Favourite Airfix Figures

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goat major wrote: Mon Apr 06, 2020 2:47 pm so it was probably the 92/93 team and you are both correct then
What a diplomat :) 92-93 Season...'93 cup finals :evilgrin:
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Looking back on these posts I think we all had much the same experience and happy memories. The only bad one was the horses on separate bases - why did they do that?

I've been looking at plasticsoldierreview website in a fit of nostalgia - but why do I keep on seeing Burt Lancaster on some of the boxes?
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Good point. Lancaster or Wayne.
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Perusing the box art for guest appearances by Hollywood stars, I was struck by the tableau depicted on the 8th army box.

Squaddy in the bottom right corner has clearly just Tommy-gunned a baled-out panzer crew.
Front and centre, a visibly irritated corporal interposes himself between trigger-happy Jenkins and the surrendering survivors.

It’s a bit hardcore.
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Shooting huns is part of the game. They say they had their hands up, but hey you know how they lie.
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Squaddy in the bottom right corner has clearly just Tommy-gunned a baled-out panzer crew.
Maybe the tankie said something "Tommy, Tommy your wife is in bed with a yank"
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And the squaddy got upset because he knew it was true?
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
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You’ve got me casting the roles of Airfix figures now.
I’m seeing Nigel Greene leading the Guards band - a young Roger Moore as the bobby on the civilians set - James Mason as the Afrika Korps officer - and Gregory Peck as a US marine.
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Paul Hogan as the Aussie smg gunner. Mads Mikelsson as the Gerry offier (yes I know he's Danish but he'd play the part well) Larry Greyson as the German smg gunner "Shut that panzer door.."
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Roger Delgado as the Sheriff of Nottingham - Kirk Douglas manning a Russian maxim - and the confederate officer looks like Bill McKinney, the villain from ‘Josey Wales’.
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