"Our earliest photos of our models?" Topic

Chance finding…….photos of my Airfix figures from mid 1970s. Now this was my first SLR, 35mm film and no tripods in those days.

LHS was made out of a chocolate box base, the roof of the farmhouse was a hinged wooden lid for a cigar box. I can even see an Eclaireur! Heads were swapped, French heads onto British for overalls, same heads onto Poilus for overcoats, onto hussars for Uxbridge.

Then came the 1/32 figures…I had forgotten my model of the North Gate.

Alas the colour pictures were printed onto textured paper so, scanned, they are even worse than the prints I have to hand.
Still does anyone else have pics, however poor from decades back? Could be a great nostalgia trip

several more saved here;
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Wow,that last one here looks like it could have been a "real" turn of the century tinted photograph.

Well strictly it was turn of the Century…indeed, Turn of the Millennium …. it was about 19974-6.

Boney is a British AWI Grenadier officer as I recall. The Eclaireur and general are Airfix ACW conversions.

The French, in white overalls, are British with transplanted heads.

The originals are bad, but not quite as bad as what the scanner has done. Digitising is not so easy…not with textured print paper!

Somewhere…..I have photos of my earliest days, late teens/twenties with 6mm Heroics and Ross Napoleonics, and GHQ micro armour.

Show them…flares, loons, Zapata moustaches and all…..

I have one of me from 1972 in a West Ham shirt……

few changes since then….

I then grew a beard to aid in gender identification!

Excellent! :)

youtu.be/f8Y2ZflC7hg

Here's some really old pictures circa 1978. I was experimenting with trying to simulate night warfare with orcs, etc.

Excellent use of Brits as French with the headswaps. Of course, I have to ask -Why? I was too busy using French as,well, French to bother swapping Brits into them

I never did headswap at that age (my first naps must have been when I was around 8 or 9 in 1973/4, and by 12/13 i was into Minifigs.

Of course, that was before the explosion in plastic 1/72 figures. I would nver have turned to metal with the ranges that have been available over the past twenty years. When I turned back to 1/72 was the start of my most productive wargaming years. Next game I will post some pics.

Currently basing another 20 photocopy boxes worth of Naps. Each box has 4+ Infantry units in it (32-36 figure units) or 2-3 cavalry units (24 figs each) so there is a lot of figures on the way…

I love the pics above…..so 70s……..

The head swap? I hated the long gaiters on the French. Totally wrong for 1815, overalls needed…..therefore head swap!

Follow the link above and see the Scots Grey in B&W. He is charging at WWI Poilus with 1815 heads stuck on!

You had me for a while. The detail on some of those was incredible for 1/72 Airfix. Until I realised they were their 54mm figures.

As you said, Nostalgia – argh, it ain't what it used to be. Simpler times

54mm? Naw mate, 6mm……6mm…….just to impress

I have, somewhere, pictures of my Airfix figures from the 60's taken with a Polaroid camera which was an 'instant' camera.

link

My dad left his SX-70 on the tube once visiting London. This was during the time of resurgent IRA activity, and the train was held while he was forced to retrieve it to prove it was not a bomb!

He wandered for weeks looking like a bum, only he had £10,000.00 GBP in his coat for buying sports cars to ship back to the US. I got some great Corgi figures and F1 diecast models from those trips!