Sure I remember... For a long time I thougt the title was "PåF ingene" due to the graphics! An that "Sir" was the most common english name... I must have had about a hundred of those small magazines. And just as many of "Commandoes" and whatever the others were called. I wasn't allowed to buy them, so I traded and swopped with all kind of stuff with my friends. I wonder if they are considered antiqs today? They should be...

hmmmm maybe we ought to paint up our planes...take picks and post them here. what do you guys think???

the only remnant i have is a single rubber tank track that i keep in my jewerly box. a precious reminder of a time so long ago...

That's a great idea, even if everyone just does the plane they most frequent it would be cool. I will order myself a Spit mk2 and ground crew and set about creating a diorama.
Gilly are you leaving the I-153 to last? No that's a model I would like to take out back and torch :-)

Damn you all! I'm going to have to go out and buy all my old paints and files and stuff again :)

I've not built a model aircraft for at least 20 years.. Could be messy. Is there going to be a prize for worst effort? I could win that.

lol me too. Last time I bought an Umbrol paint pot it was something like 30p. I bet they are nearer £2 now.
I used to be quite proud of some of my later painted aircraft but I bet I will be put to shame by some on here. Never the less I have my secret weapon Airfix RAF ground crew to swing it :-)
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Well I thought the I-153 was a toy plane!! Was going to build it 1:1 as it'll still be smaller than my Hurri!!!

Whenever I see them buzzing around in the game I half expect to see King Kong on the Empire State building smack one of them

Yeah my mum hated it when I set up my battles. My dad loved it though and that wound her up even more. In fact my dad encouraged me, I think he was reliving his youth. After the Airfix he went and bought a ton of Napoleonic solder moulds cheap. He then came home one day with a bag full of lead strips...I did ask where he got it but figured some church roof now had leaks. We melted this down and made a ton of metal figures that I painted up. I think they are still at my mums, will have to dig them out and see.

Have some small tanks made from lead. must find and paint! God this sounds fun lol

Dang! only 51 they have is 1:24 and 50 pounds. what 1 pound = 2 usd??? so that is $100....plus shipping ($10)...plus paints ($15)...plus roses ($25) plus movie tickets ($15), plus dinner ($50)....gonna be one expensive plane! is doable...lol

i think moms had a hard time with us setting up battles for couple reasons. no matter how well we cleaned up the MIA soldier we left laying around would get sucked up into the vacuum and burn out a belt or make a racket. and then i think they were simply jealous....all they had were tea parties with flopsy the bunny and raggedy ann...how thrilling. lol


wookie if you find those molds...that would be awesome. might have a little sideline biz there in the works. make and paint soldiers...could be a project for your kids.