Matchboxkits.org......down the memory lane....

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Maaan....! Just scanned through the '70-'80 catalogue, talk about flashbacks! That was the one and only Matchbox catalogue that I ever had!
 
Had to go back here again for a wee walk down the Memory Lane....

How many knew that it was at the end of the 70's that EU regulations said, that there should be no violence on the boxes, so the artwork had to be revised whenever the studio had time to do it? I thought that EU had this brainf*rt much later....

http://www.matchboxkits.org/images/PDF/The_Revell_Matchbox_story.pdf The Revell-Matchbox Story....
 
Back in the 70s I'd spend my paper-round money at the local newsagents, who stocked a pretty good selection of Matchbox kits. I've probably built most of them in the last 40 years! They tend to get overlooked in favour of more recent offerings nowadays, but they still scrub up nicely and some (like the Wellesley) have never been released by other manufacturers. Here are three fairly recent builds:

Gloster Gladiator in Lithuanian AF markings.


He-70 in pre-war markings


Vickers Wellesley
 
I think many of us met these Matchbox kits going along the modelling path.I have still a few of them sitting in my stash and waiting for assembling as well.A few of them I mean P-51,Hurricane,Tempest and Spitfire I made years ago.
 

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The Halifax was quite a nice kit (still is, under the Revell lable). Still got an un-built B17 - a bit plain, but could be made into a reasonable model. I was going to build it as a RAF100 Group RCM bird for the Heavy Hitters GB, but time ran out.....
 
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