AIRFIX VINTAGE TOY PLASTIC FN FAL RIFLE REVISITED

last seen in one of my 10 year old videos,I now have the bullets,so time for a revisit.

[@adamnunn9723]

Brought back happy memories of mine… had the black one.. firing at targets in the bathroom across the landing from my bedroom 🤗🤣🤣👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@historicmilitaria1944]

It's amazing how a video can bring back memories for people,I'm enjoying reading them

[@viperscot1]

same

[@ianmatthews3041]

Had the Black version can't remember how old I was! Had the Thompson once as well!

[@gunner678]

Awww I had one of these, but in all black. My brother and I were constantly dressed in our combat uniform with buckle up sandals carrying our slr, keeping my villlage safe lol. Great days. Led to 25 years military service. Memories

[@historicmilitaria1944]

Nice

[@tristanbulluss9386]

​@@historicmilitaria1944I have a picture of a ghost on a tv.

[@junglejim99]

Like many others I had a couple of these in black. I kept breaking the barrel off. Mine came on the card back from Woolies. Happy memories.

[@historicmilitaria1944]

Nice

[@charlesschoeman9488]

I got one for Christmas 1961. It lasted for about a month. In July 1975 I was issued a full size working one (wooden butt, polymer pistol grip and hand guard). Lived with her for a year and we took care of each other until completed my National Service in the South African Army. The remainder of my Citizen Force service (similar to UK Territorial Army) We carried the R1 (licensed version of the FAL) and the R4 (licensed version of the Galil). Retired 2014.

[@historicmilitaria1944]

Thanks for sharing your experience

[@pilot2906]

Me too! 81 to 2004. Used the R1 for service shooting competitions. Loved the weapon. The R4 was good...but nothing touched the R1 in my opinion.

[@pilot2906]

Me too! 81 to 2004. Used the R1 for service shooting competitions. Loved the weapon. The R4 was good...but nothing touched the R1 in my opinion.

[@richardthingsilike9562]

I had two of these in the 1970s the all black ones, I have never seen this type before with wood colour. Great fun shooting toy soldiers and my older sister when she was not looking🤣

[@historicmilitaria1944]

Thanks for watching

[@murph8411]

I also had the black one in the 70s but the bendy bayonet and the powerless bullets that got lost so quickly meant it wasn’t used with the bullets or bayonet very often.

[@photosphotos]

Hahaha

[@JohnHughesChampigny]

"They're gonna snap right their across the barrel" -- I cried for hours.

[@consul6262]

I had a black one, don't think I've ever seen on with a wooden finish. Thanks brought back happy memories.

[@historicmilitaria1944]

No prob

[@strawdog291]

Wow, this brings me back. I remember getting the all black Tommy Gun for my birthday from my parents and a few hours later I got the black SLR (we called them FN's) from my aunt, to a 6 year old in 1974 it was like I'd hit the woolie's jackpot. I had the steel cap gun SLR a few years later 20-30 kids, cowboys, indians, pirates and soldiers, armed with everything from a plastic sword to a sparking space gun. That was 40 years ago. Great craic and great memories, thank you.

[@historicmilitaria1944]

Thanks for sharing,really pleased the vid brought back good memories

[@Ken_oh545]

My fave gun was a Luger firing those red cap rolls. One could 'smoke ' from the barrel.

[@JohnHughesChampigny]

The cap gun SLR was much more rugged, but I seem to remember that the magazine was too small.

[@emergingloki]

I had several of these over the years, then Her Majesty gave me a real one to play with. God bless you Ma'am. Today however I'm betting my lad upstairs could knock out spares for that, if not replicate the whole thing, on his 3d printer.

[@billgriffin7346]

I used to knock around with a lad, whose dad used to be a toy company rep. Anyway he used to supply all the local kids with these and the Tommy Gun they did at a knock down rate. Great fun, but the bloody barrels kept snapping off!

[@historicmilitaria1944]

Nice..bet you wished you kept them

[@billgriffin7346]

@@historicmilitaria1944 I do!!

