A Model Soldier Conundrum

[herzlos]

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Where did all my 1/32nd scal airfix figures go??? i had about 500 of them ....Lost in the sands of time.

My Dad gave all mine away along with all the HO/OO ones but as I'd left them at his house when I moved out 10 years before I can't really complain. Same with a load of books many discontinued etc but they went to the Burma Vets Association so once again no complaints.

I do have a vast leadpile containing figures anywhere up to 30 years old, there are some which I really should sell off but the hassle of sorting through it does not seem worth it. Could just send it in bulk to a 2nd hand dealer but I know there are many things in there that I'll need one day, honest.

I actually bit the bullet last summer and sold off all the stuff I was never going to use at a convention bring and buy, made about £150. Bad idea; I just spent it all on new stuff

[Sirius]

Soooooooooooooo...... Just where are all these figures?!!!! Where are they kept? THere must be millions out there somewhere...

They become unexploded ticking hobby bombs... oxidising quietly until someone finds them: A few years back 12-year-old son found a cardboard box of my old wargames figures in my parents store - they must have been overlooked when I had gotten rid of my gaming stuff in the mid 80's. A good few questions and a severe dent to my credit card later, he was the proud owner of a WFB army. His enthusiasm rubbed off, and via a journey through Warmachine, Mordheim, Secrets of the Third Reich and a few other systems I am back where I started in the 70s - WW2 gaming.

My Mum's garden still produces the odd toy soldier every now and then.

Classic!

Cant imagine how much Airfix plastic lurks in the soil of my parents old place - especially in the vicinity of our "shooting range" where soft plastic figures and tank kits saw the end of their days as targets for our air rifles....

[Cubster]

You mean a bit like this..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X2GD5C_wHY

I'm going to say this.

Yes, Nikita, you're a pretty girl and you don't look too bad in fairness, but I do think your bathing costume is probably too small for your proportions.

That is all.

[clivethecelt]

I imagine (before eBay), most people gave unwanted minis to their old wargame friends or club. I cleared out all of my old 1/72 and 1/300 WW2 and 15mm colonial about 20 years ago, and I know they ended up at Derby Wargames Club; dunno if they're still there - sad, 'cos there were some really neat AFVs painted by Carvel, too. There were hundreds of Brit, German, Russian and US 1/300s, and 100+ 1/72 AFVs; lots of infantry, too.

@Cubster: ... think many of my 1/32nd Airfix British Infantry are still there!

[Invisible officer]

I think you'll find most of them at Invisible officers place

You are so mean, so meeeeaaaan.

[carvel2]

@clive...I have no recollection of afv's What? When?
I only have nostalgia to look forward to!!
I have a Napoleonic Arfix army...roughly painted in the attic (fausands of 'em, and in massive cardboard boxes that held some kind of film for spying on the soviets!)

Various 1/32 ww2 figures.
A few metal Britains...a leaving present from my last school , favourite bing a WW1 cyclist
Timpo crusaders and britains saracens....
in fact writing this I might go up int' loft fur a look!
Soooooo.... we are agreed. Most are at Invisibles place and the rest are evenly distributed around lofts and workbenches (sorry IO ...but you know its true )

[Invisible officer]

@ carvel

Cave Elephas maximus

[clivethecelt]

@carvel/IO: Bizarre - one of the AFVs was a ... cave elephas porsche?

[carvel2]

@Clive...That does ring a bell. Desert type colours with a green tiger stripe???

[Comte Michel]

I know a good proportion are in my mate Bill's garage. He was in the habit (obsession?) of buying up every wargames army that anyone hinted they didn't want any more. Eventually he couldn't get his car in any more.