AIRFIX HO-OO ( 1/72nd) Scale Figurines
My fascination for Airfix figures began when my Uncle John,
bought 2 boxes of 1/72nd figures for my birthday when I was in
Primary School. It was WW2 British Paratroopers and WW2 Japanese Infantry. I
had great fun “fighting” them in trenches (huge hairline cracks on our cement
floors) and landing them on beaches from landing barges ( old cassette covers).
The next time I saw Airfix kits for sale was when I went
shopping with my mum was at CK Tangs along Orchard Road during the 1970’s.
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| CK Tangs Departmental Store (pic.taken from Skyscrapercity.com) |
She will let me wander in the Toys section which was located
at the basement. I recalled there was a bin/shelf for “Special Offer” toys. I
am sure anything on sale will be approved by my mum . Whilst rummaging through,
I saw a box of Airfix figurines. They were the Waterloo Highland Infantry.
There was a “window’ at the back of the box and the figure on the sprue that
caught my eyes was the Flag bearer. Of course, I raced to find mum and she bought
it ( possibly at half the price and I can’t recall how much was it – neither
did my mum)- Unfortunately , when I took the figures out, they crumbled easily…
it was a real disappointment. Nonetheless, I was truly excited to have a unit
of highlanders on guard—but was losing men quickly as they were coming off
their base fairly quickly. Unfortunately, I cannot reconcile waterloo units
with WW2 ones for my battles.
First box of Waterloo figurines mum bought for me.
The back of the Waterloo Highland Infantry box has a window
and picture of selected poses of the figurines contained in the box similar to the French Artillery Box pictured on the 4rth Quadrant above. ( Sample of
the back box of Waterloo French Artillery taken from smallscalwrold@blogspot.com )
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