER "DON'T GROW UP"
I was noticing that the mortar has a spring loaded trigger. It looks as if it is designed to shoot some sort of small toy projectile from the tube. I had a similarly designed cannon in a Wild West Frontier Fort when I was a boy that fired small plastic cannon balls.
Bloody lovely. Thank you, Jerry. Ho. Ho. Ho. It would seem that Britains did not rely on bold packaging to sell their products. Unlike Matchbox, Airfix, etc. where the Box Art was a major influence for children to buy, Britains went with a more subdued approach. I wonder, did Britains have one eye on the Collectors' Market back then?
I. Collect 80s. Nice to meet you. Some of your stuff overlapez mine. Nice collection. Very impressive. May you consider me to inherits it if you're unsure of the future of it all.
Surely you wouldn't of had a Stanley knife to open your presents has a kid 😁. If you had removed the bubble wrap more carefully, you could of used it again. Love your enthusiasm for the sets you receive. 👍
my best friend had this and wasn't really a fan...till i showed him how to use fire crackers! His dad gave us a huge pile of sand to build our battles and then set off explosions, we had to reinforce our troops when the plastic would melt and we get the cheap plastic guys at Ben Franklin...ironically American reinforcements..we even tried a plane on fire, some model tanks with glue on fire and filmed it.....we had fun playing this one summer until we discovered Dad had Playboy magazines in the bathroom.
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 this when I was a kid. I also had a Guns of Navarone playset.
I had the Navarone set and Desert Fox set. Really liked the Navarone set, but the plastic "terrain" map was a bit too small to truly set up the American soldiers. The German Soldiers were easy, as you can set them up in the mountain with the two "Guns" placed on the platforms. Desert Fox was good because they actually gave you quite a few tanks along with the infantry. 3 Panzers and a Tiger for the German side, 3 shermans and what I believe was a pershing along with 2 howitzers and 2 88's.
Your enthusiasm is inspiring!!
Thanks :)
My dude, I had that!!! I played with that battleground set until it was rough, then it got passed on to my nephew. I also had a very hard to find Mountain Bunker that looked like those WW2 German gun nests over the beach. Those things seen a million miniature wars. 👍🏻
I was born in 1967 if I had that for Christmas one year I’d have been over the moon it’s fantastic
I always wanted a "German Set". . . I had a little Iwo Jima Plastic mountain/pillbox with the flag raisers you could add to the top. . .it had little Japanese and American Soldiers. . . My Dad glued it to a 3 foot plywood and painted a beach/water and drilled holes to stick twigs and stuff to look like leafless battlefield trees.
My Dad made us flat bottom wooden pirate ships for the living room carpet, and showed us how to make our own castles out of Oatmeal Cannisters and Folding Cereal Boxes, and cheap glue. . .Not many "big" plastic toys, But we did get a lots of different "Army Men" . . .. . .
What a great story and what a great dad. Thanks for sharing.
I remember those two trees were copied endlessly and included in many cheap 1980s Hong Kong made soldier and cowboy/indian sets, which were usually copies of Airfix figures. Ah, the memories. :)
Yes I think Britains also used them in every other set thay made :)
You reminded me of the tree. You said what I was about to say. I remember those trees as I use to collect the Hong Kong toy soldiers with the accessories. They were cheaper and plentiful at the time.🙂👍🇭🇲🦘👋✌️
@@toysoldiernostalgia think they had them in the sets they had of about twenty soldiers
Jerry, I swear you are my hero! You have the most awesome collection and your shopping skills are incredible. Thank you for sharing your wealth and bringing joy to us old guys who played with these sets 50 years ago.
Thanks man :)
Loved the way you added more soldiers.
I would have loved this back in the day.
I had lots of soldiers but not many playsets.
I had this set and found it was really versatile for different scenarios. The walls were more sturdy than they appear. Perfect for a small convoy. Thanks for the memories.
That Airfix T Shirt is really cool!!! Congratulations on this amazing score!!!
I made it. I´m making them with all the 17 officers from Airfix ww2 sets. Give it a week or two for me to set it up with a Print on Demand website.
Don't remember seeing this set as a kid - but looks great. As ever you enthusiasm is fantastic and really brings a smile to my face. Thank you.
Thanks man!
Man how I enjoy your videos. This looks like a really fun set. I'd have loved having this as a kid. I learned recently that I did have one Britans figure. I just didn't know it at the time. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for that man. I guess we pretty much all would have loved that set as kids. Not that many of us could afford it though lol.
