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Matchbox's little old Panzer II - Out of Box Review


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I’ve always had an interest in armour, but I only ever built a couple of tanks when I was much younger, and I didn’t think that much of the experience. However, with time, I’ve thought that maybe building another tank is something I could try, since I have improved my modelling quite a bit in the intervening decades. The thing is, I really don’t like having to buy all kinds of photoetch and resin stuff, and that seems to be a big part of the tank models I see.

I just wanted something simple. Something like a Matchbox plane, but as a tank. Well, that’s exactly what I found! I came across a guy selling a bunch of old Matchbox 1/76 armour kits at a flea market a while ago and bought a big lot of little tanks!

I decided to bust one out and see what it was like. It looks like a blast! I think I might be getting dragged over to the dark side! Check out my out of box review for the old Matchbox Panzer II Ausf. F: I figured I might as well start small…

https://adamrehorn.wordpress.com/176-matchbox-panzer-ii-ausf-f/

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The Matchbox 1/76 AFV kits were. with only a couple of exceptions, exceptionally well-detailed without being overly complex to build, with the nice bonus of including interesting little diorama bases. The only real drawback of these kits -- as with many other AFV kits of the era -- were the vinyl tracks, which were generally fairly terrible -- although IIRC the PzII tracks were (relatively) decent.

Most of the kits are still available today in Revell-DE boxes. They're easily identifiable because they are clearly labelled as "1/76", as opposed to Revell's own 1/72 kits.

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