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Post by Santi on Aug 3, 2020 23:11:05 GMT
I'm glad that Hät has done very smart box arts in the last times for some of their sets. I'm specially in love with one of them, belonging to their newcoming ACW series, specifically the 8033 American Civil War sampler, because it brings me happy reminds of my chilhood. I explain you the reason. This is the boxart of the set: It's an imitation of a "sobre" (paper bag, so called because it was where the figures came rather than in a box) from Montaplex, a Spanish manufacturer that made copies of figures from different Airfix sets in the sixties, seventies and eighties of the past century. Those figures were of bad quality, but their cheap price and their wide availability made them very popular among the Spanish children of those times, who were unfamiliar with the original Airfix figures or had a budget so low that it prevented us from buying them. I post here several of those "sobres", the first one showing the Montaplex brand logo (replaced by Hataplex by Hät) and the rest with different figures corresponding to the American Civil War. Also there is one of the two identical sprues from the Union combat group "sobre". Inside the circle of the last three you can read 5 ptas (5 pesetas, being the peseta the Spanish currency prior to the euro). When I got my first Airfix set (in the seventies), its price was over 100 pesetas, so you can imagine the success Montaplex figures had, despite their bad quality, considering that inside a "sobre" you've got no less than twenty or twenty-five pieces. They formed the first miniature armies of my generation boys.
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Post by Santi on Aug 3, 2020 23:13:01 GMT
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Post by Santi on Aug 3, 2020 23:19:32 GMT
I have seen that Hät has made another funny box art in one of its more recent sets, the Napoleonic British dragoons sampler 8340. This time the box art ressembles that of the old Atlantic ones (Atlantic replaced by Hatlantic in the box, funny detail). The Hät set: And one of the Atlantic Egyptian sets: Note that there is also the detail of translating the set tittle into other languages, in this case what seems to be Indian sanskrit, Sumerian or Assyrian cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphic. Thanks again, Hät, for this nice initiative. Best regards. Santi.
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