Kekso wrote:As others said, it must be a joke or fan art...
Yes, Hät has done it in the last times with 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.
Many thanks to Hät for allowing me to relive such good memories from my childhood, and I want to share them with other Spaniards on the forum as veterans as me.
Santi.