[@Phill3467]

i remember the barrell snapping off

[@GregPotter-ln4pl]

Wow that brought back some memories, I had the Thompson and the black SLR, within a few years I was playing with the real thing!

[@historicmilitaria1944]

Nice

[@davidmarsden9800]

I had the black FN rifle, 2 in fact as the barrel on the first snapped where it met the front grip/shroud. A lot of kids at school had the same problem as well. I also had the Thompson sub machine gun. They were my favorite toys along with my Corgi gold Aston Martin DB5 Goldfinger car. I had most of the popular 1960s toys, it was a great time for kids. When I was an air cadet in the 1970s I qualified as a marksman with a Lee Enfield MKIV stamped WD 1944 as at the time they wouldn't let us use the FN rifles because of the full auto function.

[@gunner678]

Semi Auto in UK service

[@davidmarsden9800]

@@gunner678 Yes, I remember now, but they still didn't trust us with them firing more than one round at a time. Mind you they told us to tell them if we fired high over the range wall as there was a village about a mile away. Emphasis on health and safety at the time.

[@lynnecromack4933]

My black one snapped on the barrel, just as you said. 8 years later the Govt gave me a real one !!

[@Hardrada88]

Cracking!! I can almost hear "it's a long way to mukumbura" (shan't mention a certain tune..) playing xD cool little kit!

[@historicmilitaria1944]

True

[@davidmarsden9800]

Even longer now Rhodesia is long gone.

[@dannywest7587]

I had one of these for Christmas, and it was fantastic for shooting down balloons from the ceiling. The small plastic bullets were partly hollow, so with the help of a penny, a apiece of plasticine, I could force my mums sewing needles through the hollow back of the plastic bullets until the sharp end of the needle pushed through the point of the bullet.When carefully loaded I could fire and hit a balloon ,bursting them eight times from ten.Not bad for a Six year old,not good in school though!

[@historicmilitaria1944]

I love reading these stories,I'm pleased it has been a good nostalgia trip for you.

[@Jaysonbc1234]

Brilliant 🤩 school is rubbish anyway 😅

[@milgeekmedia]

The long barrel always seemed to be the first to suffer in hard play, turning this toy into an 'SLR shorty'! LOL ...I also remember the trigger pull being a bit of a beast. Always a bit of a pity that they never did a M16 or an AK47 or - best of all - a Sterling SMG!!! Good times!

[@historicmilitaria1944]

It's not really a child friendly plastic,i vaguely remember a company doing a full plastic bolt action number 4 rifle

[@t55a2]

@@historicmilitaria1944That’s right, my friend had one, everyone wanted a shot of it. The body was quite a pale brown colour but it looked cool with its strap

[@steelhelmetstan7305]

I remember two brothers in my street had the black ones..their mam took the bullets off them in case of injury. Honestly id of thought they were full size from memory.....but very nice to see😊😊😊😊, i always thought i had imagined the metal one, i do remember that too, another kid had one not me unfortunately 😊

[@migspit]

I had the black one and it did seem larger to me, I remembered breaking it very quickly

[@historicmilitaria1944]

The size catches a lot of people,dont forget as kids we were smaller.....I saw a raleigh chopper bike the other day and was amazed at how small it was....I had one yonks ago and it seemed bigger!!

[@steelhelmetstan7305]

@@historicmilitaria1944 yes agreed CJ, that will be the reason. I wish I had all the toys I had as a kid, gave them all away, Britain's soldiers, dinky battle of britain set, knackered like!, space 1999 lander ,,moonraker shuttle, UFO interceptor, hornby train set, scalextric, action man, numerous early battery video games, etc etc etc....typing all that out seems like I had a spoilt childhood, but that was the 70s and 80s for kids I suppose

[@historicmilitaria1944]

@steelhelmetstan7305 if we had kept al our toys we would be worth a fortune!!!

[@steelhelmetstan7305]

@@historicmilitaria1944 🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍👍true m8

[@A14b19]

My favourite toy barrel kept breaking I had black one one every year . Plus the Tommy ….

