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Matchbox model kits
By: Dave Date: December 13, 2013, 3:05 pm
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Up to about the age of 16 I used to build loads of aircraft
kits, mostly Airfix and Matchbox. Recently a couple of friends
have got back into building them. Mostly Revell and Airfix...
but what happened to Matchbox? Are they still going?
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Re: Matchbox model kits
By: Wooden Date: December 13, 2013, 3:20 pm
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I don't know if they are still made, but there are always a lot
on t'Bay - still boxed and on the 'sprue' (is that right?).
Type in "Matchbox 1/72" in the search bar and you'll get page
after page of kits.
I used to build and paint these too Dave, and I've often mused
about building a few again. I also regret throwing my old ones
away.
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Re: Matchbox model kits
By: Dave Date: December 13, 2013, 3:59 pm
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When my pal and I visited the RAF museum a few weeks ago we each
bought a kit and spent the evening drinking, talking bollox and
building the models. I got a Sopwith Triplane and he got some
filthy hun machine - a Fokker DVII or something. They weren't
Matchbox though.
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Re: Matchbox model kits
By: Albert Ross Date: December 13, 2013, 4:05 pm
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Matchbox, moulded in 2 or 3 different colours, and even better
than those, "FROG", in the transparent plastic bags, were
awesome for detail and relative obscurity of subject matter.
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Re: Matchbox model kits
By: Dave Date: December 13, 2013, 4:14 pm
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From about age 11 to 15 I used to go to the air display at RAF
Church Fenton most years. I'd save up months of pocket money and
blow the lot on aircraft kits. There were stalls selling kits
that you couldn't normally get (no interwebz and ebay then, of
course!) and the obscure stuff that I'd never even heard of. I
think the smallest one I had was the Pitts Special and the
largest the Boeing B29 Superfortress.
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Re: Matchbox model kits
By: bubble Date: December 14, 2013, 5:37 am
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I used to build Airfix stuff as a child as well but was more
into tanks and the like. Can always remember spending ages
painting the cockpit and pilot of a plane and then ruining it as
the glue went all over the canopy so you couldn't see through
it. Haven't built a plastic kit for years but must confess I've
just ordered this as a xmas pressie to myself.
HTML http://www.amazon.co.uk/Revell-Scale-U-Boat-Type-Interieur/dp/B00029D0B0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1387020973&sr=8-3&keywords=revell+u-boat
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Re: Matchbox model kits
By: divie Date: December 14, 2013, 7:15 am
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Interesting thread, as a toolmaker in the mould and die trade I
have made tooling for Matchbox. I will now have to find out if
they are still going.
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Re: Matchbox model kits
By: Rory Date: December 17, 2013, 4:35 am
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Matchbox vanished years ago but the molds turned up under Revell
Germany who released things like the He115 and some of the
trucks.
I collect original Matchbox, yes I am that sad.
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Re: Matchbox model kits
By: Wooden Date: December 17, 2013, 4:58 am
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Fear not, Rory; for you are among the sad.
Do you collect them and keep them in their original boxes, or do
you build them? Do you have many? lets have some pics..!
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Re: Matchbox model kits
By: StuartN Date: December 17, 2013, 10:13 am
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Always loved airfix as a kid.
Have loads in the attic that I have no idea what to do with.
Don't want to throw them out but nowhere to display them...
Most have bits broken off from storage. Always enjoyed the
building more than the displaying.
S :thumbs:
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