When i was a kid 50 odd years ago. With my pocket money i would buy one or two of these soldiers every week for 15p each (English money). In my garden i would have big battles, where i had build little trenches and bunkers in the grass. At some point i buried the lot of them, wonder in they are still buried in the garden?
LOL!!! Did the same here in the U.S. A fresh plowed garden was great because the dirt clods made "explosions" when they hit! 😆
While I didn't have this exact set, I was lucky enough to have owned many components of this set. As always, your videos take me back to some very happy childhood times. Thank you for bringing back those memories.
No problem mna. Glad to bring some good memories back.
All of this is only sort of my thing - but your presentation makes me want to watch your vids. You are a great presenter - thank you.
Thanks man :)
An amazing set and a really cool find!
Nice set I hope to one day also find this set. I have a lot of the Britain's soldiers and vehicle's so this set would be a great addition. Thanks for all your videos, looking forward to more of them.
Wow, fantastic find! Congrats!
Thanks!
Greg Great video! I too collect toy soldiers of various brands from the 50s,60's 70's 80's and playsets. Keep up the good work 👏 😊
Those soldiers with the metal bases I use to buy one to two at a time. They were expensive back in the 70s mid to late and others I found again when I had to leave from Australia to Greece I did find Timpo and the British made soldiers. Greece had their own copies of Airfix and lots of Timpo and some Matchbox and Atlantic. To try and replace those again is very costly.🙂👍🇭🇲🦘👋✌️
👍 I love this old stuff! Great to See! It remembers on my childhood!
Not many of mine survived. Fell to my air rifle. 🤣
@tedwarden1608 🤣🤣🤣 I used anti tank firecracker!
Wow!!! those Airfix Hanomag's and Cromwell are spectacular! I had that Brit mortar team- there were little mortar rounds you could shoot out of them.
I'm absolutely amazed at the paint jobs on the soldiers. Great unboxing/review! My dream is to find the Marx Dinosaur set from 1970 I gor from Santa Claus that year. 8).
Great video!
I really liked the super detaile figures that came out of the sas paras and R M.
The way they were made was different. They were not painted but made up of different colour plastic in the molding process.
How they did that is impressive!😊
Amazing!
As always a brilliant film. You're a real inspiration.
Now collecting Airfix and others I had in my youth thanks to your enthusiasm 😊😊.
Keep filming 🎥
The Marx Toy Company in the United States began producing 'Battle Ground' playsets around 1960. Just like most products in the United States at that time, quantity mattered more than quality. So my childhood Battleground playset from 1965 had lots of soldiers (about 50 I think), several armored vehicles, and lots of accessories. About 100 pieces total, as I recall. But it was all unpainted, and the quality of the sculpting was not equal to that of this playset. Great memories from that playset! And great video!
I would love to have some of those Marx playsets. Navarone and Iwo Jima. Damn awesome playsets. But they end up costing an arm and a leg to get shipped to Sweden.
@@toysoldiernostalgia Yes, the box would be huge! And the prices are very high for those big playsets.
Not sure what Marx sets you had but their detail is better than most. some of the best molds ever made were Marx ww2 figures. Easily on par with Airfix . Marx Japanese are amazing their marines and GIs were also well above the standards of the day. They were for sure more toy soldiers than model soldiers and they cost far less. That all said the best part was having Marx big sets and adding to them with Airfix or Matchbox when you could find them. In 1981 finding Airfix toys at the hobby shop was like finding a gold mine to a ten year old kid. Then reality punched you in the gut when your mom said just one.... and you had to choose. Hardest decision ever made.
I found your video in mere recommendations, but I know I loved it, I hope you keep uploading because it is a world of very interesting figures and sets.
Thanks man! Yes I will keep uploading for sure. I also have about another 100 or so videos uploaded already that you can check out :)
I don’t even collect toy soldiers but I find your videos so interesting! Keep up the good work!
Thanks :)
Looks a lot better with the Airfix figures. Happy playtime!
I always enoy your videos, not only as a fellow plastic toy soldier collector, but also just to experience and share your joy of collecting.
Glad you like them.
fantastic set! i never knew it existed as a boy, i loved the britains deetail range, the Germans and Confederates (american civil war obviously) were my favourites, this set is brilliant, not as good as the Airfix combat pack which i have mint and complete but still excellent, it is wonderful to maintain that child like enthusiasm, i feel sorry for anyone who looks back and thinks it is just for children! no, it isn't, us grown men who cherish those days love these toys more than ever
Very cool. I've still got the Farmyard playset that Britains made make in the 70s. It has a pigsty and a barn, smalls fields and a duck pond, trees, some animals and some fences :) Its was vacuum moulded like the the military one will a cardboard bottom.