[@historicmilitaria1944]

Nice you also had the tommy version

[@A14b19]

Bring back a full size version stronger so us old young kin’s can buy one again 😊

[@marcs4563]

They do the SLR in an airsoft version but over 500 quid 😬

[@historicmilitaria1944]

True

[@biggusdickus5986]

I bought the Henry 1894 Winchester lookalike co2 bb firer £300 at xmas, aint had chance to shoot it yet. Was brand new so hopefully it will work.

[@caeserromero3013]

Imagine a battalion of Oompa Loompas armed with these? They'd be invincible 😂

[@DepakoteMeister]

OMG, after peading with my parents, and depsite being above their budget, I got one of these for my birthday or for Christmas! I was overjoyed...until my dad, whilst showing off his rifle drill snapped the barrel off! Devastated!

[@historicmilitaria1944]

Ooof!! Bet you were not amused

[@DepakoteMeister]

@@historicmilitaria1944 To put it mildy! The poor rifle didn't even last one day!

[@historicmilitaria1944]

@DepakoteMeister I'm not surprised,the plastic wasnt exactly childproof!!

[@garethnicholas6771]

Wow that really brought back fab childhood memories .I had one in the mid 60s. . What a fantastic toy and so realistic. Went on to use a real one a few years later with the TAVR and RAF .

[@jorgemanuelcarloto5975]

Hey, I had one of those! But it was all in black plastic, no wood color. And the helmet had a net over it. Oh, I miss being a kid 😂

[@leemday5731]

Oh my god takes me back had the black one as a kid of 8 or 9 thankyou for puting this up bring back happy memories!

[@historicmilitaria1944]

No prob,pleased it's been such a memory jogger

[@BlueSkaro]

Never had it, but always wanted it. I had the Thompson SMG from a jumble sale that had a broken trigger and was still my favourite toy gun at the time. One of my friends had the Lone Star cap firing SLR which had a hollow softer plastic magazine which was great to store a spare roll of paper caps in. It didnt have a bayonet, but its metal barrel made it last a lot longer... Thanks for the memories!

[@historicmilitaria1944]

No prob,thanks for your comment

[@RobSchofield]

That CLACK/CLANG noise of the trigger pull sent me back to the 70s in a flash... I had the black one on the card backing. Also had a Johnny 7 multi-purpose machine gun years before 😊

[@Grahame59]

I had one of these in the '60s (all black version) and mine too broke where the barrel joins the front grip, very weak spot. Still, I had great fun with it and the lack of barrel didn't stop me playing with it. You say it's one-third scale. Are you sure? That seems very small, I'd have guessed half-scale at least. Shows how times have changed, I can't imagine this being on sale to children today! You don't even see spud guns, cap guns or water pistols on sale today.

[@historicmilitaria1944]

It's a much more sanitized child toys we see nowadays,like coloured stripes dolls and animals which dont really inspire the imagination

[@markbailey3508]

My friend had one of these, always seemed very delicate. I had (can't quite remember the manufacturer) an M16 and a Thompson submachine gun which made a noise when the trigger was pulled. Came in a light green plastic witha sandy brown camouflage pattern

[@historicmilitaria1944]

There were lots of aftermarket hong kong made items,some were better and more authentic than others

[@robertbradley1133]

I think the the green M16 was by Marx bros

[@conorduggan6682]

I had one with the black furniture, and the barrel was the first thing to get broken. I'd forgotten that it was actually airfix. It's funny to see how small it is, I remember it as full-size, probably because it was to child sized me.😅 I trained on the real thing in the reserves in my late teens, and another reason why my memory is playing tricks on me as to how big the toy one was.

[@jaws848]

Always wanted this as a kid but never had it.

[@historicmilitaria1944]

Shame

[@davebarrowcliffe1289]

I had the one with the wooden effect furniture. Mr Newton, the estate agent who sold my parents our house, gave it to me, still in its original box, because his son never played with it.

