The Loose Association of Wargamers

My auntie Rose bought me my first Airfix figures when we visited the local Woolworths. US Cavalry and either the Confederate or the Union infantry. I don't remember the year, but on sale at the time were plastic Beatles wigs.......for kids, obviously.

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I'm not sure I ever got bought any Airfix 1/32 figures, the shops here never had them. I was given a box full by some lady I didnt know whose son was "too old for them" when I was very small and thats what I had all the way until adulthood in terms of Airfix. My soldiers were a mix of Britains, Timpo and some boxes of Matchbox that the local newsagent had during a brief period of stocking models and paints.

Never bothered with the 1/72 sets as by I was of the age to appreciate anything that scale there was Esci, which were far better. I tended to aquire them from the model shop in Scarborough.

My first Airfix figs week 1/32 Japanese . The newsagent round the corner used to break the boxes open and sell them individually

goat major wrote: ↑Sat Apr 04, 2020 11:12 pm My first Airfix figs week 1/32 Japanese . The newsagent round the corner used to break the boxes open and sell them individually

Bloody box splitters, he's probably on Ebay now.

Late ‘70’s, there was an official loose 1/32 figure sales format. You could buy figures from large perspex counter jars with Airfix labelling. It didn’t last long.
I remember buying figures this way from the newsies in Lossiemouth.

Around the same time as the expansion of Airfix 1/72 ranges in the 1960s, I discovered Britain's "Swoppets" Wars of the Roses figures. I had several foot figures, including a kneeling crossbowman and a guy in what looked like a white pullover who had a helmet with a hinged/moveable visor, armed with a polearm; there were a few more that I don't recall, but I loved swapping the heads around.

tim.w wrote: ↑Sat Apr 04, 2020 11:11 pm I was of the age to appreciate anything that scale there was Esci, which were far better. I tended to aquire them from the model shop in Scarborough.

I enjoy this post because it highlights how old everyone is but also because Esci did rock.

I am too old for Esci.

My first Wargames armies were ESCI as Airfix wasn’t commercially available in SA

I have fond memories of Atlantic, even though many of their offerings were piss-poor in hindsight.