Showing posts with label Airfix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Airfix. Show all posts

Monday, 25 April 2022

What to do with all those old Airfix figures?

Due to some construction in the garage where I keep a lot of my wargaming hoard, I had to clean up the garage ad move many of the stash to a different place. I took the opportunity to do some culling, but one thing remains on my mind: what to do with old Airfix figures?

I still have a fair amount of them (not only Airfix, but ESCI, Revell etc as well), some of which still on sprues, which we used in our old wargaming days. They haven't seen action for at least 15 years or so, all replace by fancier models.

The classic answer would be to donate them, bring them to the local charity shop, etc. But then again, who would be interested in that old stuff? Chances are they simply will be transferred from wargamer to wargamer over the years, always forgotten and never used. So, wouldn't it be better to throw them into the garbage bin right away?

Sunday, 5 September 2021

Monday, 22 June 2015

Waterloo in plastic

With all the current attention for Waterloo, I couldn't resist bringing out my old plastic 20mm Napoleonics again. Of course, the ubiquitous Airfix set of the La Haye Sainte farm is present as well. These figures are single color spray painted (not my current standards!), and were ones of the first I used for historical wargaming many many years ago.

I took some liberties in interpreting the battlefield, but those who are familiar with the battle, will recognize the main idea ;-)

Overall view
La Haye Sainte farm
The French infantry assault
The French cavalry charge
The British cavalry charge
Another overall view
The British squares
Top view
Another top view