BASIC BUILD LRDG DIORAMA
Dave Oliver applies modern painting and weathering techniques to Matchbox’s classic 1970s Long-Range Desert Group diorama
The rather battered box, with its evocative artwork and price sticker for the pocket-money-friendly £1.26. Moulded in three shades of plastic, it proudly proclaimed: ‘No paint required!’
The somewhat clichéd phrase “nostalgia isn’t what it used to be” can also be applied to certain older kits.
