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General Category => Army Research => Topic started by: Dave Beatty on July 11, 2014, 04:21:32 PM

Title: Can anybody identify the old Minifig A127 figure?
Post by: Dave Beatty on July 11, 2014, 04:21:32 PM
I've acquired some old Minifigs on eBay, 5 to a strip and the designation on the sprue is A127.  They look vaguely Germanic or perhaps Dark Age-ish.  There are 5 different poses, three with javelins and smaller round shields, two have slashing swords with the same style small round shields.
Title: Re: Can anybody identify the old Minifig A127 figure?
Post by: Duncan Head on July 11, 2014, 04:49:35 PM
I wonder if they're based on the Armenian/Asiatic javelinman from AEIR - the equivalent to http://www.miniaturefigurines.co.uk/images/catalogue/IR%2077.jpg (http://www.miniaturefigurines.co.uk/images/catalogue/IR%2077.jpg) ? The little ankle-boots would fit.

You could try https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Strip_Minifigs_Ancients/ (https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Strip_Minifigs_Ancients/)
Title: Re: Can anybody identify the old Minifig A127 figure?
Post by: Jim Webster on July 11, 2014, 10:14:03 PM
But frankly they'd fit in pretty well anywhere to bulk up generic (ish) infantry. I suspect the main probable will be that they'll be a bit small next to modern figures

Jim
Title: Re: Can anybody identify the old Minifig A127 figure?
Post by: stevenneate on July 15, 2014, 07:05:27 AM
Yes - they are Celtic or Briton skirmishers.  I used Minifig Strips for my first 'metal' army, the mighty Galatians, back in about 1979!
Title: Re: Can anybody identify the old Minifig A127 figure?
Post by: Jim Webster on July 15, 2014, 07:38:04 AM
I have a lot of the old strip figures still doing sterling service in my Carthaginian, Numidian and Roman Republican armies :-)

Jim
Title: Re: Can anybody identify the old Minifig A127 figure?
Post by: Tim on July 15, 2014, 09:55:44 AM
My Russian cavalry are almost all Minifigs strip figures (had the army 25 years and it was second hand then!) - they have done as everything from Gengis Khan's Mongols to Ivan the Terrible's hordes...