When it comes to armour kits, I will admit that I’m not as hardcore as some people. I like my tanks small, simple and cool looking. Of course, if the kit is a Matchbox then it doesn’t matter at all WHAT the subject is, I’m buying it. I LOVE the little old Matchbox 1/76 armour kits, and find they tick all the right boxes. They’re small and easy to display. They build up fairly simply and they are, almost to a one, all of vehicles I think are cool looking. Even if I’m only “meh” on the vehicle, usually the diorama base sells me!

One of the collection I picked up a while ago was the old Matchbox Jagdpanzer IV/L70. I did know the Jagdpanzer IV, and thought it was a cool “sports-car”-looking tank destroyer. It has low lines and is very aggressive. No surprised I jumped at it when I saw it! I’m not sure if it’s been repopped by Revell Germany, but if it hasn’t been, it should be.

Check out my out of box review of this little old gem at the link below. I seriously cannot get enough of these little guys!

https://adamrehorn.wordpress.com/model-kits/out-of-box-reviews/matchbox-176-jagdpanzer-iv-l70-oob/

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I built a few of those kits in my younger days...are matchbox kits still being produced?

Matchbox kits are nowadays reboxed from ROG.
http://www.revell.de/en/products/model-building/military-figures/vehicles-wwii.html
1/76 scale kits are old Matchbox releases.

How long has it been since they got out of the plastic model business?

The Matchbox brand name was used until 2001 :

http://www.matchboxkits.org/

H.P.

The Matchbox kits were pretty cool for their day, built a lot when I was a kid, revisited them years and years later after getting back into the swing of things after college. The only downside is that the tracks were usually pretty poor. I had several of mine disintegrate over time...

Damon.

We have had a couple of Matchbox 1/76 campaigns here over the years. I have participated in two of them. They had some excellent builds of these cool kits. You should go into the gallery and look them up in the campaigns section - well worth the browse!

Thanks,
Stephen

The only matchbox kit I build as a kid was this one;


I remember it was an extreme strong plane with rotatable wheels, I landed and drove on all our furniture!

I'm getting all nostalgic now...

Wow, they made Matchboxes until 2001? Crazy!

I know a lot of the armour is available as RoG, as are some of the planes. I didn't know they made an F.XXI, although I'm not surprised. I still want to get my hands on their Norseman and their Buffalo!

Glad that people enjoyed the trip down memory lane; if it's one thing I can do, it's review old kits. Lord knows I've got a tonne of 'em!