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Did someone say "vintage"?
Here are a few of mine. I like building the older kits, partly for nostalgic reasons and partly because I don't like having to build a landing gear strut out of ten plastic parts and two pieces of photo etch!
Lindbergh 1/48 XFY-1 Pogo in [...]
Matchbox Replacements: 1/72 Curtiss SB2C-4E Helldiver & Vought F4U-1D Corsair
These two new completions - an AMT SB2C-4 Helldiver and a Hasegawa F4U-4 Corsair - will be significant upgrades from the Matchbox models they replace in the display cabinet. The AMT Helldiver kit is actually older than the Matchbox - it [...]
Gloster Gladiator 1:72 – a little Matchbox nostalgia
I started it about two years ago as a joy model (Matchbox Gloster Gladiator), then it ended up in a box, because the Alclad primer didn't want to bind, I still don't know why. Even after two years it was still a bit tacky (!). I had some [...]
Matchbox 1/72 Westland Lysander Mk.II, No. PK-7 (1972)
My final Matchbox build from a group build to celebrate Matchbox's 50th anniversary.
Added some extra details in the cockpit, did some cutting to add the landing gear lights and rear clear panels. All and all a very nice kit.
Most of the [...]
Matchbox 1/72 Douglas A-20G Havoc (Green Hornet)
Another build from the Matchbox Group Build to celebrate Matchbox's 50th Anniversary to when they first released plastic model kits.
This may not be the best A-20 out there but I feel for its time, Matchbox did a nice job on providing the [...]
1/72 DH.98 Mosquito Matchbox PK-116
I finally found time to complete a build that’s been hanging around a while. It seems that I’m busier being fully retired compared to when I was working. I built this as a birthday gift for my brother and it will be a display on his [...]
Matchbox 1/72 Spitfire Mk.IX (Royal Egyptian Air Force)
This Spitfire was built for a Matchbox Group Build that is still currently going on to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Matchbox to when they first started releasing their injected mold kits in 1972. In regards to this group build, I [...]
1/76 Matchbox Char B1 bis & Renault FT-17 – Belgium, 14-16 May 1940
Here is the amazing Matchbox diorama from 1983!
Tanks are built straight from the box for the most part.
Paints are all Humbrol enamels and the decals came from the old kit.
PB4Y-2 Privateer "Redwing" (Matchbox, 1980)
I have been meaning to post photos of this model for a long time, and finally got the motivation given the fact it won a first prize in the recent Australian Model Expo. The category was "1/72 - out of the box - non-Commonwealth" [...]
Handley Page Heyford
This is a fairly easy article in that there aren't many models of the prototype out there. The Heyford suffers from the same issue as all British (and for that matter American) interwar heavy bombers. There isn't much interest and only [...]
