Loved these figures , Also civil war .Hours of fun.

Great box sets and all on sprue...rare these days....fantastic find!

The, "Long rods," on the British infantry are Coopers - a type of pike carried by the Colour Sergeants. Although the duties have changed, they would originally have defended the colours, and thus were issued with weapons that didn't have to be reloaded.

Painted hundreds of these as a kid, played for hours on the carpet ,lost a few to the hoover 😢

Had and still have hundreds of them,there was a french imperial guard set and a prussian infantry set as well,had hours of fun with them all and even used the french sets as mexicans to refight the alamo against cowboy set and a few confederate soldiers....all unpainted but could see the colours in my head......now its just voices.😮

@jamespaton6047

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I did the same in the 1970's lol. I had the Wagon Train set as well.

Wow - fantastic box condition. My Highlanders in Square formation were slaughterd I don't know how many times all thru the 1970s

Cool kits.

I have zero interest in the Napoleonic wars. Having said that, the Airfix Napoleonic figures were some of the nicest figure sets they ever created. You might notice that there are figures on the frames which represent dead soldiers - this was common in Airfix sets, and, as kids, they were the first ones we looked for, on opening the box. Kids can be morbid little sods; I know this, because I was one. The box art is absolutely gorgeous, I cannot deny that. The only set I owned, were the Prussians. To this day, I don't know why. 🤔🤔🤔 😆😆😆 Lovely to see those old boxes again. And the figures are still on their frames! Actually gave me goosebumps when I saw that! Even if figures are not your thing, those little boxes are things of beauty in their own right. Nice one. Thank you.

@nostalgicplastic4323

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Cheers Brian. Not my thing either, but interesting and a bit unusual. Dead horses! Yuk!

@brianartillery

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​@@nostalgicplastic4323 Dead horses. Not pleasant, but sadly realistic. One of those sets has a little diorama of a bloke hiding behind his presumably just fallen horse. Sad, but true.

I've got the Prussian Llandwher and also Royal Scots Greys and Polish Lancers. Not sure if all Airfix but haven't got around to painting the Prussian or Scots or Polish.

You are only missing the French Imperial Guard. I had hundreds and hundreds of those, I painted, as a child.

50 лет прошло...это же раритет!😂😮

If I remember correctly you got 3 French cannons but only 2 British ones

@nostalgicplastic4323

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Those sneaky French!

@MickCampin-jp9kb

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@@nostalgicplastic4323 but British were 12lbs against French 9lbs so if you bought 3 British boxes you got 6 but just 2 French got you 6 too