Slingshot arrived today and an interview with Neville Dickinson in it prompted me to look out my Numidians-
They need a wee sort out, possibly rebasing prior to being pressed into service with other old school ancients. In a suitably nostalgic mood I got this old ex library book out for a wee look-
I had the Turkish Breakfast for lunch and it was absolutely delicious! On returning home l worked on some MLS Workers Militia figures who l moved along very nicely.
Fantastic Minifigs chunky spears!
ReplyDeleteI have Tartars with much thicker spears!
DeleteAlan Tradgardland
Now that Turkish breakfast does look good!
ReplyDeleteNever had any Minifigs ancients. Just the chunky 25mm SYW range.
Chris/Nu
Excellent breakfast!
DeleteI do like Minifigs SYW figures too.
Alan Tradgardland
Minifigs were Da Bomb back in the Seventies - I always preferred them to the regularly awful Hinchcille alternatives - being a mere callow youth at the time, though, I only ever had 20 or 30 to supplement my nasty plastic Airfixers!
ReplyDeleteYour lunch does look exceedingly good!
It was, I quite like Hinchcliffe but Minifigs are indeed better!
DeleteAlan Tradgardland
I've always liked the Minifigs figures - especially once they became chunky - and hence more robust. I suspect Mr Dickinson recognised that the war gamers' view of their soldiery, mostly from above downward, would have a foreshortening effect that would disguise the seeming corpulence of the figures as seen from the level. But the style I have always found attractive, and the figures are easy to paint.
ReplyDeleteThere are some of us out there still cheering for Minifigs! Hurrah!
ReplyDeleteAlan Tradgardland