Here is an ‘X’ Grok watercolour interpretation of a photo of an AirFix Matador Truck and an infantryman. Based on the well-known OO/HO AirFix Matador Truck and the new AirFix WW II British Infantry set. Experimenting with various AI image editors and makers. Instead of having the AI program imagine and create the scene based on a verbal or written instruction, I set up what I have in mind with pieces from the Stearns Collection, then run them through AI and other standard Digital Editors.

A Footnote: I have often published ‘Airfix’ as ‘AirFix’ simply to reproduce the Magic of the Brand Name on my youthful, early reading abilities…a form of nostalgia, actually.

…between two majestic waters: the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea…The Colossus of Rhodes—bronze sentinel of Helios and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World—fell in 226 B.C. due to a powerful earthquake. It had stood for only about 56 years, having been completed around 282 B.C.

Interestingly, the ruins remained untouched for centuries, becoming a kind of mythic relic themselves. According to later accounts, the remnants were finally broken up and sold off around 653 CE, when Arab forces under Mu’awiya I conquered Rhodes.

Here, a collapsed 1/12 scale Aurora Models Silver Knight of Augsburg stands in to illustrate the calamity.

Somewhere in the OO/HO world a Classic AirFix Matador vehicle with the newest AirFix British Infantry …Moki the Cat added the “hair of smoke ” to the pistol….

Now to the Trenches! AirFix to the Front! AirFix box art from around 1969, when they made affordable History themed Wargame Quality figure sets with amazing numbers of poses the go-to for those outgrowing ‘The Toy Story’ style Plastic Army Men…