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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

O is for Oh, What Could Have Been!

This is the original customer information flyer and order form, it must be a later one given the number of sets listed, and the splitting of the earlier sets into the single pose versions?

The following product list is a different edit to that in earlier posts, and is now the definitive listing, superseding the previous edits;

Rospaks Product Listing
 25mm polystyrene war-games figures from the Heroics & Ross stable, sold in header-carded, polythene/polyethylene bottle-bags. The range was announced/launched in November 1981, and had finished by October 1982.
 
Greeks
AG1 - Greek City Hoplites
AG2 - Greek Light Infantry [November 1981 to April 1982]
AG2a- Thracian Peltasts [from April 1982]
AG2b- Scythian Archers [from April 1982]
AG3 - Greek Cavalry
AG4 - Macedonian Pikemen/Phalangiter/Palangites
 
Romans
AR1 - Roman Legionaries
AR2 - Roman Light Infantry [from February to April 1982]
AR2a - Roman Auxiliary Javelinmen [from April 1982]
AR2b - Roman Western Auxiliary Archers [from April 1982]
AR3 - Roman Cavalry
 
Persians
AP1 - Persian Archers Kneeling Firing, (probably never issued)
AP2 - Persian Spearmen (Kardakes), (probably never issued)
AP3 - Persian Mede Spearmen/Bowmen, (never issued)
AP4 - Persian Immortals, (never issued)
AP5 - Scythian Horse Archers, (never issued)
AP6 - Persian Half-Armoured Cavalry. (never issued)

Celts
AC1 - Celtic Warband Swordsmen, (never issued)
AC2 - Celtic Warband Javlinmen, (never issued)
AC3 - Celtic cavalry, (never issued)
 
Waterslide Transfer Sheets (originally included with the figure sets, later sold separately)
T1 - Greek City Hoplite Shield Designs
T2 - Roman Shield Designs
T3 - Macedonian Shield Designs, (probably never issued, but might have been printed?)
 
Painting Instructions
Sheet 1 - For packs AG1 - AG3
Sheet 2 - For packs AR1 - AR3
Sheet 3 - Persians, (never issued)

Announced - Never Issued
- Napoleonics
- Roman Catapult and Crew
- Greek Elephant

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ros did do cheaper 25mm metal Napoleonics but only for a year or two. Here’s a link.

http://ros25mmfigures.blogspot.com/?m=1

Anonymous said...

I have asked the current owner of Ros if he still has the masters or moulds but they have disappeared.

Hugh Walter said...

Yes, I will eventually do an A-Z entry for H&R with all the micro-armour and other stuff as well as this new, pretty definitive listing!

It would be nice if they DID turn-up, but it's been over forty-years now . . . and the expense of metal tools (over the rubber they were used to) may have been part of the reason they pulled the range, which would lead to a bit of scrap/recycling to get some of the investment back, especially if they were cupro-bronze tools?

H