[@historicmilitaria1944]

What a nice thing to have had

[@photosphotos]

I had the Thompson Sub machine gun with a drum ammunition cartridge which actually performed the task of sound amplification when you pulled the trigger lots. Our neighbour had a a bolt action 303 that fired single bullets, I was very jealous and we ended up with the black slr that’s mentioned in the video. Isn’t nostalgia alive a kicking in a dismal and bleak woked world.

[@bluesteel6612]

I’m another one who had one of these in the early 1970s as a child along with my twin brother - great fun - black painted furniture on the ones we had - worked for a large British retailer in early 1980s for a very short while and I distinctly remember we stocked a version of FN SLR updated version of Airfix made in metal only a small supply of them though we held in stock and sold no more than 10 . Around 1984 perhaps someone somewhere knows who made them.

[@historicmilitaria1944]

The metal ones were by lone star

[@mikecaine3643]

I'm in my seventies and had one (All Black) in the late 50's or early sixties - brilliant bit of kit !

[@historicmilitaria1944]

Even today it's still a nice little gem

[@jasondavis4813]

Happy memories I had the black one best toy I ever had many a day playing war with my pals or watching old black and white war films on the telly taking out German soldiers with the little plastic bullets😊

[@kathrynwhitby9799]

i had one of these in black, used to use the waste paper basket as a target. :)

[@kurtcoolson9054]

Back in the day (1960's) I had the black version, plus the Merit helmet AND a Johnny Seven...I was totally tooled up.

[@SL-yo9pq]

Amazing! never new about these. Beats the Johnny7 I used to have for authentic looks.

[@historicmilitaria1944]

Was looking at one of those on e bay,now approaching second hand car money for a nice boxed example

[@user-bc6cb9zu1u]

I too had one, all black and yes, the barrel broke off as well. Loved it though. 👍

[@clockmonkey]

Got one of these for Xmas and pretty sure it lasted till the Summer with me and my brother playing with it. Eventually did break and was binned. Wish I'd kept the plastic bullets as someone would have been glad of them nowadays.

[@historicmilitaria1944]

Exactly the fate of most of these pieces..I'm surprised theres any complete examples left!!

[@MAXERNEST]

i had both FAL and the Thompson sub gun ,either xmas or birthday , we used to re enact the Sunday afternoon John Wayne war films great fun and times

[@leecormack2413]

I had one of these. My brother had the Thompson. Twenty years later I was issued a real one. Good times.

[@edwinsmith-jones6205]

I inherited my uncles Tommy gun. It was already a bit busted up. Somewhat amazingly, the only thing I have left is a handful of bullets for it.

[@M0WWS]

Had one of these as a kid. Thought I'd imagined it.

[@christopherdean1326]

I had one back in the early 70s(?) Absolutely my favourite toy gun out of the many, many, many toy guns that passed through my hands. Briefly carried a real one while failing to pass basic training in 1984.

[@ljdasilva3139]

A friend of mine had one as a kid - but it was nothing compared to the awesome firepower of my Johnny 7 OMA 🙃- It's a cruel world.

[@historicmilitaria1944]

That was a great gun,it had many features to keep a kid busy

[@BurtReynoldstash]

We had a great toy shop in Sheffield called red gates. Many dress up sets, guns etc came from there. The plastic tin helmet looked much like one I had with a camo suit

[@tanfosbery1153]

Had a black one as a child back in the 60s. Seemed a lot bigger then

[@historicmilitaria1944]

We were a lot smaller!!

[@miksstudio]

Holy crap I would've loved that. My brother and I got bolt action rifles for one Christmas, they looked like Kar German rifles, I remember using one of my folks empty cigarette packets to look like a Lee Enfield magazine lol. When you worked the bolt a plastic round was ejected, I had a real brass cartridge case I would put in it so I could eject a "spent" shell.

[@gunner678]

Yes I had the lone star as well, great bit of kit.

[@reubendobbs8011]

Funny I had one too metal

[@gunner678]

@@reubendobbs8011 poppy got them didn't he.

