Remembering 1971

[Mirofsoft]

A friend of mine, reading my previous post " Remembering 1972" asked me why not begin with 1971 ?
Because I have not much infos . What ? And he gave me Military Modelling 1971 in PDF format .

Let's begin with Almarks, already selling figurines in plastic

A picture of Bill Horan at IPMS in 1970

And a figure entered by Bill Hearnes

Douglass

Garrison doing also 54mm

Hinchliffe 20, 30 and 54mm Equipments

Hinton Hunt

Lammings 25 and 54mm

Minifigs

Minot

Olive

And some work of P Wilcox

Rose Miniatures

Sentry Box

Bugle & Guidon

Higgins

 

[Mirofsoft]

Part II Remembering 1971

Nannuci

Lasset

Sanderson

Serie 77 Par Bird and J Tassel

Riko Minitanks

Stadden 90mm

Warriors in Miniatures

Standish

Bugle & Guidon

Hampshire

Jackboot

Warneford

1973 in preparation

 

[Tecumsea]

Are you sure that is bill Horan in the first picture?

 

[polyphemus]

That's Bill Hearne.

Geoff

 

[Mirofsoft]

You are right it's Hearnes

 

[arj]

A friend of mine, reading my previous post " Remembering 1972" asked me why not begin with 1971 ?
Because I have not much infos . What ? And he gave me Military Modelling 1971 in PDF format .

I'll leave all the interesting adverts to you.
However, Military Modelling did not appear solely in 1971.
It's origin is in Scale Models, which started in October 1969. The first cover was:-

with the the index page

One of the articles was by Bill Hearne:-



The series continued with many more figure articles by Bill, with additional ones by Pat Campeau and Peter Wilcox.

The October 1970 issue contained the following page, announcing the start of Military Modelling in its own right:-



and the next issue contained the following advert announcing the launch of Military Modelling:-



This issue (No. 15) contained a superb S.B.S. article by Bill Hearne on modelling wire wheels in plastic. I've included all four pages for anyone who might be interested:-



And that concludes my history interlude.

Cheers,
Andrew

 

[Huw63]

Thanks for sharing this Andrew. I've got Issue 1 of MM and then all issues from Jan 1976 to Oct 2013. The last one I bought had an article suitably entitled "The Last in Line". I then switched to digital format until it's recent demise. I'm about to embark going through all issues and cutting out the articles I wish to keep and binning the rest.

Cheers

Huw

 

[Tecumsea]

I did the same a while back Huw, the first 30 years of MM into folders-while it is easier to find individual items the folders take up as much room as the magazines....LOL

Keith

PS Thought it was Bill Hearne in the first picture but thanks for confirming Geoff.

 

[DEL]

Remember 1971 .........not a snowballs chance in hell ........ best year ever musically

 

[Mike S.]

Ah, good memories of my youth. Thanks for sharing!

 

[blaster]

Hi Mirof, Andrew and all,

Thanks for starting this thread. Useful nostalgic stuff for old fogies but also useful for young fogies like myself who weren't aware of 1969 origins.

Rgds
Victor

 

[oldtrousers]

Great stuff. Thanks for posting this!

Scott

 

[blaster]

I wasn't sure where to post this. I came across this reference to Border Miniatures and it has ye olde figures nicely painted on the website.

http://petesnewworkshop.blogspot.com/p/military-figures.html

Rgds Victor

 

[Ray Stout]

In those adverts, there was one for Lamings Miniatures. Here's a pic of Bill Laming(on the right) promoting his 100yrs. war range

 

[Ray Stout]

Here are are few of the figures around at that time from Phoenix

 

[Ray Stout]

Series 77 and does anyone remember Cafe Storme?

 

[Mirofsoft]

Series 77 and does anyone remember Cafe Storme?

Yes

remember Mokarex is 1954 , Mokalux is 1956 and Storme is 1963