I realy want to get both the Britains and Timpo farm sets.
Pretry cool! Congrats on you find, wonderful playset tô play with. You already pulled a lot of scenaries for the skirmish.
Thought I'd seen them all but never seen that one, brilliant set
Great video. I always wanted one of these. I had a Timpo (?) wild west base though - I think it was intended for 1/32 but was perfect for desert battles with my 1/72 soldiers.
Thank You for bringing back Great Memories! Keep making more videos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Playset better than being on computer any day...😄
Now that was a brilliant unboxing. Really good to see all the parts fitted together. Britains toys work really well with the Airfix soldiers and vehicles. Great T Shirt!
I made the T-shirt. I´m making more and maybe will sell some.
Thanks for sharing this great find! Love Briton's figures
Glorious to see this in such detail after almost 50 years, thanks! I wanted this so badly at 6 or 7 that it physically hurt. Britains were my absolute favourite, but the soldiers alone were so horrendously expensive, and this playset was completely out of reach. Toy blocks and farm buildings had to suffice.
And then shortly afterwards Star Wars came around and I fell out of love with toy soldiers and into space battles instead (and thus Britains briefly had a second go at taking my money a few years later).
I had that, I remember the box being much smaller, the same size as the color sticker on the top.
Now that is a cracking find! And it will if you’re not careful! There is that company in the UK that makes vac form bases for the 1/32 scale buildings that are pretty similar to the 1/76 versions but sized up. Would love to see this set integrated with the Airfix strongpoint, checkpoint and the Matchbox set too. Throw in some farms scenery and boy thats some amazing set up, plus YOU can do it too. Certainly not directing any envy your way….😜 Thanks for that. The mortar from Britains did it include the small mortar bombs? Had great fun with them, you can also shoot bits of matchstick from them too.
I will ry and set all the playsets up toghether sometime. It´s kind of a given when you have so many :)
The mortar didn´t have any of the ammo for it but I have a few mortsr sets already and they are complete.
I had some of the Marx soldier sets,one was named battleground, and one was boot camp....both came in a suitcase style container
Never seen that set before, but I was Airfix/Matchbox fan , thanks for sharing 👍
I had this and it was played with for many years, and I eventually used some of the buildings for wargaming! Lovely to see it again!
Love the t-shirt 😮, cool set up
I´m gonna start making them. One with each officer from all the ww2 sets.
Nice to see you are getting closer and closer to collecting all the various playsets from the past! 😀
Never had one or more of these more elaborate playsets. Not sure if they were available in the toy stores where I lived or not. My memories of the 1970s are fading away... The playsets were there I guess. I was probably more interested in separately sold soldier sets, vehicles and buildings (mostly Airfix and Matchbox). I believe I had a small plastic castle, not even sure about that. Anyhow when I discovered Airfix and Matchbox that presumed castle (and knights?) were gone.
Looks like you've got a room full of these toys from yesteryear ! 😄 I can only dream about this. Or else follow your YT channel 😊
NICE! I build old vintage plastic model kits! Currently working on a 1961 Revell, motorized Coral Sea1 I love old stuff....
I had this set great to see it again
I was really expecting you to give a close-up view of the figurines.Painted soldiers from a box are just heaven sent for a ten year old. For a ten year old, that is a big size battleground. For little fingers, the soldiers would be running around, ducking, shooting from every cover available.
I didn´t do that because I´m not sure which ones realy came with the set and they were in so so condition. I´m working on getting all the Britains Deetail ww2 figures (to start) and make videos on just those sets.
I was a little late for this era; the age of action figures was in full swing during my childhood. But I still had a few toy soldiers who could have had some epic battles in this little playset.
I'm not sure why this video popped up in my recommendations, but I really enjoyed it. I'll have to check out the channel.
I think action figures based on tv-shows realy took over the toy market early 80s.
Glad you like it. There´s not that much on TH-cam on late 60s-70s toys. Plenty on 80s MOTU TMNT SW though :)
I had the guns of Naverone set. Loved it. It got so much hard play it didn't survive. Im currently trying to find a complete set but its not likely. If i do no doubt it will be $800 or more
Then you can imagine how much it will cost me living in Sweden. Shipping and custom fees on top of the crazy price.
