Tango01  | 06 Sep 2025 4:23 p.m. PST |
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| William Warner | 06 Sep 2025 5:05 p.m. PST |
I still have a few of those in my memory box. I painted my set and modified some of them with an Xacto knife and some green putty, creating light infantry helmets and grenadier bearskins. Great fun! |
| Perris0707 | 06 Sep 2025 5:52 p.m. PST |
I always wanted to get them, but for some reason I never did. Seems like a pretty good deal now… |
| OSCS74 | 06 Sep 2025 5:55 p.m. PST |
$1.98 USD was a lot of money for me back in 1972. |
| HMS Exeter | 06 Sep 2025 6:25 p.m. PST |
I think I ordered these 3 times. They came once. Merciful heaven they were awful. Brittle, hard plastic flats. They were, however, superior to the X-Ray glasses. |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 06 Sep 2025 6:46 p.m. PST |
I remember them from 1972, but $1.98 USD was likewise for me a lot of money then. I did order them many years later, when I had an actual job. They did not impress. |
| Tgerritsen | 06 Sep 2025 7:06 p.m. PST |
I was 4 then, but I wanted them very badly. My father refused the then princely sum of $2 USD (that we didn't really have to spare) on the grounds that they were junk toys and I'd be very disappointed. I saw them years later and decided he was correct. He was just as correct years later when I saved enough money and cereal box tops to send away for a Battlestar Galactica toy viper piloting console. I received a very bad cardboard piece you assembled into something that vaguely resembled a fighter display. I didn't care as my pride and imagination allowed me to pretend all that summer that I was a Viper pilot blasting Cylons. |
| TimePortal | 06 Sep 2025 7:44 p.m. PST |
Yes I got this , the ACW series and a few others. I preferred the soft plastic about 1/35 size. My dime store had a series that included Soviets, Japanese, Germans and not just American. We could not get Airfix either. |
| HMS Exeter | 06 Sep 2025 11:55 p.m. PST |
@TimePortal We're the Soviet soldiers a kind of metallic blue? |
| JMcCarroll | 07 Sep 2025 4:34 a.m. PST |
Yes I ordered it! When I saw the small 6" x 6" box I was disappointed. Even more so when I opened the box. Figures were not up to Airfix standards. Still I played with them for a long time. |
| Zephyr1 | 07 Sep 2025 2:46 p.m. PST |
They sell for stupid amounts on eBay these days. I wouldn't bother with the flats unless you are a completist/collector… |
| Tango01 | 07 Sep 2025 4:38 p.m. PST |
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| TimePortal | 07 Sep 2025 5:44 p.m. PST |
Yes they were two colors a flat gray and the metallic blue that you mentioned. |
| Londonplod | 08 Sep 2025 6:16 a.m. PST |
How l longed for these as a small boy in the UK! |
| Choctaw | 08 Sep 2025 8:38 a.m. PST |
I had forgotten all about those. I ordered the Roman version and was very disappointed to discover they were all flats. They made excellent BB gun fodder though. |
| Shardik | 08 Sep 2025 2:23 p.m. PST |
Ah yes, the army set, x-ray glasses, and sea monkeys. Like most kids, I wanted them all but my parents wisely said no. |
| Cmde Perry | 08 Sep 2025 3:04 p.m. PST |
+1 Choctaw
I still have mine…in a box…somewhere…. |
| Tango01 | 08 Sep 2025 4:30 p.m. PST |
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 Bobgnar | 09 Sep 2025 3:51 p.m. PST |
I old then and was into 25mm in 1972, and not reading comic books to see the ads. When younger played with 54mm. Never got these nor the similar Romans. |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 10 Sep 2025 9:40 a.m. PST |
I preferred the soft plastic about 1/35 size. My dime store had a series that included Soviets, Japanese, Germans and not just American. I had those. They were great miniatures, with crisp details and good proportions. Some of them got painted and incorporated into my 1/32 Airfix units after I discovered Airfix later in life. |
 20thmaine | 10 Sep 2025 5:00 p.m. PST |
I was so jealous of people able to get these (and the Romans) – they didn't ship overseas. When I finally found out what they were really like
not so bothered… |
| Tango01 | 11 Sep 2025 4:38 p.m. PST |
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 Old Contemptible | 11 Sep 2025 11:19 p.m. PST |
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