Thanks, chaps!
Ha! Ha! It was the old Airfix Napoleonics that got me started again. I spent much of the 80's out of work, and busted a box of Frenchies out to kill the boredom. A friend liked them and asked if I could do some wargaming figures for him and it snowballed from there. At one stage I was making a meagre living out of it. Nowadays, I just please myself and paint for my own gratification. Anyway, on with the show (if mods want to move the modelling/painting stuff elsewhere, I'll quite understand)...
Every now and again, I enjoy revisiting my childhood with aircraft kits - well, you can never have too many Spitfires can you? Here's a fly past of Airfix 1/72 Spits.
They've come a long way since the old, lumpy rivetted approximations with jelly baby pilots, although sometimes I'll break one out and go on a proper nostalgia trip. For me, at least, they retain a certain charm (the old Airfix Yak 9 recently turned out as fairly presentable with minimal effort and some decals left over from a far more modern kit - a nice 'do in a day' project, if you've got a very sharp knife, although rivet-counters and skin-purists might want to look away now).
But, as mentioned, I love trying to bring figures to life - as a general rule, the older my eyes get, the bigger the scale.
These are 120mm, the infantry officer in summer dress is a Trumpeter plastic kit, if anybody fancies a comparitively cheap way of finding out if they'd like to give this madness a go. I'd planned on building up a collection of Romans, Saxons and Vikings, 'Big Norm' was an expensive milestone birthday present for myself, the Viking was a much more reasonably priced companion piece, and I've got a part-assembled Saxon warrior somewhere. The Soviet naval infantryman turned up at a knock-down price, the Red Army soon followed in his wake and took over...
I've also got an unfathomable thing for 25mm fantasy sorceresses and Joan of Arc-ish figures. I'll leave them for another day.
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