[@historicmilitaria1944]

Nice

[@issigonis975]

Brings back memories. I was given a £1 for a birthday and bought one while staying at my Grannies. Lent it somebody he broke it I being young and mardy went off on one, and demanded money. Later his BIG brother came handed me a pound and told me to never go down to that estate again. Did not buy another with the money as this spoilt the pleasure. I wanted the Lee Enfield one more but never got it. Managed thought to handle a real Lee Enfield at the time and a German Mauser a mate's father had in the loft and not knowing my rifle calibres took along a spent NATO round and we got it jammed in the mauser not sure why but we spent quite a while trying to get it back out. I was banned from touching it again by my mate. Also had the fright of my life as a 7 year old from an FLN when a guy in a jeep who had one on his dashboard pulled up at the neighbours I got my toy gun and pretended to shoot him he got is FLN out pointed it at me and went bang at me I never ran so fast. Thanks for the memories.

[@Gareth1959]

Thanks for the video. Mine was the black version and yes, mine snapped at the place you mentioned not too long after getting it, as I recall. I think some tape was put round it as an attempt at fixing, but I remember it disappearing not long after.

[@historicmilitaria1944]

Sad they didnt make them out of a better plastic...no doubt yours went in the bin

[@TheCatBilbo]

God, had the black version back in late 1970s. How I wish I'd stuck it all in the loft! I don't even remember what happened to it eventually.

[@Blitz1944]

I have never seen one before, I would had loved that rifle as a kid 👍

[@historicmilitaria1944]

They didnt seem to have much of a shelf life

[@edwardharding6064]

Good grief, I can remember having the Black version. I can also receiving a lecture from my next door neighbour as to why it was a British SLF and not, definitely not, an FN. The I joined the Army, got a real one, and, yes, he was right.

[@Sarah-JaneR32]

Wow that brings back a lot of memories and nostalgia :) they were everywhere in school play grounds :)

[@jamesmcmahon7837]

Had one of them in black in mid 70’s came on card backing.. Remember the Thomson too.. barrel snapped off mine too lol

[@historicmilitaria1944]

The fate of many....I bet theres gardens all over the uk with those little silver plastic bullets surfacing every so often!

[@Dog-whisperer7494]

Airfix released a metal version in the late seventies and it was cap firing . I had both the had the real L1A1 SLR when I joined the army . In eighty three .

[@Farmguy1]

I had one in 1965, It was very cool.

[@historicmilitaria1944]

It would have been the latest must have toy in its day

[@lordred4116]

Wow, from my childhood, but I can't remember seeing one, or knowing anyone who had one. The toy gun everyone wanted was the "Johnny 7 OMA" sadly, I never had one of them either.

[@slick_slicers]

I had one of these, and guess what? Yes, it broke just in front of the gas plug! I replaced it with a metal and plastic version that had a metal barrel and receiver with plastic for grip, pistol grip and butt. It did eventually get broken, as the plastic parts were still brittle, but it lasted an awful lot longer than The Airfix one. I had the Thompson submachine gun too and it lasted much better, but the longest lasting of all was an almost entirely plastic bolt action rifle. It had some metal parts in the bolt and cap firing mechanism. It wasn’t modern, but it was the best!

[@jamiewilson5679]

I had a bolt action rifle that fired hollow plastic bullets in the early 70s.

[@historicmilitaria1944]

It was a number 4 rifle...been trying for years with no success to find one or the maker...the kid next door to me had one

[@andrewfox6631]

I remember having a metal and plastic m16 as a kid

[@historicmilitaria1944]

Possibly a lone star make

[@brealistic3542]

Nice kids toy ! Very well done.

[@DH.2016]

Had the black one also plus the plastic helmet with netting (was never sure what was the front and what was the back when wearing it). I can remember the barrel on mine was broken at the point you highlighted but cause of my misfortune was me running through a doorway holding the rifle horizontally (rifle wider than the doorway. D'oh!) - traumatic event but my boyish mind soon got over it and thereafter, it became a nifty SMG! 😄

[@nedkelly5307]

I had one, all black in colour. The barrel did indeed snap where it joins the stock. My older brother fixed it by gluing a piece of dowel inside the barrel. It no longer fired but I'd lost the bullets anyway.

