Airfix Figures in the seventies

[Manfred]

Cleaning out part of my cellar I found some old Airfix 1/72 figures and marveled how well their anatomy looks. Promptly forgot about the rest of the cellar

Is it know who did the masters for them back in the early seventies ?
The 8th army and Afrikakorps from the second release (around 1973) looks so good and crisp even these days.

I seem to remember that a man named Niblett did the Sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood sets, and later did two big metal ECW figures.

Can anyone shed more light on Airfix figure production or the actual process of making them?
I might even take a few of my childhood heroes and paint them with todays knowledge...

Manfred

 

[Parkadge]

Check out this site for more info.
http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Index.html
I have to be dragged away from the computer sometimes as I get lost in this site

 

[Roy]

Pat...that is some website, almost got lost there for a while myself...

Roy.

 

[Lou Masses]

Me too. Brought back alot of memories!

 

[John Long]

That's a neat site. We fought many epic battles with those soldiers. I have stashed away in an old checkbox, the Airfix forward observation post and a handful of paratroops painted with testors enamels. What a hoot.