Wargaming wishes from my childhood.

 

Many many years ago in the childhood of your blogger I was occassionaly given an American comic - Superman, Batman etc, our next door neighbour, Mr Sharp who bought them and past them onto me (Mr S was an unusual chap who you wouldn't think would be interested in American Super Heroes !?). The facinating thing about these magazines were the adverts for various sets of toy soldiers ! . The one I always wanted was the American War of Independence - my exposure at this time was limited to the early Airfix HO/OO Guardsmen - and I lusted after these exotic figures ! . It was a wish that was never fulfilled - they wanted your 'zip code' - what was that !??? (of course it was the post code which didn't arrive in the UK till many years later) . Of course these figures where semi flats and at that time I would have been disappointed with them as you couldn't tell this from the dynamic advertising . I found this version of the advert which actually shows the figures being viewed  by two clean cut American children . . I had to wait a few years till Airfix finally brought out their range of British Grenadiers and Washington's Army.before I could realise my dream.