[@kzin66]

Had great fun with these as a kid. The black version vs my mates Tommy gun in the corridor of our flats ! Probably get an armed response unit called out these days.

[@markingledow9495]

Hilariously (it was the 1970’s…) my Father returned from a month long Army deployment with one of these for me (male) and a toy carpet-sweeper for my sister…

[@historicmilitaria1944]

The carpet sweeper would have prob lasted longer!

[@tonkerdog1]

There was a manufacturer that used to make full scale models with working mechanisms.

[@historicmilitaria1944]

The only one that comes to mind is the company l and s scale models,a Japanese firm who sold plastic kits of pistols and machine guns back in the 1970s and 1980s.

[@steveboyd8994]

Cried my eyes out when mine broke playing in the back garden 😭

[@PeteCourtier]

I had one and loved it😍 At ATC camp at RAF Lynham in 1986 I got to fire a real one.

[@viperscot1]

thanks for this brought back epic times playing with this the all black one

[@historicmilitaria1944]

No problem,pleased it unlocked memories

[@azzamat001]

When I was a kid I would have loved a toy SLR, but it was all M16A1s in my part of the world.

[@ThreenaddiesRexMegistus]

I never saw these, despite being a big fan of Airfix. The detail is pretty awesome. The extra 1/2 penny it would have taken to reinforce that barrel must have been a profit killer. In New Zealand you were pretty flash if you had the 1/3 scale Lincoln Toys Lee-Enfield SMLE .303, complete with pot-metal bolt. We all coveted this as lads in the 1960’s. Even trying to re-launch such a thing these days would cause protests and cancellation, but I suppose we were a bit less confused as boys back then, we wanted guns and that was that! I’d like both for on the wall these days, having had a few of the real thing, with the odd Mauser and Garand thrown in. 👍🏻 EDIT: Just tried to access Batallion Toys Australia site but it looks like the e-Safety Karen might have restricted access to these dangerous items. They were doing an SLR, Owen gun, and a lumpy looking Lee Enfield, but this was 2021 so they may be out of business . The SLR was about AU$38.

[@davidoldboy5425]

OMG you'd have social services round nowadays giving this to your kids, I had one and loved it.

[@luciusvorenus9445]

That is cool. Hope kids lucky enough to get one enjoyed them!

[@tomsenior7405]

Excellent. I am lucky enough to be able to restore these toys back to their original condition. This requires the use of epoxy Fish Tank Cement, Superglue, Milliput, Plasticard, Filler and a heck of a lot of skill and patience. A full restoration takes upwards of 3 months. I do this for my own enjoyment only. I have never allowed myself to spend more than £150.00 per battered toy, and I have only ever found one "New" condition carded example at a price I could afford. Why do I do this? Just for the Hell of it. Who doesn't want to be 6 years old again, for a while at least.

[@Dog-whisperer7494]

There was also a plastic model of the lee Enfield 303 which came with five plastic 303 rounds that could be loaded into the magazine and would load into the breach and eject when the bolt was operated and the bolt would snap off after a week or two .

[@djlewis5149]

It had a ‘brother’ a Thompson sub-machine gun with a forward grip

[@gilgamecha]

Had one of these. Me and my brother had matching army jumpers with black epaulletes. Happy days. I think the barrel broke off ours in the end too.

[@Fishy1764]

Me and my brother had three of these over as many years we also had a Thomson Mechine gun. Little did i realize that years later i would be using the real thing in the British Army.lol!

[@historicmilitaria1944]

Reading the comments its surprising how many went on to use the real thing

[@Irishpewtuber]

That's a cool find. Amazing it stayed in 1 piece

[@historicmilitaria1944]

True,its not the best sort of plastic to be chucking about

[@Irishpewtuber]

@@historicmilitaria1944 I'm fortunate enough to own a live one.

