Airfix British infantry

[Paul]

Old figures but the poses are great...and they are true 20mm 


Close ups and the Invasion of Naria HERE

[Stu]

Nice paint job, you are planning on the new set also?

[Paul]

Nice paint job, you are planning on the new set also?

Thanks 
The new set will get painted as well and I´ll put both together for comparison. Also, the new set looks like it will give some chances for conversions  and hopefully will be a similar size to the old set and allow "cross converting"

[fastolfrus]

Have you tried the set before that one?

[Paul]

Have you tried the set before that one?

This lot? The odd looking Infantry combat group 
http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=53
I´ve got them, as well as all the other "first" issue sets
When I´ve painted all the sets listed on the main Airfix page at PSR I might consider the "No1" sets..but that may take a while.

[Captain Blood]

Old figures but the poses are great...

Really?

I remember these well, and yes, one or two of the poses are good. But some of them are surely shockingly weird?

The guy dancing with his rifle; the one touching the brim of his helmet (what's he supposed to be doing?); the one with his Bren gun muzzle down over his shoulder (nice figure but an essentially useless pose for a toy fighting man!). The firing poses just don't look natural either. On the whole, I think they're a pretty poor bunch. Maybe 3 or 4 'good' poses out of 15+?

Sorry to be disagreeable Paul - but I just don't think these were ever one of the good sets.
Better than the old 'infantry combat group', perhaps.
But thinking about how good many of the 2nd generation Airfix figures were, these were not (IMHO) very good at all... 

[Poiter50]

Generally I think Matchbox nailed it much better than Airfix.

[Paul]

Really?

I remember these well, and yes, one or two of the poses are good. But some of them are surely shockingly weird?

The guy dancing with his rifle; the one touching the brim of his helmet (what's he supposed to be doing?); the one with his Bren gun muzzle down over his shoulder (nice figure but an essentially useless pose for a toy fighting man!). The firing poses just don't look natural either. On the whole, I think they're a pretty poor bunch. Maybe 3 or 4 'good' poses out of 15+?

Sorry to be disagreeable Paul - but I just don't think these were ever one of the good sets.
Better than the old 'infantry combat group', perhaps.
But thinking about how good many of the 2nd generation Airfix figures were, these were not (IMHO) very good at all...  

Matter of opinion   which could, at the end of the day be extended to all sets and all scales..semantics, nothing more, nothing less.

[carlos marighela]

Airfix 8th Army and their Afrika Korp were the pick of the bunch for my money. The Matchbox German infantry were dire.