The short history of Rospaks as a seperate entity of Heroics & Ros (known better for their range of micro-armour, which were much finer castings than the cheap, often lop-sided, Skytrex, I went with!) is best writ by studying the few appearances in Military Modelling magazine, and this post in of those cuttings.
November 1981
Trade Ad.
Images show sets AG1 and AG2
November 1981
'Observation Post'
December 1981
Trade Ad.
AG2 and AG3
January 1982
Trade Ad.
AG1
February 1982
Trade Ad.
AR1
March 1982
Trade Ad.
AR1
April 1982
Trade Ad.
AR1
May 1982
Trade Ad.
AR2 and AR3
June 1982
Trade Ad.
AR2 and AR3
October 1982
'Observation Post'
Obviously the magazine is still going (I think; it's years since I bought it), and despite several changes of ownership will still retain some copyrights on the above, which is all from my own archive and shown here for research purposes. The 'Tippex' marks are where I originally wrote-in the publishing dates/details.
It's notable that they stopped advertising some months before the announcement of the end of the line, presumably they were looking for a way to save the project? Less than a year first-to-last and still missed by many, they were quite crude figurines, sculpted in the lead/whitemetal style, but they had a definite charm.
You also have to bear in mind, when these were 99p, a box of Airfix HO/OO figures were about 25/30p?
6 comments:
MM is for Micro Machines ;-)
I can't deny it Ze!
H
Sadly MM is no more. It was amalgamated with another magazine in July 2018.
https://michaelmouse1967.wixsite.com/mag-a-zone/military-modelling-magazine
Thanks for posting these. I wanted some but never managed to get them. This blog has some nice pictures and Will may have the missing sheet.
https://willwarweb.blogspot.com/search/label/Rospaks?m=0
Here are some more.
https://vintagewargaming.blogspot.com/search?q=Rospaks&m=1
I thought I hadn't seen it for a while, I always sort of scan for it when I'm getting CG, and it seemed to have disappeared!
I hadn't seen the Will's War Web stuff, lovely armies! The Vintage link is on earlier posts on Rospaks, sadly he has the same No.2 sheet as me.
They do turn-up occasionally on evilBay, usually between about 12- and 25-quid! Hand-on for the cheaper options!
H
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