V is for Vintage - Waddington's

Sorry Germans, that's a toughie of a title! Because Parker bought Waddington's they share the KPH box, and this is the tail-end of the photo-shoot, we'll look at more Waddington's another day, and Parker's Risk figures will need a post of their own one day.

Waddington's Table Soccer carries 28/30mm statuette type figures of footballers which we looked at just over a year ago, the 'master collection' is only a bag of oddments which have come in, but there is a boxed set somewhere in the garage along with a set of the next lot (below) so we'll return to them here one day for completeness sake!

I think the yellow and brown figure is an early goalkeeper, but the other may be home painted, and I can't remember if the black ones are referees or late version 'reduced paint' goalies? Another reason to return to the set when I find the big boxes of games!

As a playing mechanism Camelot is a sort of simplified draughts (checkers) / fox & geese hybrid, but with the kings present from the start! These are the 'pawns' and are a reasonable 25/28mm-compatable knight, relaxed, in full armour, there are ten each (of both colours) of them and I bet a few of you have some of these in your junk, WTF or TBS (to be sorted) pile!

The 'kings' are closer to 15/20mm-compatible for those looking to beef-up their armies with unusual figures, and you get four of each, this one is an earlier version on a double-plinth base with ogeed edges, manufactured in a softer polystyrene or phenolic of some type, compare with the sharper single disc in brittle 'kit' polystyrene above.

Again I have a set somewhere, so I'll replace the vague description with something more solid when I return to them someday.