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Miniatures Adventure => Medieval Adventures => Topic started by: Harry Faversham on December 19, 2022, 02:06:31 PM

Title: Airfix from Yesteryear... again!
Post by: Harry Faversham on December 19, 2022, 02:06:31 PM: Remember getting this set in the early 60s for Crimbo!
Now it's King Richard the Lionfart's Castle!

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Title: Re: Airfix from Yesteryear... again!
Post by: Captain Harlock on December 19, 2022, 02:29:05 PM: Quote from: Harry Faversham on December 19, 2022, 02:06:31 PM
Now it's King Richard the Lionfart's Castle!

There must be some cool echo effects in the castle lol lol lol
Title: Re: Airfix from Yesteryear... again!
Post by: Michi on December 19, 2022, 02:36:27 PM: Quote from: Harry Faversham on December 19, 2022, 02:06:31 PM
Remember getting this set in the early 60s for Crimbo!
I've got it in the 70s, but it's long gone... Nicely done that one of yours!
Title: Re: Airfix from Yesteryear... again!
Post by: Harry Faversham on December 19, 2022, 03:35:12 PM: Thanks chaps!

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Title: Re: Airfix from Yesteryear... again!
Post by: dadlamassu on December 19, 2022, 05:24:17 PM: Nicely done! Glad it went to a good home.
Title: Re: Airfix from Yesteryear... again!
Post by: Harry Faversham on December 19, 2022, 05:46:02 PM: Cheers Daddio, Merry Crimbo!

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Title: Re: Airfix from Yesteryear... again!
Post by: Tim Haslam on December 19, 2022, 06:03:25 PM: Wow, simple times.
Title: Re: Airfix from Yesteryear... again!
Post by: The Dozing Dragon on December 20, 2022, 11:23:53 AM: That brought back some happy memories! Lovely job.
Title: Re: Airfix from Yesteryear... again!
Post by: jambo1 on December 20, 2022, 12:27:58 PM: Another cracking post Harry, I had this one as well, got it one Christmas and had it all set up ready for me and the old man to battle over, great stuff!! :)
Title: Re: Airfix from Yesteryear... again!
Post by: Harry Faversham on December 21, 2022, 08:00:53 AM: Thanks chaps. Got the pontoon Bridge to have a pop at next. So that'll be three la Haye Saintes, Fort Sahara, Fort Apache, and Sherwood Castle in the collection!
I well recall back in the early seventies, me and our kid writing to Airfix, to suggest making a Cowboy Town. Kind of copying the 1:32 range that Britain's and Timpo were then knocking out. Airfix would have aced them in HO:00, they never replied. Even today I still think it's an opportunity, proper missed by Airfix!

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Title: Re: Airfix from Yesteryear... again!
Post by: Cubs on December 21, 2022, 09:11:31 AM: That's brought a smile to my wizened face that has. What a beauty.
Title: Re: Airfix from Yesteryear... again!
Post by: Harry Faversham on December 21, 2022, 12:07:54 PM: That counts mate, coming from the Master himself!

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Title: Re: Airfix from Yesteryear... again!
Post by: Cubs on December 21, 2022, 01:36:38 PM: Quote from: Harry Faversham on December 21, 2022, 12:07:54 PM
That counts mate, coming from the Master himself!

:D

Only a master of evil!

I shy away from doing vehicles, dioramas and terrain because they never look how I want them to! If it hasn't got a face, I do struggle with it. I keep daydreaming about building La Haye Saint, a Celtic village or a Roman mile fort, but I never actually do it. Apart from anything else, I'd have nowhere to put them!
Title: Re: Airfix from Yesteryear... again!
Post by: Harry Faversham on July 03, 2023, 09:36:27 AM: La Haye Sainte!

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Title: Re: Airfix from Yesteryear... again!
Post by: has.been on July 03, 2023, 09:50:48 AM: Quote
Thanks chaps. Got the pontoon Bridge to have a pop at next. So that'll be three la Haye Saintes, Fort Sahara, Fort Apache, and Sherwood Castle in the collection!

Wot!!!! No Roman Mile castle???? lol lol lol
Title: Re: Airfix from Yesteryear... again!
Post by: Cubs on July 03, 2023, 11:10:34 AM: Ah, fond memories.
Title: Re: Airfix from Yesteryear... again!
Post by: FifteensAway on July 04, 2023, 07:32:21 AM: I have that Airfix castle - obtained late nineties - to be placed on our wedding cake! Wife loved castles, proposed at closest think we have to a castle near us, Vikingholm at Lake Tahoe.

Only recently did she let loose of that castle after having it first displayed on our mantle for many, many years and then in storage for quite a few years. Sheriff of Nottingham and Maid Marian painted up as a couple no less. :o. From the Robin Hood set, of course.

Maybe it will now make it into a game. Who knows?
Title: Re: Airfix from Yesteryear... again!
Post by: Bloggard on July 04, 2023, 10:16:12 AM: Quote from: Michi on December 19, 2022, 02:36:27 PM
I've got it in the 70s, but it's long gone...

indeed, same here.
lovely paint-job on it.
Title: Re: Airfix from Yesteryear... again!
Post by: AndrewBeasley on July 06, 2023, 12:43:09 AM: Are you aware of the bases / diorama bits that Amera have re-released http://www.amera.co.uk/product.php?range=a

They have lost a bit due to the vac-form process but its a chance to relive some classics...