My main gripe with Historex was that the hands never gripped anything and were devilishly difficult to remodel. Hornet to the rescue!

I think that we should declare a national Historex Day and get everyone on this site to tackle one of their figures! Lots of fun to be had and a great figure at the end. Difficult to do one in a day though... a foot figure should be doable though.

I think that it was great to have everything as spare parts to order what you needed and their old catalogue is still excellent as a horse painting guide.
Cheers
John

I think this is a great idea. It should encourage more figure modellers to tackle figure conversions. Not sure that I can tackle a decent conversion in 1 day though. A few days is more realistic for me. We could start a thread just focused on figure conversions, presumably based largely on Historex and Airfix but not excluding other makes.

Anybody else ever sign up to the original Historex newsletter ? The translations were hilarious - my favourite was always the
sign off 'Good-bye for the news all in all' it used to say. Great stuff...

Mike

I remember this! Typical of someone attempting a word-for-word translation without knowledge of colloquial expression. Always wondered why such a renowned company didn't invest in a professional translator. On the other hand, who are we to criticise, given the known general lack of foreign language expertise amongst our population. Imagine a similar effort to translate English into French. The mind boggles.

Oui, c'est ca !

Comportement typique anglais, n'est ce pas ?

Absoluement, plus ca change, n'est-ce pas?

I remember driving down from Wisconsin and seeing the figures in the Squadron shop and wondering if I ever could paint that well. Even if I didn't buy anything, the trip was worth it.

I was hooked on Historex when I saw my first catalog. The photos of all the masterworks at the time. The kits sometimes came with a small flyer announcing the next Historex competitons in France, and a form to send in if you were missing a piece from your kit. They are my passion still today. Check out Historex Spare Parts Madness on this site. So Iam all for a Historex project for others of like mind.

I always have at least 5 Historex projects in line , and currently working on a pretty big diorama to house all of them. I am also hooked.

I remember owning several of the Historex catalogues from the 1970s, with that beautiful Ray Lamb figure artwork on the covers. They were worth buying for that alone.
The hints & tips for conversion etc. inside were also handy, & I still keep photocopies of those pages. Beautiful kits, & Historex Agents were (& still are) extremely nice & generous people to deal with.

I didn't start with Historex but I did build some,I was really surprised at my first one as I seem to remember the moustache was separate!!