Washington’s Army vintage Airfix OOHO paint conversions

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Crossposted from my Pound Store Plastic Warriors blog –

https://poundstoreplasticwarriors.wordpress.com/2021/06/04/imaginations-vintage-airfix-figures-1-black-and-gold-washingtons-army-tricorne-troops/

Strikingly colourful yellow and black paint conversions of the classic Airfix OOHO AWI Washington’s Army figures.

Such perfect figures for ImagiNations games. Enjoy!

More pictures at: https://poundstoreplasticwarriors.wordpress.com/2021/06/04/imaginations-vintage-airfix-figures-1-black-and-gold-washingtons-army-tricorne-troops/

Blog posted by Mark Man of TIN, 4 / 5 June 2021

Published by 26soldiersoftin

Hello I'm Mark Mr MIN, Man of TIN. Based in S.W. Britain, I'm a lifelong collector of "tiny men" and old toy soldiers, whether tin, lead or childhood vintage 1960s and 1970s plastic figures. I randomly collect all scales and periods and "imagi-nations" as well as lead civilians, farm and zoo animals. I enjoy the paint possibilities of cheap poundstore plastic figures as much as the patina of vintage metal figures. Befuddled by the maths of complex boardgames and wargames, I prefer the small scale skirmish simplicity of very early Donald Featherstone rules. To relax, I usually play solo games, often using hex boards. Gaming takes second place to making or convert my own gaming figures from polymer clay (Fimo), home-cast metal figures of many scales or plastic paint conversions. I also collect and game with vintage Peter Laing 15mm metal figures, wishing like many others that I had bought more in the 1980s ...

9 thoughts on “Washington’s Army vintage Airfix OOHO paint conversions”

  1. A full-strength regiment there! Can I ask how you based them? I’ve put my Colonial plastic 20mms on pennies, but for 18th-century types they should be closer together. But heavy enough not to tip over, so card doesn’t work either.

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    1. The square based ones are on thick scrap picture mounting board from an old unwanted display (these were based a year or two ago).
      The round based ones are on MDF penny sized bases from Warbases, as I ran out of metal pennies during Covid Lockdowns.

      They fight mostly skirmish battles rather than “line em up, shoot em up” sort of battles, for which I could buy or make movement trays if needed. Warbases make penny base movement trays. Hope that helps.

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  3. Here are some Courier early 1970s photos from my old AWI Airfix and Scruby 20mm collection (sold in late 1970s):
    IV-4; V-2; VI-4

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