Whilst we're talking nostalgia! At the Gloucester IPMS show a couple of months ago I bought a couple of classic kits second hand 😊
The first was an original Matchbox packaged Monty's caravan - on three different coloured sprues with a diorama base to display the finished model - £5! The second was the classic Tamiya SAS Jeep also for £5!
I failed to photograph the build but I have to say it wasn't too bad. The instructions suffer a little from trying to cram too much into each image. Often the position of parts that go on the far side of the vehicle were unclear. There were also a couple of obvious errors.
However for a kit that dates back to 1980ish it was pretty good.
The Dingo is a beautiful little model. A little fiddly to assemble, but a great scale rendition of this popular vehicle.
The diorama base represents a street seen in a German(?) city and has detail of tram lines and a destroyed statue. There is Monty, 2 staff members and a map table made from a piece of Wriggly tin and two oil drums.
Monty was the only casualty - he was missing his right (pointing) arm and I had to make a replacement.
Altogether a nice little model, one I never built when I was younger. It's crying out for an interior too. The inside of the caravan has the dividing wall to Monty's bathroom with wood panel detail and a moulded in map table.
Nice!
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