Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Box of delights

During a recent visit to Trebian's new 'Shedquarters' (I was in the area for a business meeting) mine host presented me with several boxes of 20mm WW2 toys.

So far I have sorted out some infantry - there are enough painted figures for a division each of Aussie and Jap infantry.




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17 comments:

  1. Al17 September 2013 at 11:55

    You have the coolest friends!

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  2. Tim Gow17 September 2013 at 12:06

    Al
    I shall pass that on - it may come as a shock!

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  3. Al17 September 2013 at 12:24

    lol mate, good one :)

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  4. Paul Foster17 September 2013 at 12:24

    Score!

    What are the two Cold War looking tanks in the top right of the last photo please?

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  5. Tim Gow17 September 2013 at 12:27

    Paul Foster
    The two 'mystery tanks' have been built using unknown crappy toy hulls and Airfix Grant turrets. Rumour has it that President Fred of Ph'tang has expressed an interest..... http://megablitzandmore.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/president-fred.html

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  6. Martin Rapier17 September 2013 at 12:40

    What a lot of DUKWs!

    Nice to see an Airfix 'bendy' Panther and Tiger too. They were banned from our school wargames club to avoid accelerating an already dangerous arms race.



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  7. Tim Gow17 September 2013 at 12:42

    Martin Rapier
    We had a system for penalising the bendy plastic tanks too. My friend Lee had ten of the bendy Tigers!

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  8. Archduke Piccolo17 September 2013 at 14:07

    Speaking of arms races - I'll always remamber the Sunday the boxing ring was left at the club against the wall. Absolutely irresistable. We had a little over 100 Russian tanks taking on 60-70 German.

    I commanded a force comprising my entire Soviet AFV inventory at the time (9 T34s and 4 KVs) plus 16 other assault guns and what not against 16 Germans. mainly Panthers. At the end of the day, all but 3 of the Germans were smoking wrecks; I still had 16 AFVs under command.

    One of the most fun and memorable war game days I ever had...

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  9. Tim Gow17 September 2013 at 14:18

    Archduke Piccolo
    A splendid, inspiring and not completely unfamiliar story! Great stuff.

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  10. Don M17 September 2013 at 15:09

    I see we both have acquired armor and support over the weekend, remarkable how
    consistently alined our habits are...)


    Looks to be a very nice assortment there!

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  11. Tim Gow17 September 2013 at 15:23

    Don M
    You seem to have done rather better sorting out the new toys!

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  12. Don M17 September 2013 at 15:44

    That comes from 20 years in and around the motor pool ...)

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  13. Geordie an Exiled FoG17 September 2013 at 22:59

    Good haul!

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  14. Martin Rapier19 September 2013 at 11:56

    Well, that box yielded up some fun stuff. I can now add a Porsche turret Tiger II to my Henschel turret Roco Tiger IIs.

    The Jagdtiger can join my collection of 'ridiculous German assault guns which rarely come out in a game'.






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  15. Tim Gow19 September 2013 at 11:57

    Don M
    Are the toys easier than the real thing then?

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  16. Tim Gow19 September 2013 at 11:57

    Geordie
    Not bad eh?

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  17. Tim Gow19 September 2013 at 11:58

    Martin Rapier
    I thought you'd like the heavy stuff!

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