Vintage Wargaming: Rospaks: Ancient Greeks

Friday 3 September 2010

Rospaks: Ancient Greeks

The picture shows three different packs of Rospak Greeks - AG1 Greek Hoplites, AG 2a spear armed peltasts, and AG 3 Greek Cavalry. One of these packs is stamped on the reverse of the header card by the seller, Military Services (T S Walsh), 87 Ellacombe Road, Longwell Green, Bristol, B'tton 4085.

For a more detailed account of these figures take a look at Hugh Walter's post on his Small Scale World blog here.

I have a commercial interest in this post as I currently have some of the Greek figures available for sale, including bagged sets of hoplites (these are the later versions without shield transfers). I also have some loose hoplites, peltasts, archers and cavalry figures. If you are interested in buying any of these hard to find figures, you can contact me using the e-mail link in the right hand column on this page under Contact Vintage Wargaming (below the list of blog followers).

2 comments:

Uwe said...: Hi Clive,

in case these guys do fit with 1/72 (I thought they are somewhat bigger?) I can help you with your commercial interest:-)

cheers
Uwe; 5 September 2010 at 18:03
Vintage Wargaming said...: Hi Uwe I would say they are compatible with 25mm metal figures of the 1980s. Does this help?

Clive; 6 September 2010 at 14:29

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