Very old school N gauge scale AFV/figures

[Harry von Fleischmann]

Just wondering if this rings any bells. In about 1975/6, my parents were looking at N gauge trains and in a model train shop in Hereford (not the one that’s there now), I found N gauge versions of Airfix 1/72 Germans along with some AFVs. I bought the figures, now long gone. Any ideas as to who made them? The shop also carried coastal naval stuff that I later found being sold by Skytrex….so was this an early range by them or what?

Cheers and thanks

[fred]

Before my time, but there was (is?) a Skytrex 1/200th scale range, so a little smaller than N Guage but not far from it.

Do you mean the figures were copies of the Airfix poses, and if so in metal or plastic?

[Harry von Fleischmann]

Yup, about 8-10 of them, plastic, with small bases to stick them on. As I recall, they included the officer with hands behind his back from the WW1 box, the later DAK figures firing MP40 and advancing with rifle and some of the figures from the original airfix ww2 German box. It was an odd mix and they were pretty good copies of the originals, certainly inspired by them.