WOW!, Britains were always a little out of our price range as a kid, but the quality was fantastic and had I been aware of this as a kid, this playset would have been on my wish list...Mortar team, BREN Operator and flamethrower op my faves, never seen them before...Thanks again...
fantastic set 💂🏻♀
In the mid 70s my friend upstairs from me got a big cowboy & Indian set.
It was two big plastic towers to resemble cliffs and a bridge piece to lock them together, to resemble a natural stone overpass.
It was great and we had a lot of fun with it.
I also had hundreds of toy soldiers (plastic)
I had a large American revolution set, blue and red,
A large civil war set blue and grey and brown
Same for a WW1 set, and WW2 set
At our summer camp I used to spend hours setting them up and pushing the sand to cover the standing bases so they looked real and incorporate sticks, small stones and moss etc for realism
I even built a stone wall out of pebbles once about 2 ft long
What I had left by the time I was a teen, I boxed up carefully to put away, to save for when I had kids of my own,
They were all destroyed by mice stored in my parent's home. 😞
Same with my extensive collection of all the original Star wars stuff from the 70s
And my hundreds of 1960s and 70s comic books
Just thousands and thousands worth of stuff.. completely destroyed
Oh no that´s so sad.
I´m stealing the idea with the sand on the base plate for upcoming outdoors sandbox videos. I think I´ve seen that wild west set online. I think it´s a Marx playset right?
@toysoldiernostalgia I don't recall either names (of the play set or company)
I remember only that the cliffs (2) were molded from a beige plastic with some holes to resemble cave entrances,
and the small bridging piece.
I think it also had a few plastic boulders (for the Indians to drop in cowboys) 🤣
And "I think" it had a plastic sheet to roll out with a desert scene graphics (like a trail with shrubs printed on it, to set the pieces on) but I'm not 100% sure if that.
This was around 1975/76? when he got it for Xmas.
Basically like a perfect ambush type setup
I'm happy for you, I'm still looking for a replacement computer that my dad threw away when I was 12 back in 2001. After all these years I still won't drop it!. I added Mexico 🇲🇽 all 7 central American flags and I think I bought Paraguays added to my collection. I also collect flags along side my soldiers and policeman figurines.
Love this channel, it’s like being a kid again
Thanks man! :)
That playmat looks so versatile. Would love a couple
just beautiful
Every time I watch, I look at that Flight Deck box, and remember the utter disappointment on opening it on XMas day when I was a child. LOL
I will set it up one of these days and try it out.
@@toysoldiernostalgia No don't, you'll cry and hate it like I did :)
@@MONTY-YTNOM LOL!
Can’t wait to get sets like these for my son!
I’ve been collecting for 20 odd years now and I didn’t even know this set existed! I’m still trying to find the matchbox rocket attack set, for me, that is the holy grail!
I was also locking for the Rocket Attack set. But after I saw one for sale on Ebay about 6 months ago I decided against it. The playmat just didn´t look that great and the parts it came with was so so. I just didn´t get excited about it.
I think the Beach Head Assault is a much better and cool set.
There is one set I have not come across since the early 80s. It was a pack of ONLY army men. Four different colors in separate plastic bubbles attached to a cardboard backing. The one we bought hung on a clip strip on a grocery store aisle in Cumberland Md. My dad a d myself were waiting outside for the store to open a d rushed in. We lover army men. The colors of the plastic soldiers were green, mustard yellow, an odd red/brown and a grey. Dad always said that were German, American, Australian and French. Good times!
Kinda like this?
www.tradera.com/item/1805/651629452/nytt-vintage-mini-soldiers-set-6-nations-w-flags-120-st-militaria-70-90-tal-1
Thanks for another fun video Jerry! I always wished my parents would buy me some Britain's toy soldiers but they were too expensive in the US. Probably because they were imports. I could get 2 or 3 boxes of Airfix, Matchbox or ESCI for the price of a handful of Britains. Anyway you're so entertaining and love your videos! Cheers my friend!
Thanks man. Cheers!
Love it, point blank mayhem, also your grenade gerry - they are always lopsided even when new, and ur flamethrower guy, hes not missing owt - barrelwise.
That be awesome!Thanks for sharing!
Enjoy your channel. Love that t-shirt
Working on making t-shirts with all the ww2 officers from Airfix. Check the channel and see when you can get one :)
@@toysoldiernostalgia brilliant
I can remember seeing that set for sale, in the late 1970's/early 1980's - and it was really quite expensive. A good set, though. Britain's models were always great - their artillery pieces were astonishing, however, it always annoyed me that they made two large WW1 guns - a howitzer and a mounted naval gun - but never made any troops of the right era (1914-18) to go with them. They did make some lead ones, which I had, but never any 'Swoppit' or 'Deetail' ones, which I'm sure would have sold well.
