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Offline Harry Faversham

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #45 on: 15 November 2019, 09:10:43 AM »
"Wellington's centre is broken. Inform the Emperor it is time to send in his Old Guard!"

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Offline Harry Faversham

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #46 on: 15 November 2019, 09:26:29 AM »
“Gordon, I desire the Highland Brigade advance to the crest.”

“As you wish Sir Thomas. Piper Major… Scotland For Ever!”





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Offline DintheDin

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #47 on: 15 November 2019, 10:14:14 AM »
Excellent conversions, still enduring the test of time!  :-*
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Offline Harry Faversham

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #48 on: 15 November 2019, 12:24:10 PM »
Wish I could convert figures that well Din. The senior Occifers are white metal figures, Gordon's had a head transplant though!

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Offline DintheDin

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #49 on: 15 November 2019, 05:59:15 PM »
Got it!
Sorry for the poor quality of the picture:
Years before. Volley and Bayonet. Brienne.
Airfix soldiers from French line and Artillery and one converted Napoleon, dressed with a stucco coat  :)

P.S. The empty space on the base is for a small base of skirmishers to sit.
« Last Edit: 15 November 2019, 06:01:03 PM by DintheDin »
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Offline Harry Faversham

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #50 on: 15 November 2019, 07:21:32 PM »
Love it!
Hard to imagine innit, a whole generation of wargamers have grown up, not knowing wot an Airfix Sowjer, even looks like!!!???

:'(
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Offline DintheDin

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #51 on: 15 November 2019, 07:32:08 PM »
Airfix French Line Infantry fighting ESCI lancers painted as Russians.
A great part of my army was ESCI... And of my colleagues as well.
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Offline DintheDin

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #52 on: 15 November 2019, 07:42:21 PM »
Ligny (VnB, played on the 13th of June, 2015)
One can see in the middle the famous French marching soldier found in the Airfix French Line Artillery box.
Here they are painted like Prussians.
Given that there are several more on the table, not shown,  imagine how many artillery boxes had been bought  :D
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Andrew_McGuire

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #53 on: 16 November 2019, 03:39:34 PM »
I'm sure your grand battery was impressive - mine had only nine pieces - but no amount of 4-pdrs equals the psychological and material effect of the emperor's belles filles. One of the drawbacks of old school, perhaps.
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Offline Harry Faversham

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #54 on: 22 February 2022, 10:36:11 AM »
Sergeant Thomas Atkins, the 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot, at the Battle of Waterloo...

:)
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Offline Golgotha

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #55 on: 22 February 2022, 11:16:06 AM »
Absolutely love this but then 1/72 is my preferred scale of play, especially for Napoleonic period. Good to see so many Airfix and similar coming out of the woodwork.
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Offline Harry Faversham

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #56 on: 22 February 2022, 02:44:08 PM »
G, all my collection is Airfix. Over the years I've been tempted to bin 'em and get 'proper' Napoleonic figures. Not doing that's one of the few things I've got right!







 :-*
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Offline DintheDin

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #57 on: 22 February 2022, 02:46:39 PM »
Lovely Old School!
Keep calm and keep Airfix!
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Offline nickdives

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #58 on: 22 February 2022, 03:11:07 PM »
Lovely to see good old Airfix chaps in use today!
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Offline CapnJim

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Re: "You want the Old Skool!"
« Reply #59 on: 22 February 2022, 06:32:17 PM »
Quote from: nickdives on 22 February 2022, 03:11:07 PM
Lovely to see good old Airfix chaps in use today!

Yep - it is!  Well done there, Master Haversham!  I have some of the Airfix chaps in both my 20mm/1:72 AWI and War of 1812 forces.
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