Can anybody identify the old Minifig A127 figure?

[Dave Beatty]

I've acquired some old Minifigs on eBay, 5 to a strip and the designation on the sprue is A127.  They look vaguely Germanic or perhaps Dark Age-ish.  There are 5 different poses, three with javelins and smaller round shields, two have slashing swords with the same style small round shields.

[Duncan Head]

I wonder if they're based on the Armenian/Asiatic javelinman from AEIR - the equivalent to http://www.miniaturefigurines.co.uk/images/catalogue/IR%2077.jpg ? The little ankle-boots would fit.

You could try https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Strip_Minifigs_Ancients/

[Jim Webster]

But frankly they'd fit in pretty well anywhere to bulk up generic (ish) infantry. I suspect the main probable will be that they'll be a bit small next to modern figures

Jim

[stevenneate]

Yes - they are Celtic or Briton skirmishers.  I used Minifig Strips for my first 'metal' army, the mighty Galatians, back in about 1979!

[Jim Webster]

I have a lot of the old strip figures still doing sterling service in my Carthaginian, Numidian and Roman Republican armies :-)

Jim

[Tim]

My Russian cavalry are almost all Minifigs strip figures (had the army 25 years and it was second hand then!) - they have done as everything from Gengis Khan's Mongols to Ivan the Terrible's hordes...