Britains even with their Deetail line kinda kinda inbetween collector and toy. I think that´s why they did those sets that didn´t fit with the rest.
super cool set! it's quite well made
That mortar rules
Nice set!
Now that is a beautiful palyset. Would have killed to have had one as a child in the 70's.
That's a gorgeous set 😍 👌
Congrats 👏 👏
Thanks dude :)
I remember getting this as a birthday present back in the day
Ok, I was born in 1972, my dad had and got me the Deetail WWII soldiers and the also the Crusaders and dont get mad at me the Storm Lords which I always thought of as the Turks for some strange reason as a kid. I still have them and absolutely did not allow my kids to play with them. Every single model is older than I am. I did allow my kids to play with the plastic ones but not the painted ones.
GREAT FIND SIR,YOUR GERMAN IS MISSING A LIGHT MACHINEGUN.BMC TOYS ARE REPRODUCING SOME OF THE BUILDINGS FROM THE OLD MARX'S SETS AND OLD TOY SOLDIERS FIGURES.BEING A FIFTY KID,WE DID HAVE A LARGE SELECTION OF PLAY SETS TO ENJOY.TAKE CARE AND PLAY ON.REMEMBER "DON'T GROW UP"
I was noticing that the mortar has a spring loaded trigger. It looks as if it is designed to shoot some sort of small toy projectile from the tube. I had a similarly designed cannon in a Wild West Frontier Fort when I was a boy that fired small plastic cannon balls.
Yes they came with some small plastic shells.
The video is great but the important question is: where did you find that fantastic Airfix tshirt?!!
I made it. Working on making t-shirts with all the ww2 officers from Airfix. Check the channel and see when you can get one :)
@@toysoldiernostalgia Sounds great, will look even greater!! 😎👍
I have the red building in my collection... Nice to see the whole thing...
nice set :) i have this set , always nice to go with the toy soldiers :)
I really wanted the 1/76 scale WW2 German strongpoint set. Very cool, but too expensive.
I did have the airfix gun emplacement - lots of fun.
I had the Guns of Navarone set. The artillery really fired plastic pellets.
one word brilliant !!
One word, Thanks :)
Bloody lovely. Thank you, Jerry. Ho. Ho. Ho.
It would seem that Britains did not rely on bold packaging to sell their products. Unlike Matchbox, Airfix, etc. where the Box Art was a major influence for children to buy, Britains went with a more subdued approach. I wonder, did Britains have one eye on the Collectors' Market back then?
Who knows how they came up with that packaging.
Cool set & t-shirt 👍
Soon you can get a T-shirt of your own :)
This is a cool set, and it looks like it's in beautiful condition.
I think it was in pretty good condition for it´s age.
Love the t shirt were did you get it.
I made it. I Will make them with all the different officers on.
Nice set - enjoy!
My brother got that for his birthday or Christmas and we played with it endlessly 😊
OMG. Where did you get the Airfix Para t-shirt?
I made it. Working on making one for each officer from the ww2 sets. Will do a Print on demand thing for you to get one.
@@toysoldiernostalgia Fantastic! Thanks!
I was lucky enough to get the set at a good price a few years ago and it’s a great toy soldier playset especially if like Deetail.
Wow, I completely forgot I had this when I was a kid!
I. Collect 80s. Nice to meet you. Some of your stuff overlapez mine. Nice collection. Very impressive. May you consider me to inherits it if you're unsure of the future of it all.
I think my son is first on the list if I die 😀
Very nice Jerry!
Thanks.
Surely you wouldn't of had a Stanley knife to open your presents has a kid 😁. If you had removed the bubble wrap more carefully, you could of used it again. Love your enthusiasm for the sets you receive. 👍
my best friend had this and wasn't really a fan...till i showed him how to use fire crackers! His dad gave us a huge pile of sand to build our battles and then set off explosions, we had to reinforce our troops when the plastic would melt and we get the cheap plastic guys at Ben Franklin...ironically American reinforcements..we even tried a plane on fire, some model tanks with glue on fire and filmed it.....we had fun playing this one summer until we discovered Dad had Playboy magazines in the bathroom.
Did you ever see the one with a bridge on it and a V2 rocket sled and a bren gun that could fire bullets using compressed air? thank you.
Haven´t seen that. Wonder what company made it?
best hobby ever🤗🤗🤗🤗
Great job 👏🏻
Thanks :)
Great stuff 👏