Quote from: get2grips on 07 September 2013, 07:46:34 PM
Didn't that have a really cool (by 7 year standards) advert?

I Don't know. We didn't have a television at that time.

Quote from: fsn on 07 September 2013, 07:50:04 PM
I Don't know. We didn't have a television at that time.

Luxury 

Quote from: get2grips on 07 September 2013, 07:47:54 PM
OMG OMG OMG the DUKW!!! 

Pic please someone!

http://www.die-cast-toys.com/plastic-soldiers/1-72/1-72b.html

I had the Robin hood castle too!

I had the airfix set of the coastal gun emplacement! I still have it actually  

But i had the 'newer' set:
https://www.google.be/search?q=airfix+gun&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:nl:official&client=firefox-a&gws_rd=cr&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=JYMrUs6QN6Sg0wWy74Aw&biw=1024&bih=583&sei=KIMrUonZIaSM1AXU6YHABg#hl=en&q=airfix+gun+emplacement&rls=org.mozilla:nl%3Aofficial&tbm=isch&um=1&facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=YMweikv4OLQMCM%3A%3BakR10vt5bEOJrM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fi.ebayimg.com%252F00%252Fs%252FMTYwMFgxMjAw%252Fz%252FxAYAAOxyu1FRj4Oc%252F%2524%28KGrHqN%252C!qMFGBSkEpSDBRj4ObB%289w~~60_35.JPG%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.ebay.co.uk%252Fitm%252FAirfix-WW2-Gun-Emplacement-06704-German-British-Paratroopers-Italeri-Revell-%252F181138932772%3B225%3B300

I believe FSN is referencing to this:

http://www.esci-diorama.com/pages/Airfix_Gun_Emplacement_Assault_Set-8573629.html

Quote from: fsn on 07 September 2013, 07:52:17 PM

http://www.die-cast-toys.com/plastic-soldiers/1-72/1-72b.html

I had the Robin hood castle too!

There she is 

Quote from: petercooman on 07 September 2013, 07:53:29 PM
I had the airfix set of the coastal gun emplacement! I still have it actually  

You still have it 

God I love this forum...I am O D ing on nostalgia 

Quote from: petercooman on 07 September 2013, 07:53:29 PM
I believe FSN is referencing to this:

Indeed it is ... this is with a M113. It's the first military thing I had bought for me. I got it for Xmas when I was about 6. Think I was specially allowed out of hospital for that Xmas.

Never looked back!

Those tank choices are so historically inaccurate, but how many of us ever noticed?

Quote from: mad lemmey on 07 September 2013, 08:02:31 PM
Those tank choices are so historically inaccurate, but how many of us ever noticed?

Centurions 2WW you mean?

Quote from: get2grips on 07 September 2013, 07:58:07 PM
You still have it 

God I love this forum...I am O D ing on nostalgia 

Yeah i had the original box in my hands just an hour or 4 ago at my folks house when i was rummaging the attic for some stuff for the little one. The original figs are lying here.

Never throw away something good :p

Quote from: petercooman on 07 September 2013, 08:06:36 PM
Yeah i had the original box in my hands just an hour or 4 ago at my folks house when i was rummaging the attic for some stuff for the little one. The original figs are lying here.

Never throw away something good :p

Awesome...I would love a find like that.   

The Millenium Falcon, Slave 1 and an AT-AT

Quote from: Uncle_Cthulu on 07 September 2013, 08:17:43 PM
The Millenium Falcon, Slave 1 and an AT-AT

They HAVE to be EVERYONE'S default.

Did everyone also know the jammy bastard who had one or more these? 

OMG so many happy memories have come flooding back . I always wanted a JCB toy that we called "a bucket on the front and a bucket on the back". I used to see it in Eden Lillies in Cambridge but sadly it was too expensive .

Quote from: Steve J on 07 September 2013, 08:20:25 PM
OMG so many happy memories have come flooding back . I always wanted a JCB toy that we called "a bucket on the front and a bucket on the back". I used to see it in Eden Lillies in Cambridge but sadly it was too expensive .

Picture picture picture.

On to google please Steve 

For me it was



when I was 8 or nine (1961/ 62).

My cousin had umpteen of these and I was desperate to get the Graf Spee which I thought looked really cool. Eventually got Achilles as a consolation because I got chicken pox and couldn't go to some show with my sister and cousins. Would far rather have had Achilles and chicken pox than go to the show tbh.

Never saw these.

I did have a massive collection of Airfix waterline models that my brother and I used to play with.  The "rules" were:

Main gun: 12" or bigger you rolled a "dobber" (fat marble) at the enemy ship.
Ancillary gun: 6"-12" you rolled a marble at the enemy ship.

Battleships could take 3 hits
Cruisers 2
Destroyers 1

I had completely forgotten this til I saw your ships  

Quote from: get2grips on 07 September 2013, 08:08:11 PM
Awesome...I would love a find like that.   

http://www.benl.ebay.be/itm/Airfix-1-72-Playset-WWII-German-GUN-EMPLACEMENT-1993-Release-Open-Box-/181194126807?pt=Model_Kit_US&hash=item2a3002f5d7

There you go, little bit expensive though 

Quote from: petercooman on 07 September 2013, 08:38:50 PM
http://www.benl.ebay.be/itm/Airfix-1-72-Playset-WWII-German-GUN-EMPLACEMENT-1993-Release-Open-Box-/181194126807?pt=Model_Kit_US&hash=item2a3002f5d7

There you go, little bit expensive though 

Yeah, just a touch 

Not the same as finding it though.   

Ha but i didn't find it, i always knew where i put it