Airfix Waterloo...

[Harry Faversham]

From the dawn of time!!! 

[Harry Faversham]

My Airfix project, started in 1969 is now close to completion!
I've been having a cogitate on yesteryear, wondering if anybody still plays with Airfix soldiers?
To be fair they're crap, weird poses, as accurate as a smoothbore musket and impossible to keep the paint on. But, here's the rub of it...
I once replaced my Airfix British Army with 15mm figures painted by that very nice man at Wargames Den. 15 Infantry battalions, 6 Cavalry regiments, 12 guns pus Generals and personalities. nearly ten years ago an investment of nearly three grand. The Army was magnificent, so magnificent I never used it once in battle in case of damage, the collection stood in a cabinet for a couple of years and was sold for about seven hundred quid!
Now my poxy Airfix legions are re-based and ready to fight for the next fifty years. I'd let anybody handle them, even wearing boxing gloves, as they're virtually indestructible. The KISS Principle is going to be applied with 'One Hour Wargames' rules, till Herself has gormed how to sort out traffic jams and get the right bods in the right place, at the right time with the firepower to get it done .
The wheel's come full circle, and I'm certain my Airfix Veterans will give us as much fun as some of their more aristocratic brethren.

[Cubs]

Have you PVA'd the bendy bits?

[Red Orc]

Very nice. I applaud your commitment to playing with your toys! Though it's great to look at nicely-painted models I'm a big fan of pushing some troops round a table. If we're not playing with them, what are they for?

I often wonder what became of my big box of Airfix Waterloo figures, at one time I had a good few hundred as well as some carts and whatnot, mostly unpainted of course... though I found all my Warhammer minis in my parents' loft I never worked out what happened to the Airfix stuff.

[Anderson Collection]

Someone got a real bargain if you sold that lot for £700 Harry

[Harry Faversham]

Someone got a real bargain if you sold that lot for £700 Harry

They were gobbled up by a big bad wolf.

 

[StoneMtnMinis]

You can't beat the old Airfix for wierdbut yet fun poses.  Really brings back the memories. 

[Harry Faversham]

"Wot's all them funny looking little men in yer cabinet Granddad?"

"That's wot wargaming looked like when Doctor Who was in black and white!"

[jambo1]

So much goodness in that cabinet, a feast for the eyes!

[Harry Faversham]

I don't know wot they'll do to the enemy, but they make me smile!"

[Harry Faversham]

Prussian Infantry lagging on the road to Plancenoit, 'Old Vorwärts' turns up to hurry them along, further down the column the artillery is in disarray!

[steders]

Fantastic stuff

[Harry Faversham]

Thank you Sir, most appreciated.
Me and our kid started the collection the year Airfix released the Highlanders. It grew through the seventies and then was packed away as we moved on to 'proper' wargaming models/figures. Every now and then they'd march to battle and then return to a dark lair in the bowels of the Emporium.
Now that we're into a second generation, who've most likely never seen an Airfix Warrior, let alone played with one, they're back...

To stay!!!