(based on Plastic Soldier Review and Small Scale World Airfix figure listings)ġ960 Infantry Combat Group (British Infantry) replaced 1973ġ962 French Foreign Legion replaced 1970-72? Version 1 Airfix replaced by Version 2 Chronology A book well worth getting for the pictures of the figures and their packaging alone. The beautiful paperback Airfix’s Little Soldiers (2010) by Jean-Christophe Carbonel has a useful Year by Year chronology of Airfix HO/OO figures. Left version 1 Germans and strange egg box fortifications in Terry Wise, Introduction to Battle Gaming (1969/72) and right, Donald Featherstone War Games (1962). The version 1 Airfix figures are those used in Donald Featherstone’s WW2 game in his first book War Games 1962. In Plastic archaeology terms this was a short stretch of time from Guards Colour Party (1960) to WW1 figures (1966), as the Version 1 figures were replaced from 1972. This lovely gift was heavy on version 1 Afrika Korps but had an interesting early 1960s mix from the Guards Colour Party 1959/60 through to the First World War. An Airfix timeline 1960 to about 1966 along with RAF kit figures c. I find it interesting to see the mix and the range of paint schemes when buying the odd job lot of figures or seeing the OBEs on Hugh Walter’s Small Scale World. I little expected an A4 jiffybag to arrive a few days later full of unwanted 1960s version 1 Airfix figures. Chatting by email to Tony Adams of the Miniature Wood Screw Army blog, he mentioned passing on a few Airfix figures that he no longer needed.
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