A is for Armed Insurgency!

I managed to shoot these Safari figures twice, as two posts! Anyway I've combined them both for a well illustrated overview of 12 figures! Safari's AWI sets, which will have their proper day in the sun in four years time I guess - if we're all still here!

Larger than some of their other stuff, these come six to a toob and while I looked out for some affordable ones, they tend not to be cheap . . . I still haven't got the combat/GI set because it only ever seems to be far more than it's worth, which is often twice the other sets?

The Brit's, had the moral high-ground, but a mad king! And by losing to the terrorists don't get the blame for the subsequent genocides of 9-12-million locals. The real fault with these is that you only actually get two riflemen, everyone else is what war-gamers would call the 'command' element!

Yeah . . . the tax avoiding, tax evading, tea-wasting French-fry lovers, and it's not as if we were wanting to tax their efforts, they mostly had slaves to do the hard work! A fife instead of a bugle, and someone looking like that chap on the left, on Mount Rushmore? Need's a hair-cut - that's the trouble with colonists, they forget their manners and go rogue!

The flag with the British bearer is correct for the period depicted, Ireland's red cross being yet to be incorporated, but it's incorrect on the toob-artwork, which shows the post-1800 Union flag! The white diagonals on the figure's flag could be a tad wider though.

Some of the figures come with little blister-type plastic wraps to try and hold them in the correct posture, but to be honest it doesn't work, neither do the small pods on some of the feet in lieu of proper bases.

Anyone who's seen Scumbag College's appearance on University Challenge will know why I put our boys on top! Nothing in this post is racist, indeed all it's obviously in jest (except for the genocide . . . and slaves), but if some of the PSTSM get excited . . . good!