Quote from: fsn on 22 February 2015, 10:10:59 PM
Still got mine. And the Beach Defence set.

No!!!   

I want one!!!     

Hi

Very first figures were Britains figures before they were banned for lead content. Then loads of Timpo, Hong Kong copies, etc. Airfix Combat group and Germans came next, as well as many others. Along the way I got some plastic flats from a comic book (quite daring then to order from America):-



My first metal wargame type figures were Lamming Scots Greys. Here is (I'm pretty sure anyway) a scan of the picture I saw in the Airfix magazine that fired my enthusiasm to ge t these figures:-



Interesting to read that the masters for Lamming figures were made from brass!!!  

I got these from Battlefield here in Australia, a case of write for the catalogue, read the catalogue, send an order with a postal note. No chance of a hasty impulse buy   Still have the catalogues stashed somewhere   .

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan ('Preview message' still not working)

Quote from: Leman on 22 February 2015, 05:23:00 PM
My first figures were a box of Union and Confederate infantry by Airfix, somewhere around 1965.

I was going to say possibly the same for me, Leman (but thinking it might have been British Infantry Combat Group and WW2 German Infantry instead - both Airfix). However do Brittains (and Timpo?) and other toy soldiers count, in which case I had the usual Guardsmen, Knights in Armour, Cowboys and Indians what before then?

Remember my uncle bought my brother and me some Airfix cowboys and Indians (yes, they were called that then); two boxes eeach, which was a big deal back then!  Happy days 

Quote from: fsn on 22 February 2015, 09:33:48 PM
With the Infantry Combat Group, first German Infantry, and four plastic vehicles including a Centurion.

Me too with the infantry, fsn (see my previous post) but not the box set illustrated. First Airfix tank was the Josef Stalin (so Pendraken's recent release of particular nostalgic interest) but couldn't get the tracks to turn (a common problem with subsequent Airfix purchases) so, when I acquired not one but two Dinky Centurion tanks with moving tracks, you can imagine my boundless joy!

Btw fsn, would you mind removing your hand?  ..... Thank you.

Grip, would these have been the High Chaparral Airfix set - if so, I seem to recall the Buck Cannon figure had a pistol in one hand and a bottle in the other?

Btw Grip, I've sent you the money. When will I get the negatives?

These?

Quote from: Fenton on 22 February 2015, 10:52:00 PM
These?

Wow, that brings back some memories 

Quote from: Westmarcher on 22 February 2015, 10:49:07 PM

Grip, would these have been the High Chaparral Airfix set - if so, I seem to recall the Buck Cannon figure had a pistol in one hand and a bottle in the other?

Btw Grip, I've sent you the money. When will I get the negatives?

Think it was and, in the 70's it was okay to give small children miniatures with guns and bottles 

The negatives are backed up and also with my lawyer.

Anyone remember what a box of the Airfix soldiers cost ?
I've got in my mind they were 'Two Bob' (10p) back in the late 50s/early 60s.....I'm sure groats had been phased out by then. 
Cheers - Phil

Quote from: Techno on 22 February 2015, 11:04:18 PM
Anyone remember what a box of the Airfix soldiers cost ?
I've got in my mind they were 'Two Bob' (10p) back in the late 50s/early 60s.....I'm sure groats had been phased out by then. 
Cheers - Phil

Mid 70's they were about 60p a box I think 

I have memories of maybe 20p in the early 70's

Quote from: getagrip on 22 February 2015, 10:40:22 PM
Remember my uncle bought my brother and me some Airfix cowboys and Indians (yes, they were called that then); two boxes eeach, which was a big deal back then!  Happy days 

Mine were US marines and plains Americans. With two matchstick-shooting 25pdrs. We shall not look upon the like of such games again, thank God.

I wasn't aware five minutes ago that plastic flats had ever existed.

Must've bought the catalogue of Airfix figs back in the day when Woolies was alive and LSD was the currency of choice.  After the hoover-fodder days many, many years passed until the next fig which was Airfix again but this time a 54mm kit:



Just recently dug up by archaeologists in my garage along with several of his comrades.

Quote from: Fenton on 22 February 2015, 10:52:00 PM
These?

Hi

I had the original cowboy set in dark brown. Here is a whole article on the High Chaparral set :-

http://airfixfigs.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/s38-wild-west-madia-related-high.html

(Fort Apache looks good doesn't it!  )

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan