Anyone else remember Marx Toys wooden castles

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hello Leon

Found this in a local museum display at the weekend:

Yes I had this, the horses were in a waxy plastic (resin?) that broke easily, have a few unbroken ones left.

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[marie]

cool

[Ace of Spades]

I was about 3-4 foot long and about 2 feet wide...

You were a pretty stout fellow, weren't you Fenton?

Sorry, couldn't resist that since I had to laugh about it all the way through the rest of the comments... 

Cheers!
Rob

[Ithoriel]

I still have a box with the tanks, SP guns and aircraft from Combat! Though the board and the vinyl terrain are long since lost.

My introduction to board wargames was a game the local vicar had back in the early sixties. Hard to believe now, but in those days I was a choirboy in the local church. After choir practice the vicar and his wife were kind/ foolish enough to invite all the boy choristers back to the vicarage where we were allowed to run riot for an hour or two. They had a game not unlike Combat! but with cardboard counters of infantry, tanks and artillery and a printed map board.

Hadn't thought about it for years (possibly decades) and then last year I was at the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow for a talk about their collection of WW2 stuff and there was a modern reproduction of the game, done about 50% bigger for display purposes, on show in the section on children's wartime games.

Of course never thought to take a note of what it was called or who produced it

[Ithoriel]

Also, on the German and British Airfix sets. Took me ages to find out why some Germans troops had been issued with pogo sticks 

[get2grips]

Also, on the German and British Airfix sets. Took me ages to find out why some Germans troops had been issued with pogo sticks 

I remember that one: weird looking weapon.  Was it accurate?

[fsn]

Up to about 100m I think.