Getting too involve in WW II Games

[dkwookie]

Originally Posted by bobbysocks

Airfix ROCKED!!! those were my absolute favorite models! i had ( and burned ...he says banging his head off of the deck ) every WW2 tank, truck and aircraft, figure. they were small, excellently crafted, and very affordable. I too would love to build scenes... DANG they are still around too!! and the mossie is back in stock!!

http://www.airfix.com/

You just cost me £35! I looked on there and Airfix have re-released all those Waterloo figures I had as a nipper. I got the gift set with farm house and loads of troops. All I need now is the space to set it all up!

[PantherAttack2]

There's nothin' wrong with going back to your roots...

Man, this thread makes me want to build a model battleship (or blow up one of my existing cruiser model kits!)!

[bobbysocks]

Originally Posted by dkwookie

You just cost me £35! I looked on there and Airfix have re-released all those Waterloo figures I had as a nipper. I got the gift set with farm house and loads of troops. All I need now is the space to set it all up!

You brought up Airfix first!! dang you! lol. i have this bad, bad feeling that i will be having regular shipments from the uk on my doorstep. my wife is going to wig out...haha

[dkwookie]

Originally Posted by bobbysocks

You brought up Airfix first!! dang you! lol. i have this bad, bad feeling that i will be having regular shipments from the uk on my doorstep. my wife is going to wig out...haha

Lol I am with you. I used to collect all those little soldiers and see they have re-released most of them. I found this site which has reviews and photos of them all. A real blast from the past. Check out the ww2 ground crew sets. I used to have some painted up planes on a piece of chipboard I had painted as a runway. Really set the whole scene with the ground crew pulling the bomb trolleys over
http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Index.aspx

edit; here's the ground crew I had:
http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=47

[bobbysocks]

wookie, you are a bad influence on me. haha. wish my grandson was closer "he" would have a lot of fun with all of these.

[McQ59]

Yeah wookie... Now you got me going too! (I wonder were all my soldiers went after I dismissed them back in the early 70's... There must have been thousands of them! And my mother hated them!!)

I've just orderd a cpl of airfix-sets. It's like I can smell the glue already...

[Gilly]

My names Gilly and I'm a member of AA ( Airfix anonymous). I afraid to say my addiction returned following the birth of my son 5 years ago. Since then I dabbled with such things as hornby trainsets, scalextric and possibly the worst class A Lego, but as much as I've managed to at least control these potential addicitions my airfix one has started to seriously effect me. The advent of BoP last year has only gone to compound my addiction as I'm steadily working through reproducing the aircraft in the game. I've thankfully reduced my consumtion to approximately one aircraft every couple of weeks but do think it has the potential if not handled carefully to become much more!!!

[dkwookie]

Originally Posted by McQ59

Yeah wookie... Now you got me going too! (I wonder were all my soldiers went after I dismissed them back in the early 70's... There must have been thousands of them! And my mother hated them!!)

I've just orderd a cpl of airfix-sets. It's like I can smell the glue already...

I was adicted to collecting those 1/72 scale soldiers as a kid. Napoleonic were my favourites but I used to get everything from Romans up to ww2. Mainly airfix and esci ones. Looking at that plastic soldier sites reviews shows some sets I would have killed for as a kid. Particularly the samurai and mardhi revolt sets. There's one there with general Gordon and troops.
So I am now down about £120 as I found some sets of these and also a huge box set of Romans/Greeks/Persians. My mrs will kill me when they turn up!
I am going to see if I can get my son and neiphep off the xbox to help me paint them

[KAV]

OOoooooo dudes now you got me going.........
Airfix, glue (o that smell), airguns, pyro , crash , burn scenarios pissed of mums, new models, decals dipped in water to get adhesive. and on and on man that was some time....
Mq do you remember the cartoon series "på vingene" ?

I still got some airfix surivors somewhere, might have to get some pics for the forum..........

[McQ59]

Originally Posted by dkwookie

I was adicted to collecting those 1/72 scale soldiers as a kid. Napoleonic were my favourites but I used to get everything from Romans up to ww2. Mainly airfix and esci ones. Looking at that plastic soldier sites reviews shows some sets I would have killed for as a kid. Particularly the samurai and mardhi revolt sets. There's one there with general Gordon and troops.
So I am now down about £120 as I found some sets of these and also a huge box set of Romans/Greeks/Persians. My mrs will kill me when they turn up!
I am going to see if I can get my son and neiphep off the xbox to help me paint them

I just can't go there again! I used to organise battles all over the floor in my bedroom. Drove my mother completely ballistic in periods. She couldn't possibly see the strategic, and the fine organasation of the epic battles of course. To her it was the complete CHAOS. My god I hated her when I had to fix my room and clean the floor! But then again... Mothers have allways been the perfect show-stoppers. (What is it with women?!)