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Offline warlord frod

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #15 on: 28 October 2019, 02:11:04 AM »
YES! That is a wonderful trip down memory lane. My first armies were US Civil War AirFix and I still have them and am planning to use them in a game later this year.

Scrubber

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #16 on: 28 October 2019, 02:38:34 AM »
We had ACW union painted as Prussians otherwise the British napoleonic were all Scots highlanders as they had not released British line infantry yet.

Offline grambo589

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #17 on: 28 October 2019, 10:14:58 AM »
Nothing wrong with Old School, brings back a lot of memories for me too. 1972, I saw my first ever painted Napoleonic Airfix figures at school, there was actually a school wargame club run by a teacher! That was it, hooked for life :) Great pictures. Should add that when I joined SELWG around that time it was Airfix Romans and Britons to WRG on a snooker table upstairs that caught my attention.

Young wargamers today eh, they don't know how lucky they are!

Lee.

Offline SteveBurt

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #18 on: 28 October 2019, 03:02:23 PM »
Lovely stuff. I sold off all my old Airfix Napoleonics and Ancients a while back. The paint stayed on if you put a good layer of polyurethane over the top. Later I also found that artists' acrylic makes a great undercoat as it stays flexible. Keeping riders on horses was OK, but keeping horses attached to bases was always a challenge. Sadly many of them succumbed not to flaking paint but to the plasticiser not working any more and they went all brittle and snapped off at ankles, shoulders and almost anywhere else.

Offline Steam Flunky

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #19 on: 28 October 2019, 05:39:41 PM »
Great to see the old photos. Thanks for posting
laf medals by Robert  (steam flunky), auf Flickrhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/torq42/sets/

Andrew_McGuire

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #20 on: 28 October 2019, 05:50:38 PM »
I love Old School.  It’s the one I attended.   ;)

Me too. Pity I was expelled.

Offline vtsaogames

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #21 on: 28 October 2019, 07:36:45 PM »
Sadly many of them succumbed not to flaking paint but to the plasticiser not working any more and they went all brittle and snapped off at ankles, shoulders and almost anywhere else.

I had some Romans that started falling apart - and the paint flaked too.
And the glorious general led the advance
With a glorious swish of his sword and his lance
And a glorious clank of his tin-plated pants. - Dr. Seuss


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Offline DintheDin

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #22 on: 28 October 2019, 07:49:18 PM »
Just for the sake of good old memories, here are my RHA and AWI transformed to SYW Austrian Artillery
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. – Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

Offline Cubs

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #23 on: 28 October 2019, 08:43:27 PM »
Ah, the old Washington's Army figs, so cool. I think HaT are bringing out SYW things in the near future.
'Sir John ejaculated explosively, sitting up in his chair.' ... 'The Black Gang'.

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Offline has.been

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #24 on: 29 October 2019, 07:21:45 AM »
The Washington's Army pack came out while I was still at school (many.many years ago)
at about the same time WRG brought out their Horse & Musket set of rules. The figure
scale changed from their usual 1 fig. = 20 men, to 1 fig. = 50 men. A school friend,
my first wargaming buddy (Steve O'Leary if you are out there still) worked out you could
represent the entire (regular) army of the (newly formed) USA with just one packet!

Offline Harry Faversham

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #25 on: 29 October 2019, 08:40:59 PM »
One of the last, and best, Napoleonic sets Airfix brought out was (1975?) the Old Guard. But for many a year we'd all ready got 'em, courtesy of the AWI British Grenadiers...





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Offline miltiades

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #26 on: 30 October 2019, 08:50:32 AM »
All this proves one thing to me: wargaming is in our DNA. Even if there were no tiny soldiers at all, we would invent them out of nothing!

Offline Harry Faversham

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #27 on: 30 October 2019, 04:13:23 PM »
It's true is that. I recall reading in one of Donald Feathersone's first books. How he spent a month or so painting up his Franco-Prussian (converted from ACW figures using nail varnish coated plasticine!) Armies while watching the Olympics on TV!

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Andrew_McGuire

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #28 on: 30 October 2019, 05:15:02 PM »
Ah yes, the Mexico City Olympics in 1968. But I think the figures were 1859 Austrians. At least in my memory they were.

Offline has.been

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #29 on: 30 October 2019, 07:08:20 PM »
B.M.   Before (I could afford) Metal. I wanted a unit of the, then, new
WRG unit type...SUPER HEAVY CAVALRY!!!!!
A weekend of gluing rolled out Plasticine onto AirFix horses, embossing
scales all over them & setting it with Banana Oil, saw me field my first
Palmyran regiment.
God they were sh**e, but I loved them, even when the riders were looking
up the noses of a Hinchcliffe light cavalry horse. It didn't help that my opponent
based his troops on quarter inch thick hardboard, while mine followed the god
Barker's instruction & were on top of best quality beer mats (obtained by my
lovely Dad).

 

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