[@ashleystyles6888]

Mine broke. The barrel. Oh well. I still have photos on my photo album of my first live armed guard during 1989. With my SLR in its rack. A wooden furniture 1950s issued rifle still going strong even then.

[@historicmilitaria1944]

Nice,thanks for sharing

[@rockyrowlands3652]

I also had one as a kid for Christmas….but mine was all black. The barrel was prone to snap off as mine did when I bayoneted my sister 😅 … true.

[@tonyrobinson362]

One was sold at a toy auction a few weeks ago for £620 Nearly as much as a complete Johnnie Seven gun, Good days gone forever.

[@Qwcgvv]

My Mum & Dad bought me one of these on a day out to blackpool back in the mid 70's. Mine was all black and i accidentally shot one of my mums plates off a welsh dresser which broke into several pieces when it hit the floor 😅

[@davidbrennan660]

I had two of them, there was a Thompson Machine Gun……I never had one of them.

[@historicmilitaria1944]

Thompson was not a great seller.....never seen one for sale,I'm guessing it had a short production run

[@garysmith4425]

I had the brown stock version it was my favorite toy gun.

[@tobermory8341]

Had the black version and the helmet plus some US-style grenades which fired paper caps - totally ready for action. Airfix realised the SLR barrel was a weak point and mine came in its cardboard box with a wooden rod in the barrel. When the barrel did break I carried on using the rifle anyway. Never bothered much with the bullets.

[@senseofthecommonman]

Had the black one and I can still remember falling down a flight of stairs and breaking the barrel clean off, I was totally gutted.

[@historicmilitaria1944]

Well,that's a new one!! Usually it's broken by over enthusiastic bayonet thrusting!!!

[@caminodantoo]

My friend up the road, used to have the later black version. Cowboys and Indians was never the same, again.

[@davefave4351]

My nan bought me the all black at a Wooolworths in Peckham, South London. I must admit, it didn't survive the rigours of battle for long...

[@sahhull]

Ive got a toy FN FAL from when I was a kid in the 1970's The wood and magazine is plastic but the action and barrel is metal. It even goes bang via rolls of caps. No its not for sale.

[@sicks6six]

mine was all black, got it from Woolworths for 10' (50p) bob I think and it came with a bendy bayonet that got lost quickly, the bullets were silver and the carry handle snapped off, I fitted a carry strap made from an army surplus haversack, in the 1960s they were stocked floor to ceiling with brand new unused gear as the 1970s came along the new stuff was harder to get worn but mended gear replaced it, I bought a brand new lined M65 parka for £10 they are now £350+ if you can find one,

[@ChrisfurrsMilitaria1941]

That is awesome CJ

[@historicmilitaria1944]

Thanks

[@robinlarge1630]

I remember a news item ,when I was a kid , a boy in Northern Ireland was shot by British security services when he pointed a toy rifle at some soldiers . Don't know if it was this one though 🤔

[@michaelamos4651]

Great video. Had the black one. As a kid so realistic. €3000 wow

[@Jones-xx2gc]

I used to have one of these when I was a kid, I loved it until I lost all the bullets. Someone selling 30 rounds of ammunition for nearly £90.00 on ebay, wow.

[@historicmilitaria1944]

True,imagine if the bullets are that price what the gun would be!!

[@patrickrose1221]

I always wanted one of those 303's, after seeing my pal's and how tough it was made.

[@historicmilitaria1944]

It certainly was a better construction,back in the 1970s the neighbours kid had one.....I've been trying for a long time to find an example with no luck...I'm guessing they weren't cheap.

[@patrickrose1221]

@@historicmilitaria1944 they used to be in my mams ' Kay' s ' catalogue in the sixties & seventies. The only time I had a go, was when everyone was allowed to bring a toy into school and one of the better off kids brought his in lol. Mind you, I did have a Johnny 7! 😆😅👍

[@Titus9508]

I think everyone in my squad broke off that fragile barrel... Great post!