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Matchbox Nostalgia Campaign

a campaign report by Jan Etal
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The result
The campaign began Jan. 15, 2010 and ran until the official ending date of June 15, 2010. During the campaign the official thread generated approximately 650 postings and just short of 28,000 views. Hundreds of build pictures were posted and innumerable issues and problems were both presented and most often resolved.

Forty-two people originally enlisted and twenty-six completed the campaign and were awarded ribbons. Of the 28 original 1/76 kits all but two were built leaving us without the LRDG Chevrolet and Jeep (PK-173) and the Diamond ‘T’ Prime Mover (PK-174).

The successful members were: Braille, casualmodeler, CMOT70, Dangeroo, dutchboyinohio, eMan, Firefly74, firstcircle, greywolf, gwyndaffandy, madmax5510, manicmodeler, NWBrit, Maxiplus, muddyfields, minas-ithil, muttley, phantom_phanatic309, sabredog, SJTJKJ, Smartin, tatbaqui, Technocrat, Torchy, tread_geek, weathering_one.

Special thanks to firstcircle (Matthew Lenton) and Dangeroo (Stefan Halter) for their assistance with this project.

Please Note: Pictures are the property of their respective Copyright holders and are arranged in original Matchbox ‘PK’ number order.
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About the Author

About Jan Etal (tread_geek)
FROM: ONTARIO, CANADA

I've been building models since about age 10 with the occasional hiatus due to real life events. First armour model was a 1/76 Airfix Tiger I and was followed by a 1/72 Revell F4U Corsair. I've built primarily 1/76 and 1/72 armour and aircraft but occasionally have tinkered in other larger scales....


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tread_geek
Eddy, glad you enjoyed the campaign and liked the feature. I've been in a few campaigns and tried to take the best examples of leadership from each of them. In the "On the Eastern Front Campaign", Andrzej Snigorski [ ENDRJU007 ] broke the ground for campaign features and I merely tried to emulate his work to an extent. He did a great job on his own but I was fortunate enough to have the assistance of my fellow campaigners. Trust me, I both needed and appreciated it. With around 125 build pictures to sort and edit it was quite the undertaking. Thanks, Jan
AUG 02, 2010 - 06:12 AM
weathering_one
All I can say is, WOW. Jan, what a fantastic job you, your helpers and the feature people did. I think that the article part really gives insight into the essence and mood during the campaign. Two thumbs up! Regards, AJ
AUG 03, 2010 - 08:43 AM
redcap
A nice trip down childhood 'Memory Lane' looking at some of these little gems; most of which I built as a child then a teenager . Oh for the days of innocence when we all spent more time building kits and less time debating / arguing about fractions of mm's on kit dimensions, indy track links, Panzer 46 colour schemes, chipping or not chipping etc. etc. Great stuff and thanks for sharing all those pics! Gary
AUG 04, 2010 - 04:56 AM
tread_geek
@AJB - AJ, as one of the successful campaigners, take a bow. @redcap - Gary, thanks for your interest and comments. The enthusiasm, efforts and results of the individual builds pictured speak for themselves. Cheers, Jan
AUG 05, 2010 - 03:53 AM
firstcircle
Super article, Jan. Sorry I couldn't reply earlier, I have been in deepest France, away from any computer, for the last two weeks. Glad to see the feature up and published. Not sure why, one of the photos managed to squeak out of place, but never mind. The article does indeed show the spirit of the campaign, which was great fun, and managed to produce so many really quite awesome looking models and photos. Just goes to show how much fun one used to be able to have for 47pence. Something slightly tragic happened in France however... I took the toolkit and an unmade Italeri SdKfz222, you know, just in case I got the urge. As it goes I didn't need it, but somehow managed to leave the toolkit behind. Knife, cement, cutters, pliers, tweezers, files, drill bits, chuck.
AUG 09, 2010 - 11:21 AM
tread_geek
Matthew, I am glad that the article meets with your approval as you were a great help in it's timely completion. You did mention that you were going away on vacation so I couldn't contact you to review the final draft. However, except for the one anomaly I must again say that the feature staff did a very nice job with formatting the article. With all the pictures that were involved it had to be quite the task. I am sorry to here that your toolkit went AWOL. Perhaps it is just misplaced in your luggage? I know what it is like to have a favourite tool or tools, especially those that you have become very comfortable with. As far as preferred tools goes, if one goes missing or is broken it can be traumatic as more often than not you cannot find a duplicate replacement. Cheers, Jan
AUG 10, 2010 - 03:01 AM
CMOT
If you let the features staff know which picture is out of order and where it should be they will correct it for you.
AUG 10, 2010 - 03:46 AM
firstcircle
It is of course on page 2 of the feature where the first photo of the Humber PK-75 has slewed in front of the Panzer III PK-74. Jan, I will leave it to you to request the change as you know who you contacted etc. Toolkit - no, I know exactly where it is in the house, but I think I can get the next people in the house to bring it back to England for me.
AUG 10, 2010 - 05:41 AM
CMOT
Error sorted.
AUG 10, 2010 - 05:46 AM
tread_geek
WOW, what fantastic and phenomenal service from the feature people. I was just about to write to Keith about the Humber being out of position but decided to check my archive and the exact position on page 2. Low and behold I missed both Matthew's post and Darren's. My sincere thanks to both of you for seeing to the anomaly being corrected. Big Cheers, Jan
AUG 10, 2010 - 08:27 AM
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