I never liked the airfix figures and fell out with them completely after spending hours helping a mate paint naps and then saw half the paint flake off in the first game... maybe we should have used banana oil?

Mind you I did have loads of the plastic kits, aircraft hanging from the ceiling etc. but my pride and joy was the Saturn V rocket, a great model.

Quote2 commandos carrying canoe over their heads.

Why?

"Right lads, Smudger you rush up to the gun emplacement the krauts can't get to clip together properly, Ginger, you use the scaling ladder to get at the MG nest, Chalky, you and dusty wander around with a kayak"

   

Quote from: alnewhaven on 25 April 2011, 03:58:35 PM
That reminded me, they werea teal pain to paint ....or to get the paint to stay on!! 

I have at times painted with a matchstick, but never with a duck. I salute your initiative, Sir!

Quote from: FierceKitty on 02 May 2011, 01:55:08 PM
I have at times painted with a matchstick, but never with a duck. I salute your initiative, Sir!

Maybe that's where I went wrong. Should have used a matchstick

The blogs and images of plastic Airfix brought back a few memories.   I believe there were two distinct Airfix styles/scales.  In the early 1960s the 2/= (two shilling) box was styled H0 &00 and clearly meant to compliment the railway kits.  Early soldiers - Guards Band, Colour Party, Civilians,  Eight Army, Russians,
early Germans and ..the Infantry Combat Group (1960s British in 58 web and SLRs) were close to 1/87- indeed it was a book by Charles Grant using
Airfix Russians/Germans and Roco T34s etc that got me into serious gaming.

Later releases began to get bigger as the scale perhaps matched the 1/76 being used in the AFV model kits.  Some as you say - US Marines etc- had two scales in one box!

Whatever the faults, and some rubbish poses they were cheap and cheerful and got us started.

Thanks for the memories

Sunray Out