We're already heading towards the end of the car boot season, and this year the pickings have been very thin, but last weekend there was a bumper crop:
The complete haul above cost less than £20 in total, particularly pleased to get the Tudor houses in the background which are ceramic ornaments and in scale for 28mm figures (but will work fine with 54mm). The vast bulk of WW2 Airfix are conversion fodder destined to become medieval footmen.
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I needed some French para's to go with my Viet Minh for the Indochina project but don't like to mess about with vintage Starlux if I can help it so these Hugennot copies will do the job just fine.
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Some of the better odds and ends will be gifted or end up in the junk boxes at the Plastic Warrior Show next year.
At first I though the crude hollowcast copies of Britains Zulus were homecast and planned to repaint them but when I checked the markings under the base I saw they were made by Hanks, so I'll probably keep them as they are.
Some very useful figures there, Brian. The Japanese WW2 are always worth picking up. You were lucky to find even copies of Starlux marins. Noted the Indo-China reference, I have ended up with a small collection of post-ww2 French, but still need to raise a suitable opposition, perhaps Algerian? Regards.
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My Viet Minh are made from WW2 Chinese, current production by Hing Fat, you can get them on ebay for about £5 a bag, I'm not sure what you could use for Algerians.
DeleteA very eclectic haul of toy soldiers indeed Brian, you've got a little bit of everything! It just goes to show that perseverance pays off! Well done!
ReplyDeleteSome good stuff in there Brian. I look forward to the conversions into Medieval troops!
ReplyDeleteYou can't beat Airfix for raw material, on a separate note, google doesn't seem to like me replying to posts on my own blog.
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