HEY! Why the f..k don't they sell this over here? WE started it, didn't we? Oh I forgot! "Don't mention the ...."
I bought it in France last year but the company is Polish - just search Cobi toys small army World War II. Look what else you can get!
Looks like some patent on LEGO ran out; or the polish company is covered in lawsuits up over their ears... Cool design though; pretty authentic. I am an AIRFIX boy though... Once had all the armies (including Tarzan and Astronauts) Now only the 1/32s are left.
When i was a kid I used to buy a airfix airplane once a month with my pocket money, and hang them on my bedroom ceiling with fishing line .it looked like a big dogfight. I made them up first of course . They didnt look right on the ceiling in boxes
I did the same - I once set fire to one of my brothers planes and threw it out of his bedroom window. I told him it had been shot down
I guess, boys are the same all over the globe... Me and my cousin hung a DO-335 on a string from a branch of the cherry tree in our backyard. We slid a firecracker (t'was what we called Fünferkracher: so not the little farts, but something more serious) into the fuselage and lit the fuse cord while I stood by with my dad's old camera. Don't know, it was sheer luck: I exactly caught the moment, the plane blew apart. For a long time, this was one of my most treasured pictures. And then it got lost... But that moment burned into my memory no doubt. Later, I got myself another of these great planes as a model, scale 1/48 and I still have it on my bookshelf: And while I understand, why they all go crazy about the ME 109 and the Stuka, for me, this is one of the greatest designs of that period. The version here is a so called Nachtjäger (Nighthunter) with special antennas mounted to the leading edges of the wings and also a 2 seater. Also notice the push-pull-engine configuration. It was incredibly fast without creating more drag than a single engine aircraft. (Oh, I better stop, before I mention the war )
Psychological conditioning: we poor laddies fought as marines and seals in the junkyard-trenches we dug ourselves... That happens, when you loose the w.r But what the heck, it was fun fighting as a commando too I always stormed the Normandy, never defended it So guys now you can see how I ended up with a Triumph
Back to the title topic - Reading MCN this week, review of the infamous BMW textile twatsuit. He starts by saying how good it is, but then declares it is neither waterproof or thermally lined !!!! He went to an outdoor shop and bought a thermal layer so he wasn't cold !!! Around £1000 for the jacket and trousers and you have to then buy a base layer to stay warm , and it's not waterproof at all So, naming it a TWATsuit, is in fact what you would have to be, to part with a grand for a textile suit that wasn't warm or waterproof, just so you can look a proper Charlie (or Ewan) on you overpriced rusty tractor
Calling a spade a spade or Jew a Jew ....we were fighting the Nazis not the Germans Funny thing, whenever I played Colditz the Board game I was always the Germans