The detailing was outstanding and even now they are still to

[khaldrogo]

When these toys - models and models from Atlantic in the 70's of the last century came on the market it was almost like a revelation for me. The detailing was outstanding and even now they are still top notch. Since then I wanted to build the figures as they were then pictured on the packs. Now, almost fifty years later, I finally built it. Had the luck to buy a whole bunch a few weeks ago. - at a moderate price. Geographically not quite correct but I do not care - just as I wanted to build it.

[Harry Faversham]

We discovered Atlantic figures, just after Airfix ones, back in the sixties. I loved the animated cartoony detail of 'em, compared to the boring looking Airfix figures. We were playing large games with Atlantic Cavalry and Indians right up to a couple of years ago.

[Minuteman]

The first time I saw Atlantic figures was on a school trip to Normandy when I was about 12 or 13. They were the 'modern' range of various French/Italian generic troops with all sorts of heavy weapons, and I was intrigued: quite different to Airfix. I then bought some of their Far West boxes, and enjoyed painting the US Seventh Cavalry, Davy Crockett fighting bears etc.

My affair with Atlantic came soon after however. I made the big mistake (before PSR existed to preview a set) of buying a set of their WW2 'Red Army', probably one of the worst sets of 1/72 figures ever made (those 'machine guns'... ) and never bought any more Atlantic figures at all after that. A shame, but there we are. Esci. Italeri and HaT appeared not long after and these provided all the troops I needed to go alongside the aging and increasingly out-classed Airfix sets that had formed the backbone of my plastic armies.