Good friend Drew told me last Tuesday that he had found a 1/32 scale Airfix Bamboo House. I was unaware that he intended to gift it to me. The box arrived Thursday when a few of us came together for a game.

The Bamboo House was originally released in 1973, and is shown above. The photo above is taken from the 10th edition catalogue of 1973. There have been eight editions prior to this re-release which I think was in 2014.

I couldn’t wait to put it together.

As kits go it was a very basic “clip together” one that only took a few minutes to put together.

The above shows the very basic interior.

I chose to make the roof as a separate piece so that figures could easily be placed within it.

Not designed for removal it was a bit flimsy so I added some “quick and dirty” roof struts made out of the sprues. This worked a treat.

Not only that there was an unboxed set of Airfix 1/32 scale WW2 Japanese.

There was also an unboxed 1/32 scale WW2 Australians

Here they are based and undercoated.

The figures are well detailed for their age.

They fit in very well size wise with the British Airfix figures that I have recently painted.

A duel on the balcony!

I will be giving these a priority over planned project!