"Those Odd Figures" Topic
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| Tango01 | 22 Nov 2016 1:04 p.m. PST |
"Back in the day when I were a lad and we had gaslights in the street and so on the appearance of a new Airfix box of figures was an event and you bought them regardless of whether you had an interest in the period. As you twisted them off the sprues, rubbing down the resulting plastic knob on the base on your Mum's coffee table, you always had a pile of figures you weren't really sure what you were going to do with them. Some had their rifles the wrong way round or they didn't have weapons at all or they were in daft poses. Still they went in the box and got played with anyway, falling by the wayside as wargaming got more serious and the figures had to be based in units. The predilection for designers to produce odd figures hasn't gone away. Hat are pretty good in this respect and everything is normally usable, so it isn't a problem I have most of the time. Zvezda are only occasional transgressors as well…"
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Trebian  | 23 Nov 2016 2:45 a.m. PST |
Utter Drivel? Well I thought it was making a good point…. |
| goragrad | 23 Nov 2016 3:06 p.m. PST |
Indeed, odd choice of boards for an interesting post. |
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worries about not losing his rules stuff.
