Been in the attic 3 - past remnants

 Although I didn't find a lot of the figures I was looking for, I did come across one box of (mainly) plastic figures that mostly go way back to the 70s.

All sorts of things visible - some early Warrier Greeks, Airfix Roman archers, etc, etc

Concentrating on conversions, I had a couple of completed units of 'cataphracts', though only ne was actually finished. Horse armour is simply loo roll.

Greek and Macedonian cavalry conversions - none of these made it to full units, though I did have a unit of Macedonian Phalangites made from Airfix Romans.

Another experiment - seeing how well Airfix Romans would work as Sarmations. On the table, better than the photo suggests!

Somewhere I should have a lot more of these - at Uni and about to go on industrial training for 4 months I needed a lightweight army. So in 4 weeks I painted and converted 40 cavalry - 20 standard javelin cavalry, 10 'Trajanic' horse archers using the top half of the Roman armoured archer, and 10 cataphracts, see above. Already had 100 or 150 legionaries plus the heavy archers. Also, 40 auxiliary infantry, half like this, other half archers made from the Robin Hood set.

Remember when the Robin Hood set figures were green rather than creamish? Still a few lying around...

Finally, did dig out a few Japanese, just not the mass of Airfix ones I was looking for.