So here are another couple of images from Miniature Warfare...
These pictures inspired and influenced me quit a lot in my youth... (actually looking at them now still gives my wargames butterfly a flutter) they are all from Volume 2 1969
My father bought me a subscription to the magazine for my birthday... I was 12 years old.
This was the first time I saw miniatures representing troops from the Franco-Prussian War...I spent a considerable time poring over the images... even at my tender age I recognised that the miniatures were mostly conversions...
The artillery and cavalry looked like the were based on Airfix ACW... the others I wasn't sure about(even now I am not certain...)
I set about trying to make my own... mostly with ACW Union Infantry and French Foreign Legion... because that's what I had ... latter I got hold of some WW1 Germans and of course the first thing I did was paint them blue...
I was also given some copies of the Airfix magazine which had articles by Bob Gibson on converting figures into troops from the 7 Weeks War...this led to more creative butchery...
Of course none of these toys have lasted the test of time... plasticine dries up and nothing glued polythene... they probably did however kick start a process that led me to the career I am in now... and I still have a love of 19th century warfare to this day.
The credit on the pictures is Andrew Brown.
I have always assumed that they were his toys and I would love to know a bit more about him and his armies...
All the best Aly
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