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Matchbox landslide! A once-in-a-lifetime rain of British classics!

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    October 2020
Matchbox landslide! A once-in-a-lifetime rain of British classics!
Posted by Faust on Wednesday, March 31, 2021 8:23 PM
If there’s one thing I love about going to hobby shops, it’s seeing some of the old stuff that’s for sale there. Most shops carry the newest and shiniest, but a lot of them also have a section for old collections that have been bought, and that’s where I love to hang out.
 
 
With all the current travel restrictions, hobby shop runs have been off the table for a while, but thankfully, a local shop came to the rescue with a buy of 1,200-odd old kits!!! Of course, my heart leapt at the prospect, and I wasn’t disappointed!
 
Among these time-travelers were boxes of Matchbox kits, and you know me… I do love me some Matchbox! I managed to get 20 of them that I didn’t already have, plus some other goodies! Check out this haul at the link below, and don’t forget to vote at the bottom of my page! There’s a lot to love here!
 
 
  • Member since
    January 2015
  • From: Tumwater, WA.
Posted by M. Brindos on Wednesday, March 31, 2021 8:50 PM

I love me some Matchbox kits as well and I have thing for old kits too lol. I'd love to see you build them.

- Mike Brindos "Lost Boy"

  • Member since
    September 2012
Posted by GMorrison on Wednesday, March 31, 2021 9:41 PM

That Stranraer is a wonderful kit. Buy some AM Lewis guns and it really is a gem.

Did you get a Victor? or a Privateer?

Shipswise how about the Snowberry?

 

Great stuff!

 

Bill

 Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

 

  • Member since
    May 2020
  • From: North East of England
Posted by Hutch6390 on Thursday, April 1, 2021 3:03 PM

Some old friends there, from my younger days, and a few I couldn't afford at the time - enjoy!

Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, you know?

   

TakkaTakkaTakkaTakkaTakkaTakka

 

  • Member since
    October 2019
  • From: New Braunfels, Texas
Posted by Tanker-Builder on Thursday, April 1, 2021 3:18 PM

Hi Bill;

    The H.M.S. SnowBerry is the one that I eventually Radio Controlled and fit out for real world weather conditions! Kind of heavy Handed in the  plating dept. But a handsome model all the same!

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