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[Heedless Horseman]

LOL!!! for those who remember 'Comics' back the 60s /70s... with the little adverts for glasses WHICH COULD SEE THROUGH CLOTHES!
Fb ad has offered me a 2021 version!  Some things do not change! 

Just as well that WE do!  (Wonder if they work... LOL!)   

Disclaimer: Totally Immoral, offensive and disgusting, I would never condone such products. Posting is for humorous entertainment only. Risk of serious Slapping possible.

No...the ad will not copy and paste!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Gota find a pair 

[fsn]

But do you remember these?


Pendraken try and sell me a modern equivalent every time I log on ... which is every day. Several times a day.

It's a wonder I have the strength to resist. 

[goat major]

Those adverts were so inspirational, I always regretted not Leningrad able to get them in the UK. Having seen the figures now I,d only have been quite disappointed though ! Howard Whitehouse has built some nice armies of the AWI figures

[Westmarcher]

Great find, Nobby. Ah, the nostalgia. I'd almost forgotten these. But now that these are before me again, this is exactly how I remember them (the shape of the Roman helmets, the Revolutionary War battle scene, etc.) probably because I used to stare at them so longingly. It was only in later years that I discovered they were flats.

Now, years later, I'm wondering why that speeding chariot is careering headlong into that city wall and if that the cannon in the AWI scene is breaking the rule on overhead fire .....      

For Mrs Westie, her memory and something she always wanted was some little monkey like creature in a cup ...

[Techno II]

Great find, Nobby. Ah, the nostalgia.

Davey....If you're into nostalgia....Try and catch "The Harpoon"...the next time radio 4, or 4 extra broadcast it.

It's a 'radio version' p*sstake of the comics from days of yore......And somehow it works.

Cheers - Phil 

[fred.]

I don't remember those ads, perhaps not quite old enough, but they look great. But having googled what the figures actually look like, they look mightily disappointing in the plastic 

I'm glad my first figures were Britain's and Airfix 1/32nd plastics.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I'll second Phil's recomendation - "The Harpoon" is excellent. So is "Beachcomber by the way"

[Ithoriel]

I had a set of 1/72 "Greeks & Trojans" which were clearly 1/72 knock-offs of the Britains Herald 1/32 ones (see below). It included several chariots. The cardboard topper on the plastic bag they came in showed one of the chariots charging the walls of what was presumably meant to be Troy despite looking decidedly medieval. Clearly charging fortifications with chariots is a viable tactic

[Techno II]

I'll second Phil's recomendation - "The Harpoon" is excellent. So is "Beachcomber by the way"

I've never come across Beachcomber, Ian.....Is that another 4/4 extra offering ?

Have to say, my "falling asleep offerings, from Auntie, while the radio's on", have been a little less than inspiring recently.

Cheers - Phil.

[goat major]

These are Howard's painted figures - he's done a pretty good job with the figures which ,, err,,, leave a little to be desired...

[Techno II]

Why's the cannon only got one wheel ?

Cheers - Phil.

[fsn]

For Mrs Westie, her memory and something she always wanted was some little monkey like creature in a cup ...

These?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I've never come across Beachcomber, Ian.....Is that another 4/4 extra offering ?

Have to say, my "falling asleep offerings, from Auntie, while the radio's on", have been a little less than inspiring recently.

Cheers - Phil.

Yes - its running at 09:30 on WEd and 08:30 Sat on 4Extra

[Techno II]

I'll have a listen on 'Sounds', chum.

Earphones on standby for tonight.

Cheers - Phil