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Yes must have terrified those German parachutists dressed as nuns.!

As I said previously we sell Airfix etc in our shop, but the other day a rep came in selling Britains soldiers ... Remember them ? A pocket money toy. Not anymore a single Zulu warrior chappie is £22.00 ! Yes 22 POUNDS ! And three desert fellows on a camel.... £305.00 ! :shocking: Good luck for the future Britans ! :thumbsup:

Another piece of the navy gone. :mad:

Yes I had forgotten about fort Sahara ..... Happy days

Crumbs!

Shame that kids today aren't that interested. We sell Airfix and all that in our shop, but its older guys that buy it. yes I bet many a heinkel fell to the famous .177 anti aircraft gun

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And greetings from Essex , England

Great photos of a great machine

I wonder how many of us started our military interest due to Airfix models ? I certainly did. I remember my nan buying my first ever kit for me when I was about 5 years old. She got it for me in walthamstow high street in the early 1960s. A Hawker typhoon if I remember right. Terribly exciting with a fantastic picture on the paper label. By the time I was about 10 , I must have made every kit in the catalogue. By then I knew my crusaders from my Matilda's and my tigers from my panthers. the little information notes on the bags were history being told , with such names as Stalingrad , El alemain, and Normandy. never in the field of human history has so much been learned from such little bags. good old Airfix

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Sorry sir no flapjack wounds to report, but I have got a scar by my eye where I got hit by a low flying cockle.

Aha!! Canvey island ... Born there and lived there for 47 years..... Halcyon days ... Collecting .50 cals from the crashed Flying Fortress and swapping them at school, searching through the wrecks of scrapped MTBs to find cannon shells............ ( They do make quite a bang..) playing soldiers on the old landing craft and carrying bits of Messerschmitt 109 home. yes good old days. What would they make of it now..?

Well done on your recent purchase ! all the best Roy

Poor blokes

Americans ! They always have to make a bigger kite than anyone else .

Welcome to the best forum around Dan roy

Welcome to the gang. I too look forward to warmer weather, got a lot of painting to do!

Exactly the same here in eastern essex

That's one helluva picture

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Good evening. Welcome to the Forum from freezing Essex

According to the met office it's been pouring down here to two hours. ........ But it's not

Aha!! I didn't have to wait for the snow to use my winch in anger for the first time. A fork lift at the local garden centre went down a hole and nobody could get it out, but my Jimmy did it easy.! Good girl !! And it worked out better than I though because the same fork lift did me a favour and lifted up my gun ring so I could fit it. A jolly good show !

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