Whether you model airfields, town and country scenes or railways, you need people and animals to make your model exciting and life-like. The Airfix series of "00" scale figures gives you a choice of hundreds of carefully moulded assorted figures :-Soldiers, Civilians, Cowboys, Indians, farmstock, all to the same scale, all accurate, and they can all be painted to bring your model scenes to life.
- From the 1st edition catalogue (1962)