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Re: Night Landing variant
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 22:20
by The Kraken Wakes
Me too, think it would look a bit silly but ive been proved wrong before on stuff like this...
Re: Night Landing variant
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 22:30
by Thundershot
How about making a sort of toy soldier size

type affair?
With toy "Airfix" type plastic soldiers painted up to look like say

or

, & using the appropiate stickers on the boat ?
It would certainly be something different & original.. I mean not every

custom has to 3 3/4 scale does it?, just look @ them fab 40mm gaming figures or custom 12" others have made.
Re: Night Landing variant
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 22:37
by Red Laser
I think my brother has both our Airfix collections unless he only took the bigger scale ones. I know he bought the Commandos years ago which would have made cracking SAS. Thanks for the idea though.
Re: Night Landing variant
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 22:54
by Thundershot
I think Airfix commandos are very easy to pick up from model shops now, as they've been re-released not that long ago, if not you can very often find them cheap in charity shops or on E-bay, as they must of been produced in the millions over the years.
The more I think about it, I may just "borrow" the idea my self...it would be very easy to do, just paint the commandos in black with grey camo' &, for an authentic toy soldier feel, no weathering or special paint effects of any kind. If you use the commando guy kneeling with a Bren gun & the fella with the tommy gun...
http://www.airfixtoysoldiers.com/british_commandos.htm
or harder to find, use the modern S.A.S. set Airfix put out in the early 80's as they look just like
http://www.airfixtoysoldiers.com/sas.htm
Re: Night Landing variant
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 23:08
by Red Laser
I had the SAS from the 80's I will have to find out where they are now.