Standard of wargame figure painting 50 years ago

Started by Sunray, 01 June 2020, 11:00:56 AM

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mmcv

Quote from: Ithoriel on 02 June 2020, 05:34:36 PM
It's the Two Bob emoji ... doesn't your phone have that one? :-)

What's The Two Bob? A old comedy duo?

Yours,

Gen Y/Pesky Millennial

Sunray

Quote from: mmcv on 02 June 2020, 06:26:30 PM
What's The Two Bob? A old comedy duo?

Yours,

Gen Y/Pesky Millennial

Bob was slang for one shilling (5p). Funny enough it was never spoken in the plural.  10 shillings was 10 bob, On price tickets 10/=
The 10 Bob note was our smallest Bank of England paper currency.  It was retained in the Isle of Mann for many years.

jimduncanuk

Here's a very old story (true). It will show a bit about inflation.

When I first started work (just out of school) there was a stag party for one of the guys. I went to it and the kitty was 10 Bob.

I got hauled into the bosses office the following Monday morning asking if I was in the pub last Friday. Yes I said ( I knew I had been drunk but didn't think I had done anything wrong). Did you forget anything he said, no I said, here's your change from the kitty - 2 Bob.

Can anyone guess what year that was?

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Techno

Late mid sixties ?   1968 ? :-\

Cheers - Phil.

fsn

Sorry? Change from a kitty? At a stag do?

Definitely not a rugby club involved.

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Quote from: fsn on 03 June 2020, 04:23:12 PM
Sorry? Change from a kitty? At a stag do?

Definitely not a rugby club involved.

Nor any Miner's Club stag do I attended in the early 70's
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Sunray

Quote from: jimduncanuk on 03 June 2020, 04:04:12 PM
Here's a very old story (true). It will show a bit about inflation.

When I first started work (just out of school) there was a stag party for one of the guys. I went to it and the kitty was 10 Bob.

I got hauled into the bosses office the following Monday morning asking if I was in the pub last Friday. Yes I said ( I knew I had been drunk but didn't think I had done anything wrong). Did you forget anything he said, no I said, here's your change from the kitty - 2 Bob.

Can anyone guess what year that was?


How many drinkers in the stag party?  In 1966 a pint of bitter was around 1/10d (12d in 1s)
In 1959/60 it was on average  One pint for a bob.  8 shillings = 8 pints.
Mild beer was around 8d a pint.  Beer tended to be cheaper in areas of mining or heavy industry.

Techno

Quote from: Last Hussar on 03 June 2020, 05:42:06 PM
1932?

Oooooh !.....That's so mean..... ;D ;D ;D.

If Jim was in the hostelry at one day old...and had started his first job, at the same time..........

Cheers - Phil ;)

grahambeyrout

Not forgetting there was a whole culture of conversions. Cut a figure at the waist with a razor blade, (no craft knives in those days) , stick his top on a cavalrymans's bottom. Use drawing pins for shields, needles for lances. How to do articles in Airfix Magazine. I miss the innocence of it all sometimes.

jimduncanuk

Quote from: Techno on 03 June 2020, 04:17:56 PM
Late mid sixties ?   1968 ? :-

Cheers - Phil.

Best answer!

It would have to have been between June 1968 and January 1969. Can't see it being at XMAS as who ever gets married at XMAS.

It was in the upstairs room of the Buccleuch Arms, quite a big room, certainly as large as the public bar and lounge bar downstairs.

It was demolished recently to make way for even more student accommodation.
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Steve J

QuoteNot forgetting there was a whole culture of conversions. Cut a figure at the waist with a razor blade, (no craft knives in those days) , stick his top on a cavalrymans's bottom. Use drawing pins for shields, needles for lances. How to do articles in Airfix Magazine. I miss the innocence of it all sometimes.

I loved those articles in the magazine and have many fond memories of one day hoping to be able to do the conversions as shown. Sadly I never was able to get around to any of them, other than our own home grown hapless attempts.

Scorpio_Rocks

Quote from: grahambeyrout on 04 June 2020, 09:46:59 AMUse drawing pins for shields, needles for lances. How to do articles in Airfix Magazine. I miss the innocence of it all sometimes.

I remember drawing pin shields, and a painful "pike block" injury from needle spears...
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Raider4

Quote from: jimduncanuk on 04 June 2020, 10:35:38 AM
It would have to have been between June 1968 and January 1969. Can't see it being at XMAS as who ever gets married at XMAS.

My parents got married 21st December. A colleague at work has his anniversary on the 22nd.

Sunray

Quote from: grahambeyrout on 04 June 2020, 09:46:59 AM
Not forgetting there was a whole culture of conversions. Cut a figure at the waist with a razor blade, (no craft knives in those days) , stick his top on a cavalrymans's bottom. Use drawing pins for shields, needles for lances. How to do articles in Airfix Magazine. I miss the innocence of it all sometimes.


I ended up (circa 1968) with an Airfix  "Japanese " army.   Not popular, but some really good sculpts for the mid 1960s.   I used WW1 British for HMG and mortars, ROCO T34 tanks, German A/Cs, 105 howitzers,  Airfix 6pds.  The Minitanks range was light on early WW2 models.
And yes, the figures running with rifle aloft were converted to cavalry.  I used US Cavalry - gluing the horses to bases was a challenge. 


John Cook

Quote from: grahambeyrout on 04 June 2020, 09:46:59 AM
Not forgetting there was a whole culture of conversions. Cut a figure at the waist with a razor blade, (no craft knives in those days) , stick his top on a cavalrymans's bottom. Use drawing pins for shields, needles for lances. How to do articles in Airfix Magazine. I miss the innocence of it all sometimes.


In my loft there are about 15 years worth of Airfix magazines starting in the early 1960s.  When I'm up there I often get side tracked and have a look at them.  I haven't got the heart to chuck them out. 

jimduncanuk

Quote from: Raider4 on 04 June 2020, 12:17:40 PM
My parents got married 21st December. A colleague at work has his anniversary on the 22nd.

I stand corrected.
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Steve J

QuoteI haven't got the heart to chuck them out. 

I wish I'd kept my Dad's copies from the late '60's and early '70's as they had some great info and are full of nostalgia. They are available on Ebay but often at silly prices.

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