Michael Emrys Posted October 7, 2003 Share Posted October 7, 2003 Originally posted by ColumbusOHGamer: Well, I learned at an early age (9 or 10) that if you heated up an X-acto knife, you could cut of limbs and head real easy.Parvenu. When I started playing with toy soldiers they were made out of lead and I used a woodburning tool to cut 'em up. But the most fun was to take a model airplane I was tired of and put a couple of firecrackers in it and set fire to it. Used to get some realistic-looking crash scenes that way. Then there were the ones I shot up with my BB gun... Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean Lafitte Posted October 7, 2003 Author Share Posted October 7, 2003 I was 15 years old in 1975, and that's when I started seriously reading about WWII. Of course, I had toy soldiers as a child, as did most of you. It's great that these two CM games have actually brought some new people into the hobby of reading about WWII. Military history is a great hobby. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K_Tiger Posted October 7, 2003 Share Posted October 7, 2003 But the most fun was to take a model airplane I was tired of and put a couple of firecrackers in it and set fire to it. Used to get some realistic-looking crash scenes that way. Then there were the ones I shot up with my BB gun... haha... exactly the way i stopped my model career.. I remember, i hade a battleship, not sure if it was the Scharnhorst or the Iowa class...but i know it was a Battleship with 9 guns 3x3. I found in a model store a real cheap engine hwo you can put it with a suction cup under those ships. Maybe this was more for bathroom gaming.. The next step was to open the allready builded ship and filling with fire crackers, can tell you, it wasnt the smallest ones.. then i made out of a lot igniter cord -- does exist a other word for it? a long one. To made it short...the next lake was mine...and of course, also for the ship.. I didnt know before, which exquisite pyromaniac i am.. Hollywood should hire me.. The same way i destroyed the red barons proud, a red triplane and a early WWII Henschel. I hade some other models but to destroy a StugIII never! Im a Stug lover from the first second...my Tiger one i couldn hurt also. The way to play with my little soldiers in the garden of my parents was to simulate handgrenades with those mini crackers and the replacement for a flamethrower, i used a small squirt filled with gasoline -(we found it in a abandoned scrap iron place). Its 20-25 years since...and it seems, nothing had changed.. :cool: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefly Posted October 7, 2003 Share Posted October 7, 2003 Originally posted by Jim Boggs: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Firefly: If you don't count Commando comics and Captain Hurricane (who dealt with Tigers by ripping the commanders hatch off the hinges and giving the evil Nazi TC a good old British sock on the jaw), probably around 1965-66. Are you by any chance referring to Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos? </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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