Mad Matchbox Week end... 19-20 March 2005
Mad Matchbox Days..?
I'm taking you back to the '70s; Disco music, flared trousers, afro hair-do's, Pot-Noodles and many other ridiculously weird things. But some great things came out in the '70s too: Hotel California, huh... and the famed 1/76 line of Matchbox AFVs..!
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Well, this is simple enough. Locate a Matchbox kit (AFV only please!), and give yourself a whole 48 hours to build it, vehicle,
diorama and all! Because the great novelty thing with those Matchbox kits were the little base with the accessories and figures that came along with those kits. Remember the little bridge that came along with the Firefly..?
It's not that difficult to locate those kits. E-bay, Kingkit (www.kingkit.co.uk), and now Revell re-issuing them. Won't break the bank either!
48 hours to built the kit out of the box or bring in as many improvements as you care. Kitbashing, conversions allowed as long as it is based upon the kit
and accompanying base. That little diorama can too be modified, detailled, included into a larger base, whatever, but it must be in there somewhere! Without it, you won't deserve your Mad Matchbox Week end badge...!
It's planned for the week end of the 19th and 20th of March 2005. I'm giving you two days because my MAD experience has shown that a MAD day project is really hard to complete!
Who's in? So far, 9 of us:
Cplchilly (PzIII ausf.L)
Deusmex (Chaffee)
Jeff Gunn (?)
Keyworth (?)
KJ200 (?)
Petbat (Stuart)
Rob Gronovius (?)
Tankergeoff (Priest)
and myself (Firefly)
In case you're not convinced yet, let me refresh your memory a little, though! There were some great little models in that range. Enough for all tastes!
Monty's Caravan
Wespe
SdKfz 232 6-Rad
SdKfz 11 + BMW + PaK40
Humber
Stuart
M7 Priest
