 20thmaine  | 02 May 2017 4:52 a.m. PST |
An excellent overview of all the Airfix Battlesets link (I had the Beach Assault and Waterloo sets!) |
| DColtman | 02 May 2017 6:25 a.m. PST |
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| korsun0 | 02 May 2017 6:38 a.m. PST |
Memories! I had the Assault set, Pontoon bridge assault set and waterloo. Sadly all I have now is the pontoon bridge and a pile of those green plastic tanks. That gun emplacement in the assault set could do cracking service now if I could find it. Actually, I wonder where those tanks are, I have an idea…:) |
| Texas Jack | 02 May 2017 8:06 a.m. PST |
Ah, that brought back a lot of memories of me whining because no one ever bought me any of them.  I did have the Aurora Anzio set though, guess my folks thought that was enough. The fools!  |
 ColCampbell | 02 May 2017 8:19 a.m. PST |
I still have the Sherwood Castle, Caesar's Gate, and Waterloo "farm house" (La Haye Sainte) buildings. The figures were sold long ago. Jim |
| Pauls Bods | 02 May 2017 8:23 a.m. PST |
I had the lot, Wild West Fort, Fort Sahara, Sherwood Castle, Caesar's Gate, all the assault sets but I didn´t see the Point of the Battlefront sets. |
| Marc at work | 02 May 2017 9:10 a.m. PST |
Try this one link Shows how good they can look – mine never did when being attacked by the Patton and M113… |
| Khusrau | 02 May 2017 11:09 a.m. PST |
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| 20thmaine | 02 May 2017 11:16 a.m. PST |
Shows how good they can look – mine never did when being attacked by the Patton and M113… Mine is not half as good as that. If that's 10 then mine is…..4.76. |
| bombersmoon | 02 May 2017 1:02 p.m. PST |
Brilliant. Unless I am mistaken I think the list is missing one item :-
Charge of the light Brigade battle set …I had one of these about 500 years ago !. I am sure that was an Airfix product. British cavalry, Russian artillery, and a battlefield. |
 David Manley | 02 May 2017 1:33 p.m. PST |
"when being attacked by the Patton and M113" Wasn't the APC based on an FV432 rather than an M113? |
| 20thmaine | 02 May 2017 3:59 p.m. PST |
Some features of both….
Probably nearer to the M113. Maybe. |
| Patrick R | 03 May 2017 1:46 a.m. PST |
Esci produced several sets as well, including a charge of the light brigade set. |
| Marc the plastics fan | 03 May 2017 7:40 a.m. PST |
LoL. Gotta love a discussion of Airfix polythene toys… Airfix never did Crimea. Not all plastic are Airfix. Just as not all slot cars are Scalextric |
| Pauls Bods | 03 May 2017 12:50 p.m. PST |
What this guy did with part of the Airfix Waterloo farmhouse!
link |
| Dagwood | 03 May 2017 1:09 p.m. PST |
Didn't Airfix do a set of Crimean Hussars, but nothing else ? |
| Marc the plastics fan | 03 May 2017 11:34 p.m. PST |
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| Patrick R | 04 May 2017 3:09 a.m. PST |
Here is an overview of the Esci battlesets. link |
| Jefthing | 07 May 2017 11:27 a.m. PST |
At risk of showing my age, I had Pontoon Bridge Assault set – purchased with Green Shield Stamps from the shop in Weybridge. I still have the bridge, complete with pontoons, and the sandbag emplacements. It's about 40 years old now. A couple of years later I won the Waterloo Assault Set in an Airfix Modellers Club competition. The club was run through the Battle comic and club president was Dick Emery! The only things I have left from that are the wagons. |
| 20thmaine | 07 May 2017 2:59 p.m. PST |
I won the Airfix Western Train Robbery set in a TV Times competition!
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| Marc the plastics fan | 08 May 2017 2:48 a.m. PST |
Oh that train set is brilliant. Reminds me of the triang military trainsets from the 60s. Happy memories But what is that scaffold that tiny cowboy is hanging from? It looks like a massive piece of civil engineering |
| Jefthing | 08 May 2017 8:29 a.m. PST |
Brilliant! I can remember a similar train robbery set in the TV Times – it was more modern and I'm sure it had British commandos in it – that coincided with the Just William series. I entered that but didn't win – the power of Dick Emery can only stretch so far…. They must have had a job lot as giveaways. |
| 20thmaine | 09 May 2017 4:59 a.m. PST |
But what is that scaffold that tiny cowboy is hanging from? It looks like a massive piece of civil engineering
There is a trapdoor in the roof of one of the carriages which lifts when it passes under the hanging by his fingertips man. He then gets scooped up and is able to rob the train! I loved the Triang military sets – there was a sniper carriage which worked in a similar way only the trigger in the tracks made the sniper pop up. We had an amazing Christmas a year or two after Hornby stopped making the Battlespace range – my parents must have got one of everything that was being cleared out in a cut-price offer in, I think, Hamleys! |
| 20thmaine | 09 May 2017 5:05 a.m. PST |
TV Times – it was more modern and I'm sure it had British commandos in it – that coincided with the Just William series. I entered that but didn't win Same competition! There was a choice of prizes – I went for the Cowboy train. |
| Jefthing | 09 May 2017 11:33 a.m. PST |
Ah, that explains it! No idea why I remember it so well – probably miffed I didn't win! Seems an odd connection, though: Just William and train robberies. Can't recall him having chums called Buster and Ronnie. |
| 20thmaine | 09 May 2017 3:43 p.m. PST |
The other set was Dr X
William and the outlaws often played at being Cowboys. Not so much the "James Bond" adventures of Dr X. |
| Jefthing | 10 May 2017 10:41 a.m. PST |
That's the one, complete with British commandos! One has to assume they were there to thwart the baddies and not disgruntled ex servicemen seeking to augment their pension. |
is back from Council of Five Nations.
