Airfix 54mm Set #9 51577 Space Warriors (1981) - Pt 7 Pose 6 Space Frisbee

It looks like this guy is throwing a frisbee, but I have the feeling this is one frisbee you don't want to catch! Enjoy! Opa Fritz

Airfix 54mm Set #9 51577 Space Warriors (1981) - Pt 6 Pose 5 "You Shall Not Pass!"

Whoever this guy is, he means business! I really do like the action poses in this set, where each character (except the bad guy) is doing something, unlike so many other series of vintage spacemen where only a few poses are action poses while the others are just standing there posing for photos! Enjoy! Opa Fritz

Airfix 54mm Set #9 51577 Space Warriors (1981) - Pt 3 Pose 2 Hero Boy

Like the Tim-Mee Galaxy Laser Team, the Airfix Space Warriors has its own version of a Hero Boy. The two poses are very similar but the characterizations are totally different. The Tim-Mee version has more of an old school almost Buck Rogers look to it, while the Airfix version has more of that '70s-'80s vibe to it. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

Airfix 54mm Set #9 51577 Space Warriors (1981) - Pt 1

I've been holding on to this set for years and it was finally time to photograph it. We just finished off the Tim-Mee 'Galaxy Laser Team' from 1978 which was a nice set with some interesting figures in it that are most certainly welcome in any space diorama or set-up. Three years later - in 1981 - Airfix released their take on the whole space opera gig by releasing this set called 'Space Warriors'. Quite frankly, this is a far better set. The figures are scaled to 54mm, are better sculpted, and are more 'animated' as a whole. There are no 'fillers' like generic astronaut poses - each one of these is a space warrior, no doubt about it! My set was made in France and, quite frankly, that's all I know about Airfix. When I was a kid I built some of their airplane models and did have some of their 1/72 figures but that was a l-o-n-g time ago! Maybe I'll learn a little more about the company as the series progresses.  The photo essays will be in forthcoming installments. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

This is what was included in the box

These are the separate poses. Their are no aliens or robots in this set.